US Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center, Army Research Laboratory Contracting Division, Attn: AMSSB-ACA-P, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197

A -- SURVIVABILITY ANALYSIS OF C4I SYSTEMS SOL W813LU-9172-8002 DUE 051200 POC Terri Carney Contract Specialist (301) 394-1503 tcarney@arl.mil Lee A Hess Contracting Officer (301) 394-4359 lhess@arl.mil The contractor shall provided technical and administrative support services in the areas of (1) survivability analysis of US Army electronic systems (2) development and refinement of counter-countermeasures (CCM), and (3) assessment of Soldier Survivability (SSv) and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) issues associated with US Army electronic systems. The primary focus of this contract will be to investigate the impact of enemy electronic warfare (EW) and information warfare (IW) on U.S. Army C4I systems. Candidate C4I systems subject to investigation will fall into one of three functional areas C2, IEW or communications. They may include, but are not limited to AFATDS, ASAS, CSSCS, FAADC2I, MCS, FBCB2, BCIS, GBS, TUAV, Firefinder Radars, ISYSCON, NTDR, MSE, EPLRS, SINCGARS, JTRS, GPS, SCAMP, SMART-T and WIN-T systems. The contractor will be directed by task orders that define specific requirements, deliverables and schedule. Multiple awards may be made resulting in separate contracts for part or all of the effort described above. The period of performance is sixty (60) months. The anticipated award date is 09/30/00. The estimated cost of the requirement is $5M over the 60 months period of performance. The Standard Industrial Code for this action is 8711 with $4M in average annual receipts for the last three years as the threshold to determine business size. The security level for this requirement is secret. The Government is seeking sources in order to determine who is capable of competing for this requirement. Hubzone firms, 8(a)s and small businesses are encouraged to respond by providing supporting evidence of experience and capabilities to the Contracting Officer within fifteen (15) days of the appearance of this notice in CBD. Respondees are encouraged to provide detailed, specific and tailored capability statements for this requirement as opposed to general information relative to its experience and qualifications. The Government will also consider suggestions for work function break-out forseparate awards. The cutoff of 15 days after this notice for capability statements shall be strictly enforced. The burden of ensuring that the Contracting Officer has directly received the capability statement by the 15th day at 4:00 PM ET is entirely the responsibility of each respondee. If the due date for capability statements falls on the weekend, then the Monday following the weekend becomes the due date. In the event that the Government's evaluation of the capability statements does not reveal a market of at least two firms within any of the socio-economic strata describe above being able to perform the objectives of the effort, this procurement will be pursued on a full and open competitive basis. The final determination to set this requirement aside for HUBzone firms, 8(a)s, or small-businesses, based on any information received, is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. All other interested parties should respond to this notice to ensure their inclusion on the solicitation mailing list. Neither telephone requests for the solicitation, nor facsimile copies of capability statements, shall be honored. The solicitation will be made available to interested parties via the world wide web at http://w3.arl.mil/contracts/sources.htm. Posted 04/03/00 (W-SN440439). (0094)

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