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A -- MINE PROTECTED CLEARANCE VEHICLE FOREIGN COMPARATIVE TEST PROGRAM DUE 112399 POC Patricia Davis, 703-325-1713 WEB: Click here to connect to the Business Opportunity Page, abop.monmouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to send email to the Contract Specialist., pdavis@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. The US Army Project Manager for Mines, Countermine and Demolitions, Countermine Division, has received approval from the Department of Defense to initiate the Foreign Comparative Test Program for the Mine Protected Clearance Vehicle (MPCV) in Fiscal Year 2000. The two candidate systems are the CASSPIR MKII Vehicle, refurbished by MECHEM in South Africa and sold by LNY Inc. and the LION II developed by MECHEM in South Africa and sold by Technical Solutions Group. The candidates are non-developmental (in production or fielded) vehicle platforms with landmine neutralization capability designed to operate in an Anti-Tank and Anti-Personnel Landmine environment. These platforms must provide the highest level of protection for crew and passengers (operator, commander, and up to 6 additional personnel) survivability against an AT Landmine encounters equivalent to 30 pounds TNT. System must have ballistic protection equal to or greater than 7.62 NATO Ball. The mine neutralization portion of this system will beused to discriminate between real and falsely marked mine locations and must be able to remove or destroy all marked mines. The operator-controlled neutralizer will also be able to place an explosive charge onto a mine as an alternative approach for eliminating the mine threat. Platform and neutralizer must be field repairable within 4 hours after each AT Landmine encounter. System should have additional space for typical soldier equipment, command and control stations for tele-operation of the Ground Standoff Mine Detection System, and storage of mine clearing mission equipment. In addition, the offeror will be required to provide support for Government testing in the Oct 2000 -- Mar 2001 timeframe. The resulting contract will also include options for delivery and setup of vehicle, engineering test support, refurbishment and repairs as required, spare parts, new equipment training, automatic transmission, and completely integrated mine clearance capability. The statutory authority for other than full andopen competition is 10 USC 2304 (c)(1), "Only One Responsible Source and no Other Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements". However, all responsible sources that can provide supporting data to demonstrate they can provide a non-developmental (in production or fielded) vehicle platform with landmine neutralization capability which can successfully meet the above requirements may submit a quote to be considered by the agency. Technology suitable for testing by September 2000 will receive consideration. Responses should be no longer than ten (10) pages. The resultant contract will be firm fixed price. Responses are to be received via email within 45 calendar days of the date of this notice. All requests for further information must be in writing or via email, telephone requests for additional information will not be honored. You may forward responses to the following e-mail address: pdavis@hoffman-issaa2.army.mil. Acknowledgement of receipt will be issued. See Numbered Note 22. Posted 09/29/99 (W-SN385935). (0272)

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