U.S. Army, C4IEW Acquisition Center, Contract Operations - VHFS, ATTN: AMSEL-ACVF-C-AK, Vint Hill Farms Station, Warrenton, VA 22186- 5172

58 -- TROJAN MONITOR CONTROL GROUP (MCG++) ENHANCED RETROFIT KITS SOL DAAB10-95-B-R018 DUE 101395 POC Mary Neal, Contract Specialist, 540-349-5682/Emily Koebig, Contracting Officer, 540-349-5701. One each TROJAN Upgrade Kit to include all labor, facilities, and material, except for Government Procured Equipment (GPE), to conduct program management, fabrication, assembly, integration, test and evaluation, and packaging. Options include all labor, facilities, and material, except for GPE, to conduct program management, fabrication, assembly, integration, test and evaluation, and packaging of additional TROJAN Upgrade Kits. The requirement will be a ''build-to-print'' effort using both GPE and Contractor Furnished Equipment (CFE) assembled IAW Government Furnished Information (GFI) Technical Data Package (TDP) and acceptance tested IAW a GFI Acceptance Test Procedure (ATPr). Assembly of the upgrade kit IAW the TDP will include some modification of GPE and some assembly of GPE and CFE elements. The first upgrade kit will be packaged and shipped to the Government for engineering evaluation. Upon exercise of options, remaining upgrade kits will be produced, acceptance tested, and shipped to installation destinations. Initial delivery will be F.O.B. Destination, VHFS, Warrenton, VA as follows: Basic contract - 1 ea 120 days after date of award document; Options - 27 ea 120 days after date of option exercise; all 28 to include Warranty. This procurement shall be set aside for small businesses, utilizing Two-Step Formal Advertising to result in a Firm-Fixed Price type contract. Step One will consist of a letter Request for Technical Proposals, the closing date of which has been estimated above. Only one technical proposal may be submitted by each offeror in response to Step One and shall not include prices or pricing information. The technical proposals will be evaluated IAW the criteria set forth as follows. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by technical personnel appointed for this procurement who will categorize each proposal as (1) Acceptable; (2) Reasonably susceptible of being made acceptable by additional information clarifying or supplementing, but not basically changing the proposal as submitted; or (3) In all other cases, unacceptable. Any proposal which modifies, or fails to conform to the essential requirements or specifications of the request for technical proposals shall be considered nonresponsive and categorized as unacceptable. If the Contracting Officer determines that there are sufficient proposals in category (1) to assure adequate price competition, and if further time, effort, and delay to make additional proposals acceptable and thereby increase competition would not be in the Government's best interest, he may proceed directly with Step Two. Otherwise, the Contracting Officer shall request bidders under proposals in category (2) above to submit additional information, setting forth to the extent practicable the nature of the deficiencies in the proposal as submitted or the nature of the additional information required. The Contracting Officer may also arrange and conduct discussions for this purpose; however, offerors should submit proposals that are acceptable without additional information or explanation, as the Government may make a final determination regarding proposal's acceptability solely on the basis of the proposal as submitted. Further, the Government may proceed with the second step without requesting further information from the offeror. In order to be given an overall rating of acceptable under Step One, the Contractor's proposal must be found acceptable in each of the following factors. All factors are equally weighted: (1) Factor 1, Approach: An internally consistent, comprehensive, and compliant approach to the requirements. (2) Factor 2, Resources: Personnel, facilities, and equipment identified, of appropriate quantity and capability, available to the offeror, to meet the requirements. Upon completion of evaluation of technical proposals submitted under Step One, Step Two (Invitation for Bids) will be issued only to those sources whose technical proposals have been evaluated and determined to be acceptable under Step One. 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 bidder's own technical proposal. A notice of unacceptability will be forwarded to offerors upon completion of the proposal evaluation and after final determinations of unacceptability are made. Award will be made to the lowest priced, technically acceptable proposal and responsible offeror. Interested parties should submit written requests within ten days (fax 540-349-5697). Requests must identify that firms qualify as a small business concern under SIC 3663 (not to exceed 750 employees). All responsible small businesses may submit a proposal under Step One which shall be considered by the agency. See Numbered Note(s): 1. (0237)

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