USPFO-MS, Attn: NGMS-PFO-PC, 144 Military Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 39208-8860

69 -- ARMOR TARGET SYSTEM Sol DAHA22-95-B-0003. Due 061295. POC USPFO-MS, Attn: Maj Bobby C. Thornton, Contracting Officer, 144 Military Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 39208-8860, telephone number (601) 936-7502. This procuremet will be accomplished using Two Step Sealed Bidding. Armor Target System consisting of 10 target carriers, 8 wireless remote controllers, 5 target carrier storage buildings, 4 target carrier transport trailers, installation and training. Target carrier shall be capable of raising and lowering, as well as moving any of the full-scale, standard NATO, side view tank targets. Carrier shall be remotely controlled during use and manually controlled for storage and set up. Carrier shall be self-propelled and travel on standard gauge railroad rails (56 1/2'' inside width between rails). A programmable controller shall be furnished which allows the operator to command direction of travel, target expose/conceal (pop-up) and hit attributes. Carrier storage buildings shall be constructed on the existing carrier tracks or pre-fabricated and installed on the existing carrier tracks. The buildings shall be of a design that is sufficient to allow one carrier to be manually parked inside for storage (without target) and can enter or exit either end of the building. Building access doors shall provide a means to secure the carriers (by padlock) from vandalism during periods when the carrier is not in use. Construction materials shall be of a type to withstand weathering and require little or no maintenance. Buildings shall be constructed or installed on a concrete footing foundation to be provided by the contractor. The carrier transport trailers shall be of a design and construction that allows for simple, safe loading/unloading of the carrier to and from the rail, can be towed using existing fleet vehicles (3/4 ton truck/HMMV) connected by a pintle hook, and the trailers shall be able to be towed with or without carrier safely traveling a minimum of 35 miles per hour. This procurement shall be accomplished using Two-Step Sealed Bidding. Step One: Unpriced technical proposals are due at the USPFO-MS, Attn: NGMS-PFO-PC, 144 Military Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 39208-8860 by 4:00 PM local time, 12 June 1995. Request for Technical Proposals, which will include the statement of work will be available 12 May 1995. Evaluation criteria used to determine acceptability of Technical Proposals in order of priority is as follows: 1. Availability of Spare parts on the open market; 2. Number of Armor Target Systems currently in use by the U.S. Military; 3. Delivery Schedule; 4. Controller programmability, ie., number of scenarios that can be programmed into the controller; 5. Transport Trailer design, ie., ease of loading and offloading carrier to trailer. Step Two: Only bids based upon technical proposals determined to be acceptable, either initially or as a result of discussions, will be considered for award and each bid in the second step must be based on the bidders own technical proposal. Offerors should submit proposals that are acceptable without additional explanation or information. The Government may make a final determination regarding a proposal's acceptability solely on the basis of the proposal as submitted. The Government may proceed with the second step without requesting further information from any offeror; however, the Government may request additional information from offerors of proposals that it considers reasonably susceptible of being made acceptable, and may discuss proposals with their offerors. A notice of unacceptability will be forwarded to the offeror upon completion of the proposal evaluation and final determination of unacceptablity. Multiple technical proposals may be submitted. Numbered Note 1 applies to this procurement. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this procurement is 3949. The applicable small business size standard is 500 employees. Interested parties should request a copy of the solicitation which will be available on 12 May 1995. (109)

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