US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000

10 -- INFRARED (IR) ILLUMINATING HAND GRENADE SOL DAAE30-98-R-0400 DUE 032598 POC Bonnie Holland, Contract Specialist, 973-724-2005 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Bonnie Holland, bholland@pica.army.mil. The US Army TACOM-ARDEC has a requirement for a non-developmental item (NDI) to provide illumination for friendly forces equipped with night vision devices. The IR illuminating grenade will be employed by individual soldiers in close combat to mark friendly ground positions and threat targets for signaling, and for use in military operations in built-up areas by providing IR illumination in dark rooms and tunnels. This grenade can also be rigged as a trip flare, warn- ing device, or for employment in decoy operations. The resultant contract will be a firm fixed price type for 1,000 units, with an additional 20 inerts and 34 modi- fied, also there will be an option for up to an additional 17,000 units. A draft Request for Proposal (RFP) shall be disseminated through the Internet (address: "http://procnet.pica.army.mil"), issued for industry review and comment. The significant sections of the draft shall be posted as they become available. Any and all comments to the draft would be appreciated within (10) days of their issuance. Upon issuance of the Final Request for Proposal any prospective offeror will be required to submit 50 test samples within sixty (60) days from date of publication of the RFP, at no cost to the Government. Test samples will be subjected to technical testing and as such will be evaluated and scored in accordance with the required evaluation criteria that will be set forth in the RFP. All responses to this notice shall be done so in writing in the English language. See numbered Note 26. (0069)

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