CECOM Acquisition Center, Ground Support Branch, AMSEL-AC-WB-B, 10109 Gridley Road, Suite 200, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5843

A -- MARKET SURVEY FOR A NON-DEVELOPMENTAL SURVIVABLE VEHICLE MOUNTED MINE DETECTOR DUE 112596 POC Kelly Sherbond, Project Engineer, 703-704-2448 Peggy A. Melanson, Contracting Officer, 703-704-2168. The Countermine Division, CECOM Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate, Fort Belvoir, VA, is seeking sources for a developed, operationally tested, integrated sensor-vehicle system which is field ready for survivable vehicle mounted mine detection. Suppliers must have experience developing and manufacturing metallic mine detectors and mine resistant vehicles. Suppliers must have proven production processes and facilities for production of a limited number of vehicles. This must be a non-developmental system with availability of systems for acceptance testing 120 days after a signed contractual agreement with the Government. A contract award is anticipated as early as July 1997. The following elements are requirements of the vehicle mounted system for consideration in this survey. Only those systems that clearly meet the 9 elements will be considered. (1) an integrated sensor-vehicle system supporting road clearing operations, (2) a detector with a three meter path width and self-nulling and discriminating detection capabilities, (3) a Probability of Detection (Pd) of .90 for buried metallic mines and mines with low-metallic content on unpaved roads, (4) real time data processing and data presentation which provides a display to the operator and then marks the mine location with an integrated mine-marking capability, mine markers shall be visible day and night, (5) blast protection for the vehicle operator/crew against overpressure, shock, and fragmentation from mine blasts, (6) a support concept allowing the operator/crew to restore the vehicle and sensor system in place to its operational capability within one hour after sustaining a mine blast, (7) commercial technical manuals in English enabling the operator/crew to repair and service the system, (8) an operator/crew training plan for Career Management Field (CMF) 12B Combat Engineer skill levels, and (9) human factors engineering and safety features which are consistent with standard commercial practices and which are adaptable for use by the U.S. Army through either training, technical manuals, or labeling features. The Army is also interested in redundant capabilities, proofing and other methods which ensure that mines which escape detection by the sensor are neutralized. Written responses to this Market Survey for Survivable Vehicle Mounted Mine Detection System are DUE 25 November 1996 to US Army CECOM Night Vision Directorate, AMSEL-RD-NV-CD-MD, ATTN: Kelly Sherbondy, 10221 Burbeck Road, Suite 430, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5806. There is no specific format for responses. Elements 1 through 9 above must thoroughly be addressed by respondents and supporting evidence must be provided. The evidence provided must include results of recent (within the last year) independent operational testing and evaluation and survivability testing with real mine blasts. Independent operational testing and evaluation is defined as testing of production representative end-items with representative soldiers in conditions representative of the mission profile by an organization independent of the developer which is chartered to provide such assessments. Reports of survivability testing with real mine blasts shall be provided in a classified annex to the formal response to this survey. Classification procedures should follow standard industrial security practices. This is a correction of the CBD notice published on 18 October 1996. (0298)

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