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A -- PRECISION MUNITIONS LOGISTICS STUDY (PMLS) SOL DAAH01-99-PMLS DUE 060199 POC Barbara K. Jones, Contracting Officer, AMSAM-AC-SS-CC, (256) 876-1299 The purpose of this notice is to announce a Request for Information (RFI) by the U.S. Army to obtain information and determine the existence of sources for the Army Study Program Precision Munitions and Logistics Study (PMLS). This study is to analyze and quantify the benefits of modern Precision Muitions (PMs) with the objective of incorporating the results into the Army Programming, Planning, and Budgeting Process. The objective of PMLS is to qualitatively and quantitatively assess warfighting benefits (Speed of Defeat, Blue Force Survivability, Reduced Collateral Damage, Commander's Risk Management) and quantify total Life Cycle Cost (LOC) of PMs and non-PMs mixes and ammunition logistics workload burdens on the future battlefields in order to influence the Army munitions programming processes for investments in Research Development and Acquisition (RDA) of Precision Munitions, and Procurement of Ammunition, Army (PAA). PMLS will determine peacetime costs directly attributable to munitions development, acquisition, CONUS receipt, storage, issue, transportation, sustainment, training and demilitarization for the two representative mixes of the PMLS Base and Improved Cases. Wartime driven costs are associated with strategic, operational and tactical ammunition logistics requirements. PMLS will develop ammunition logistics requirements in terms of units, equipment, and facilities to receive, store and issue ammunition. Some of the areas that are covered include munitions, facilities and transportation, Revolution in Military Logistics, enablers for ammunition and missile distribution. This study will not determine the costs dealing with the business infrastructure and other elements of DoD Total Ownership Cost (DoD-TOC) or actual warfighting costs, or costs avoided. As part of this study, Subject Matter Experts (SME) will be called upon to review analyses and results. Industry is requested to provide information in corporate format papers, publications, briefings and analyses of interest to the PMLS StudyGroup that is related to the warfighting benefits and the logistics workload associated with increasing the use of PMs on the battlefield. The RFI is estimated to be released on 30 April 1999 and can be accessed electronically through the AMCOM Acquisition Center (AC) Website at https://wwwproc.redstone.army.mil/acquisition/. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Forms Plug-Ins, and/or Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to access the AC Website. If you currently do not have these programs, you may install them at the AC Website QuickStart Instruction Page at http://www.redstone.army.mil/acq ctr/prepage.html. Once at the AC Website, select "Contracting Information System (CIS)." Then select "Attachments and Exhibits." At the next screen, select "DAAH01-99-PMLS." Then select the file name "PMLS." The RFI will not be issued in hardcopy format. It must be noted that the RFI is to obtain information and identify potential sources only. It does not constitute a request for proposal (RFP), and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S. Government. Posted 04/29/99 (W-SN325849). (0119)

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