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

13 -- ADVANCED TUNGSTEN 120MM APFSDS CARTRIDGE SOL DAAE30-98-R-0611 DUE 052298 POC Rick Burdett, Contracting Officer, (973) 724-3871 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Richard A.Burdett, rburdett@pica.army.mil. The US Army is seeking sources to produce 120mm Advanced Tungsten Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot (APFSDS) cartridges for sale to the Arab Republic of Egypt. The Egyptian Advanced Tungsten KE program includes qualification of a 120mm Tungsten APFSDS tank ammunition cartridge for use in the Abrams tank system and subsequent production of a quantity of 10,000 cartridges. Sources must provide technical details of any 120mm Tungsten APFSDS cartridge configuration which would be proposed under a future Request for Proposal (RFP). This market survey is being conducted to identify all suitable configuration options for this program. Conceptual designs / proposals will not be considered. The US Army will only consider configurations that have been previously manufactured and tested. The Advanced Tungsten for Egypt program has several unique constraints. 1) The Arab Republic of Egypt has identified a minimum armor penetration requirement against Rolled Homogeneous Armor (RHA) for the Advanced Tungsten program. 2) The United States Army has established criteria to govern export of APFSDS tank ammunition with Tungsten penetrators. 3) Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSAA) policy is that any program funded by Foreign Military Funds (FMF) must contain predominately United States content. All sources must include the following information to allow their proposed configuration to be considered as a suitable candidate and demonstrate compliance with program constraints. a) Drawing depicting cartridge and packaging components. Sufficient details and dimensions must be included to allow a technical evaluation of the configuration. b) A synopsis of how the cartridge design was acquired. If the design uses US Army technology, acquired from Rheinmetall under license, appropriate permission from Rheinmetall to utilize 120mm technology on a non-Type Classified cartridge must be included. If the design includes technology not covered by the above, permission to use this technology for export to Egypt must be included. c) A listing of vendors and the components those vendors will be manufacturing. d) Ballistic test results, including TID, velocity, and gun chamber pressure at extreme (high / low) and ambient temperatures. e) Armor penetration test results, including target description, striking velocity, impact yaw and penetration depth. The US Army will provide all responding sources with a brief assessment of their proposed design. This assessment will indicate whether the design meets the performance requirements established by Egypt and the US Army, whether the source / configuration is a candidate for this program, and additional contractor testing which might be required prior to award of a future contract. All responsible sources should submit the information indicated above by 4:30 p.m. on 22 May 1998 to US Army TACOM-ARDEC, attn: AMSTA-AR-PC-F, (Mr. Rick Burdett), Building 9, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000. Responses should include technical and contracting points of contact. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the US Army. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. (0128)

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