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31 -- BEARINGS SOL SP0441-00-R-1106 DUE 032700 POC Albert Whitley, Contract Specialist, (804)279-5702, Diana Coley, Contracting Officer, (804) 279-3461 WEB: dscr homepage, http://www.dscr.dla.mil. E-MAIL: dcoley@dscr.dla.mil, awhitley@dscr.dla.mil. Solicitation SPO441-00-R-1106 will be issued by the Defense Supply Center Richmond on or about 10 February 2000 for the procurement of Landing Gear Bushings using the Just-In-Time concept to meet production requirements for the Landing Gear Repair Facility at the Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill AFB, UT. Hereafter, it will be referred to as JIT Bushings. The solicitation for JIT Bushings will be open for approximately 45 days from the date it is issued. The JIT Bushings must be manufactured and delivered to the Landing Gear Repair Facility, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill AFB, UT, within a minimum of three working days with a desired delivery time of two working days from the time the order is initiated. These bushings will be used in, but not limited to, military aircraft such as the A-10, B-1, B-52, C-5, C-141, F-15, F-16, and T-38. This procurement is a 100% small business set-aside. The results will be firm fixed priced, with an economic price adjustment, Indefinite Quantity Contract(s). There will be a two (2) year base period of performance and four (4) one year option periods of performance. The base period will have guaranteed minimum dollar values for each contract issued. The total estimated dollar value of this effort is approximately $15 million to $25 million. This solicitation will contain approximately 380 different bushing kits. A kit is comprised of replacement bushings and may contain a single bushing or several bushings. The outside diameter of the JIT Bushings will vary between inch and 12 inches. Some of the dimensions of the bushings will be modified by the ordering document. The exact dimensions of the basic bushings are provided with the technical data packages. Each contractor will be required to complete a 100% Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) per ASTM E 1444 or ASTM E 1417 as applicable, of all bushings they manufacture under this effort. Periodic inspections will be performed by the Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC). The contractor is expected to have a quality system modeled after ISO 9000. However, ISO 9000 certification is not required. As a minimum, the vendor shall have documentation/records available for the quality assurance inspector that includes the record of the order; record of production that includes the sizes recorded while the bushing is still in the chuck; and a record of the test data. Periodic inspections will be performed by the DCMC QAR thought the life of the contract. Evaluation will be based on price and approval of the vendors manufacturing facilities and process. A site qualification visit will be conducted with each potential vendor found to be within the competitive range. The solicitation will include the criteria for site qualification. Posted 01/27/00 (W-SN419498). (0027)

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