Directorate of Subsistence, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Attn: DPSC-HROI, 700 Robbins Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111

89 -- SUBSISTENCE INDUSTRIAL BASE EXTENSION(IBEX) SOL SPO300-99-I-7015 DUE 102999 POC Elaine Nines, Industrial Specialist, 215-737-8052, Kevin Burke, Contracting Officer, 215-737-7532 E-MAIL: click here to contact primary point of contact, enines@dscp.dla.mil. The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Operational Rations Commodity Business Unit(CBU)is interested in comments from industry regarding developing and accessing commercial market information to maintain visibility over logistical capability outside the continental United States (OCONUS)in support of the military service's wartime subsistence field feeding plan. DSCP is primarily interested in purchasing a periodically issued printed report of information about the awardee's own operations, commercial agreements and capacity to supply, store, transport and/or assemble rations or the components of rations. However, DSCP will also consider the possibility of buying a report that goes beyond the awardee's own operations and surveys supply, storage, tranport and assembly capabilities that are available but lie outside the awardee's existing business network in a given country or region. This initiative is referred to as a Subsistence IBex. It is a planning tool with the purpose of acquiring information for use by the DSCP Industrial Base Program Manager to make certain decisions regarding industrial base investments. The IBex program objectives are (1) to purchase logistical information on commercial food assets, facilities, equipment and personnel available withing the European and Asian markets, (2) to improve the ability of the European and Asian commercial sectors to respond to the mobilization needs of the U.S. Government in the event of a surge in military requirements and (3) to reduce the overall costs to the government involved in planning and maintaining visibility over commercial logistics, storage and transportation information throughout Europe and Asia. The European market includes certain areas in Africa and the Middle East. The Request for Information (RFI)and Statement of Work (SOW)is issued to obtain market research information for a planned acquisition to maintain visibility over logistical capability. The proposed contract requirements are as follows: (1) Contingency Management Reports, (2) Participate and Assist the Government in Testing this New Concept and (3) Participate in Government/Industry Process Review Meetings. Posted 09/01/99 (W-SN375172). (0244)

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