Commander, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Acquisition Center, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280

R -- APACHE PRIME VENDOR SUPPORT SOL DAAH23-98-R-A001 DUE 032998 POC Contact Bruce J. Metzger, Contracting Officer, AMSAM-AC-AV-C, 205-842-8085. The U.S. Army intends to enter into negotiations with Team Apache Systems (TAS) for a complete business process re-engineering of the Apache Helicopter Logistics System. This acquisition is titled Apache Prime Vendor Support (PVS). TAS is a limited liability company comprised of Boeing Company's McDonnell-Douglas Helicopter Company and Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missile Company. Only TAS which is comprised of the system developers and producers of the Apache System is capable of performing this requirement. The proposed requirement is sole source to TAS. TAS intends to locate its operations in Huntsville Alabama upon award of a contract. The current TAS address is 5000 East McDowell Road, Mesa Arizona 85215. The re-engineering of the Apache Logistics process is the transfer of the Government's logistics integration function for the Apache system from the Government to TAS. These logistics functions include portions of the following functions: requirements determination, planning, and management; acquisition of parts, inventory management, and distribution/transportation management; depot repair support and services; configuration management and engineering support; worldwide field technical and supply support. The contract will be a one year contract with four one year priced options and will include a phase in transition period. The award is subject to Agency approval that the negotiated contract provides the Government with cost savings and/or service improvements over present operations, as well as Army compliance with all applicable Federal cost comparison statutes and regulations. As part of this process, the Army will consider whether Apache PVS rises to the level of a privatization which does not trigger OMB Circular A-76, or merits the execution of an agency cost comparison waiver. The contract will require the contractor to comply with the statutory requirements for continued Government depot operations. The business process re-engineering will require TAS, as part of their management responsibility, to sub-contract to the maximum extent practicable in order to continue to compete items that the Government has competed and to incorporate Government bidders lists into their bidders list and assure these bidders of the opportunity to continue to compete for items, and to continue to set aside for small businesses those items which the Government has set aside for small business. See Numbered Note(s): 22, 25. (0300)

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