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

13 -- IGNITION SYSTEM SOL DAAE30-98-R-0547 DUE 080498 POC Sandra LaBell, Contracting Officer, 973-724-4085 WEB: US ARMY TACOM-ARDEC Procurement Network, http://procnet.pica.army.mil/cbd/RFP/98R0547/98R0547.htm. E-MAIL: Sandra LaBell, slabell@pica.army.mil. The U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC intends to solicit and negotiate with Bofors Weapons System AB, Sweden. This action is based on the sole source aproval under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 and DFAR 206.302-1 (a)(3)(b). This action is for the manufacture and delivery of Bofor's ignition system with a basic buy and two options as follows: Basic Quantity: one thousand six hundred (1,600); Option 1 -- one thousand six hundred fifty (1,650); and Option 2 which the Government may award one of the following: 2A -- four thousand (4,000), 2B -- six thousand (6,000), 2C -- twelve thousand (12,000), 2D -- twenty thousand (20,000) or 2E -- twenty five thousand (25,000) ignition systems per month. Deliver is required at a minimal rate of one thousand (1,000) ignition systems per month for the basic and option 1 quantities and a minimal rate of two thousand (2,000) ignition systems per month for options 2A and 2B and for Options 2C, 2D and 2E will require a minimal rate of two thousand five hundred (2,500)ignition system per month. A technical data pakage does not exist for this requirement. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. See Number Note 22 and 26. Posted 07/20/98 (D-SN225857). (0201)

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