A -- ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM This notice constitutes the Purchase Order (PO) award announcement on the Anti-Personnel Landmine Alternative (APLA) Program as a result of the Government's call for White Papers. On 5 November 1997 the Government issued a synopsis seeking sources to support the APLA program. The program consisted of two separate and distinct alternatives, the Non-Self Destruct Anti-Personnel Landmine (NSD-APL) and the Pursuit Deterrent Munition (PDM). The announcement requested that interested parties submit their proposed concept for these alternatives by way of a ten page white paper. White papers were received on 4 December 1997. To help defray proposal preparation expenses, multiple POs, of approximately $100K each, were to be awarded to those firms offering the best concepts in support of the NSD-APL and PDM alternatives. On 11 December 1997 the Government determined that it did not want to pursue the PDM alternative at this time. It was determined to complete the evaluation of all white papers and rank them in accordance with the predetermined weighted evaluation criteria. It was determined, that as a result of this new strategy, POs would only be awarded for the best NSD-APL concepts. The evaluation results on the PDM concepts will be put aside and used if the decision is made to pursue PDM at a later date. The following are the awardees of the POs for the NSD-APL concepts: Three (3) POs to Alliant Techsystems Inc., 600 Second Street NE, Hopkins, MN 44343-8384. ASR International Corporation, 315 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY 11788. Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, 902 Battelle Blvd., PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352. Business Plus Corp. of NJ, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 233, Denville, NJ 07834. Foster Miller Inc., 350 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA 02154-1196. Ratheon Electronics Systems, 180 Harwell Road, Bedford, MA 01730-2498. Science & Technology Assoc. Inc., 4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203. Two (2) POs awarded to Textron Systems Corporation, 201 Lowell Street, Wilmington, MA 01887. Tracor Aerospace, 6500 Tracor Lane, Austin, TX 78725-2070. WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Jeffrey M. Boyle, jboyle@pica.army.mil.

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