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19 -- NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE RIGID INFLATABLE BOAT (NSW RIB) SOL USZA22-96-R-0003 DUE 010896 POC Marc D. Tormey (813)840-5457, LCDR Chris Paddock, Contracting Officer This announcement is released to modify the NSW RIB requirement published in the August 14, 1995 issue of the CBD under solicitation USZA22-95-R-0045. This modification alters six sentences in the original synopsis, and delineates the solicitation issuance procedures. Offerors should assume that any sentences not altered by this synopsis modification still apply to this requirement. The modification follows: (1) The USSOCOM requirement includes an estimated fifty-four (54) NSW RIBs, fifty-four (54) trailers, twenty-seven (27) Detachment Deployment Packages (DDP), plus provisions for additional replacement craft thereafter. (2) Offerors must have a proven, mature design in that the parent craft must have been built and operated in the water, and the proposed craft rigid hull shall not deviate by more than ten percent in length and beam from the parent craft. (3) Period I, a full and open, unrestricted competition will result in the award of at least two contracts for one test article each to be delivered twenty-two weeks after award. (4) The anticipated quantity is an estimated fifty-four boats. (5) Delete in its entirety, ''The required delivery rate capability of two per month must be clearly demonstrated by the contractor.'' and replace with, ''The offeror must have recently (since January 1991) demonstrated its capability to build craft of equal or greater complexity at production rates similar to that anticipated in the contract.'' (6) The anticipated release date for the formal RFP is October 25, 1995, with the due date approximately seventy-two (72) days thereafter. (7) Solicitation issuance procedures: The Government will issue the RFP in one of three ways to each offeror - (1) Offeror can pick up at SOCOM (MacDill AFB, Building 102, 2nd floor), (2) Government will mail (first class mail), or (3) Government will mail overnite if offeror provides its account number. Each offeror who responded to the August 14 synopsis must notify one of the above POCs of its preference NLT COB October 18, 1995 (FAX (813) 840-5481 or phone request is acceptable). If no response is receive, the Government will mail the RFP first-class. The RFP (less attachments) will also be issued on the SOCOM Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB Telephone number: (813) 840-5578; Data bits: 8; Stop bits: 1; Parity: None; BAUD: 2400 or greater; Terminal: ANSI BBS). (0278)

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