U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

61 -- HIGH PERFORMANCE LITHIUM BATTERIES SOL DAAB07-99-R-A271 POC Diane Grim(Contract Specialist) 732-532-5558; John Adamitis(Contracting Officer), 732-532-3473 WEB: click here for Business Opportunities Page, http://abop.monmouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: click here to contact POC, grim@mail1.monmouth.army.mil. The item being procured is entitled "High Performance Lithium Battery" for non-rechargeable lithium batteries, BA-X567A/U, NSN 6135-01-447-5082 and BA-X800A/U, NSN 6135-01-440-7774. This solicitation will result in a Firm Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity type contract, consisting of three (3) program years. Delivery orders will be issued to procure the required batteries. Pricing will be in range quantities as specified in the solicitation. The contractor shall produce the items in accordance with the SOW and MIL-PRF-49471A(CR). The batteries will be procured in packages. There are 12 each per package for the BA-X567A/U and 8 each per package for the BA-X800A/U. FOB point for the batteries is Origin. The minimum quantity is 20,000 packages for the BA-X567A/U and 7,600 packages for the BA-X800A/U. The potential maximum quantity is 66,000 packages for the BA-X567A/U and 46,800 packages for the BA-X800A/U. The solicitation contains Government and Contractor First Article Testing requirements and a warranty provision. The solicitation also contains an option for Direct Vendor Delivery. The solicitation will be issued as a Request for Proposal and the procurement will be conducted using Best Value procedures. In an effort to develop a second source for this battery, the Government is conducting this acquisition IAW FAR 6.202, Full and Open Competition after exclusion of sources. The excluded source from the acquisition is the current producer under Contract DAAB07-96-D-G017. The draft solicitation, DAAB07-99-R-A271, and all attachments have been posted to the Business Opportunities Page at http://abop.monmouth.army.mil. This draft solicitation is forecasted to become final 15 days after this notice; however, changes to the draft solicitation and attachments will be posted on the BOP. The date the solicitation becomes final will be posted to the BOP. It is the contractor's responsibility to monitor the BOP for these changes. Submission of the Performance Risk portion of the proposal will be submitted fourteen (14) days prior to the proposed due date. Posted 07/12/99 (W-SN352845). (0193)

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