SOURCES SOUGHT
54 -- Industrial Base Study
- Notice Date
- 10/17/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - WRN (W56HZV)(DTA), 6501 EAST 11 MILE ROAD, Warren, Michigan, 48397-5000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV18R0021
- Archive Date
- 11/16/2017
- Point of Contact
- Michelle L. Barron, Phone: 5862820944
- E-Mail Address
-
michelle.l.barron8.civ@mail.mil
(michelle.l.barron8.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PURPOSE: The Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support requirements for industrial base assessments and studies. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. BACKGROUND: Significant capability, capacity, and cost impacts are being placed on defense programs. These impacts could in the short term have dire consequences to manufacturers, resulting in major losses of critical industrial base sectors and suppliers along with potentially impacting core workload at depots and arsenals. PEO GCS and U.S. Army policymakers must develop overarching strategies that will sustain, preserve and retain the defense industrial base. SCOPE: PEO GCS is contemplating awarding multiple task orders for varying industrial base projects described below. The effort will involve extremely detailed and complex analyses through multiple layers of data, reports and studies held at a multitude of Original Equipment Manufacturers' (OEM's) sites, PEOs, arsenals, depots, other U.S. Army and Department of Defense (DOD) agencies, and the multiple tiered vendor bases supporting each of these organizations. The data gained from these requirements will provide the PEO and/or the U.S. Army with the ability to independently assess current state and reduce or prioritize the budget across the Army's industrial base. Areas of potential Government and/or industry assessment include but are not limited to the following: 1. Strategic planning, program evaluation, monitoring and measurement 2. Assessments determining financial health, viability and competitiveness 3. Engineering Analysis, capabilities and risk of loss 4. Should cost training and development 5. Commonality studies 6. Assessments of facilities 7. Improvement Plans for Government and industry facilities 8. Reset of manufacturing production lines 9. Ameliorate facility shutdown, or facility efficient restart, or facility alternative production assessments 10. Labor skill assessments 11. Identification, retention and maintenance studies of critical labor categories 12. Cost, capacity, and capability assessments or affordability assessments 13. Current state assessments, bench marking, and scenario analysis 14. Supply, maintenance, logistics or Organic network strategies 15. Organic or supplier assessments 16. Studies on the impact of schedule and force structure across the industrial base 17. Strategies for program cost reductions, organization, processes, design affordability and acquisitions 18. Analysis of Alternatives 19. Identification of cost reduction opportunities to include material, labor, overheads, collaborative material sourcing, vendor deep dives, maintenance, commodity sourcing, affordability initiates, strategies and implementation plans 20. Government, OEM, vendor efficiency and/or effectiveness studies 21. Restructure, transformation and infrastructure assessments 22. Strategic sourcing assessments 23. Cost modeling or cost structures 24. Specification streamlining and analysis 25. Scenario analyses, network strategy planning, actionable recommendations, implementation plans, risk mitigation plans and communication plans. 26. Arsenal work loading INSTRUCTIONS: If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1. Organization name, address, email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; 2. Tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements; and 3. Notional scheme(s) of support to meet the requirements. The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to: a) Provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; b) Secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform assessments; c) Implement a successful project management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel and risk mitigation; d) Demonstrate capability to support follow on analyses to prior PEO GCS assessments; e) Ability to conduct and develop detailed DOD oriented business cases that provide decisions for ACAT I-III programs; f) Experience with analyzing Depots and Arsenal capabilities, capacities, costs and processes; g) Development of performance based logistic approaches and strategies; h) Ability in optimizing facilities across a manufacturing enterprise; i) Proficiency in cross functional cost analysis of commercial and DOD firms using should cost, benchmarking and parametric estimating, WITH NO vendor input; j) Proficiency in mapping and assessing complex industrial networks and their interrelationship at multiple supplier levels; k) Ability to develop strategic alternatives for organic or industrial base networks for current and future requirements; l) Proficiency in developing program cost reductions strategies (material, processes, acquisitions, affordability). Responses should be no more than ten pages in length. A page is defined as 8.5 X 11, 12 pt, and Times New Roman font. PEO GCS invites potential firms to submit responses as a digital copy (pdf) to Michelle Barron (michelle.l.barron8.civ@mail.mil) no later than 1 November 2017 at 1600 hours local time (Eastern Daylight Time - EDT). Please confirm receipt of your statement before the deadline in order to be considered. DISCLAMER: THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. PEO GCS is hereby seeking information from interested parties to perform non-personal services mentioned above. The intent of this Sources Sought is to request capability statements from interested parties. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government is under no obligation to issue a solicitation or to award any contract on the basis of this synopsis. The Government will not pay for any information solicited. No evaluation letters or results will be issued to the respondents. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized on FedBizOpps. It is the potential firm's responsibility to monitor the site for the release of further information. The Government intends to review all responses submitted by Industry and may use this data to refine requirements. The United States Government (USG) acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. §1905: The Trade Secrets Act to protect confidential information provided to the USG. Pursuant to this statute, the USG is willing to accept proprietary restrictions placed upon data presented in response to this survey and to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure, subject to the following: • Data must be in writing and be clearly marked PROPRIETARY and be accompanied by an explanatory text so that the Government is clearly notified on what data is proprietary. • Mark as proprietary only data that is truly confidential and to which there is a legal property right • Do not mark data that is already in the public domain or is already in possession of the USG or third parties on an unclassified basis. Do not mark data that us available to the USG or to the public without restriction from another source. • Do not submit any classified data in response to this market survey. Proprietary data transmitted electronically must have the PROPRIETARY legend on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail as well as at the beginning of the file. Proprietary information contained within the correspondence shall use the legends: "PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS" and "PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS." BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/MARKET RESEARCH, THIS REQUIREMENT MAY BE SET-ASIDE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES OR PROCURED THROUGH FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION, and multiple awards MAY be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.
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