Cdr, AMC Acquisition Center, Edgewood Branch, Attn: AMSSB-ACC-E, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424

99 -- 12 GAUGE PENETRATING & IRRITANT CARTRIDGE DUE 063000 POC Joan Hauser, Contract Specialist, 410-436-3577, Contracting Officer -- Raymond Bail III, 410-436-4537 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist, joan.hauser@sbccom.apgea.army.mil. The Department of Defense is seeking sources for existing devices for a 12 Gauge Penetrating/Irritant Cartridge (PIC) that can be used in 12 GA shotguns chambered for 2.75 inch and 3.0 inch cartridges. The SIC Code for this procurement is 3482 and the small business size standard is 1,000 employees. This survey announcement is to identify existing technologies. There is no commitment on the part of the Government to award a contract as a result of this request for information nor to pay for information received. The purpose of PIC is to introduce the Riot Control Agent (RCA), such as Ortho-cholorobenzalmalononitrile (CS) irritant into the hostile personnel's surroundings with minimum force. The PIC shall enhance the soldiers' threat responsibility and flexibility by providing an easy way to distract and assist in disabling hostile personnel behind barricades. Barricades to be penetrated shall include doors and windows of vehicles and buildings. The PIC shall be applicable to hostage rescue, civil disturbance control, law enforcement activities, or protection of key facilities from threat personnel. The Government is also seeking training variants of the PIC that shall produce non-irritant visible cloud that is similar to RCA. The cartridge's payload shall penetrate the barriers listed below and produce a disabling or inert cloud on the other side. Barriers: Residential Internal Building Doors, 34.9 mm thickness, Wood hollow core Masonite; Residential Exterior Building Doors, 44.5 mm thickness, Steel, 24 gauge, foam filled and solid wood; Residential Building Windows, Single standard pane and double standard pane with 9.526 mm air space; Commercial Building Windows, 6.35 mm thickness, Tempered safety glass; Side, Rear and Front Windshield of Vehicle Window, 4.76 mm thickness, Tempered Safety Glass and Laminated Safety Glass; Aircraft Vehicle Body, 1.16 mm thickness, Aluminum with ABS plastic liner; and Automobile, 0.762 mm thickness, Steel with hardboard liner. The characteristic requirements of PIC shall include the following: capability of being fired from the pump and gas operated 12 gauge shotguns chambered for 2.75 inch and 3 inch cartridges and XM1014 Joint Service Combat Shotgun; standard velocity commercial 12 gauge conforming to MIL-C-48656A (SEE NUMBERED Note 9) Type I or the Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, Inc. (SAAMI) Specification Standard Z299.2; not degrade the durability or reliability of standard issue and XM1014 combat shotguns as compared with the existing family of 12 gauge shotgun munitions; payload of the cartridges, when fired from point blank to 35 meters or more from a barrier shall penetrate the barrier and produce a disabling cloud or inert cloud on the other side of the barrier (It is desired that a single cartridge meets this requirement but separate short and long range cartridges are acceptable.); no additional sighting devices shall be required for the PIC or training cartridge; capable of being fired through a 610 mm wide by 914 mm tall window from 35 meters 70% or more of the time; when a single or two PIC cartridges are fired through a barrier into a 18 m3 volume enclosure, they shall within 3 to 10 seconds render all unmasked threat personnel within incapable of coherent action against friendly forces for a 30 seconds to 3 minutes duration; dispense a RCA cloud in free space at 10-15 meters without striking an object/barrier; ability to pass through a Modified Choke Safety without releasing the RCA; in case of a dud, the PIC projectile shall be safe to handle; the PIC shall have the same durability and reliability as standard-issue 12 gauge cartidges; operable and safely function after adverse environmental conditions, i.e., mud, sand, dust, rain, freezing rain, salt fog, hot and cold temperatures (-32oC to 49oC) IAW MIL-STD-810E; chamber pressure not exceed the maximum product average of 13,000 psi and maximum permissible individual pressure of 15,000 psi; training variants of the PIC to produce non-hazardous and non-irritant visible clouds, loud reports and recoils similar to the irritant rounds and shall be a ballistic match to the irritant round; Neither round shall contain any heavy metals, volatile, or ozone depleting chemicals nor present an inhalation toxicity or residual waste hazard beyond that of the RCA itself. Interested sources should submit written notification to USAMC Acquisition Center, Edgewood Branch, ATTN: AMSSB-ACC-EE/Joan Hauser or Raymond Bail III, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424. Written information should include the following: Company name, address, point of contact, phone number, facsimile number, electronic mail address, and type of technology proposed; level of maturity and whether it is a concept, a laboratory prototype, or commercially available; list product capabilities and testing that has been accomplished with results; and Render Safety Procedures and Material Data Safety Sheets. Available product literature and published price list should be provided. Interested sources shall submit a sample of 7 irritant and 5 training rounds of cartridges to Ms. Stella Lee, SBCCOM, ATTN: AMSSB-REN-ED, E3549, 5183 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424, Phone: (410) 436-6083 by closing date. Samples will not be returned. Based on sample testing results, offerors whose product the Government feels may be qualified to meet the Government's need for PIC, will be notified. SEE NUMBERED Note 9. Posted 06/13/00 (W-SN464081). (0165)

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