M109 FAMILY OF VEHICLES -- INFORMATION EXCHANGE PAPER The US Army TACOM-ARDEC Acquisition Center and the Product Manager for Paladin/FAASV intend to issue an Information Exchange Paper (IEP) regarding the Fleet Management concept for the M109 Family of Vehicles (FOV). The purpose of the paper is to generate comments/questions from industry (both current and prospective suppliers), end users, Government entities and other interested parties regarding the feasibility of establishing a Fleet Manager (FM) as the single world class focal point for the M109 FOV life-cycle sustainment support. The Army plans to investigate the integration of the M109 FOV supply, engin- eering and limited life cycle support functions by having one point of contact and focal point for all M109 FOV life-cycle program management and weapon system support. Using the information gained from this exchange, the Government will consider its requirements and the concepts to develop a draft solicitation to allow the Army to gather information and assess the viability of the FM concept as aprecursor to decisions on FM implementation. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION and a foreign disclosure review has yet to be conducted to determine eligibility of foreign bidders for future procurement. Interested parties cannot expect to receive any information regarding Fleet Management beyond what is contained therein. The paper should be available at the following Internet addresses by COB 6/5/98: http://www.pica.army.mil/orgs/paladin/fleet or http://procnet. army.mil. Respondees to this paper may or may not receive Government com- met back to their questions. Specific replies will be decided on a case by case basis by the Government Fleet Management team. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO HARD COPIES ISSUED OF THIS IEP, NOR WILL ANY PHONE REQUESTS FOR SAME BE HONORED. WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/procacts.htm. E-MAIL: Mr. Robert McMinn, rmcminn@pica.army.mil.

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