58 -- INTENT TO SOLICIT FOR COMPONENT ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT (CAD) FOR THE AERIAL COMMON SENSOR

Notice Date

April 27, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

ZIP Code

07703-5008

Solicitation Number

DAAB07-01-R-L303

Point of Contact

Ms. Faith Verona, Contract Specialist, 732-427-1331; Mr. David Concilio, Contracting Officer, 732-532-5250

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the contracting office (Faith.Verona@mail1.monmouth.army.mil)

Description

DESC: This is not a solicitation, but for planning purposes only. A contract will not be awarded from this announcement. The Government intends to announce a solicitation for execution of a Component Advanced Development (CAD) phase of Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) Acquisition. The purpose of this announcement is to provide industry and other Government agencies advanced notification of Government intent. In November of 1999, the Government announced its intent to enter into Concept Exploration (CE) phase of the ACS acquisition. Three competing industry teams were selected and are currently developing competing ACS concepts. It is the intent of the Government to enter into a CAD phase for risk reduction on component elements of proposed ACS systems prior to systems integration. Technical risk areas intended to be addressed in CAD are (1) SIGINT Sub-system Development, (2) Platform Antenna Integration, (3) Multi-INT Software Complexity, and (4) Visualization of the Man Machine Interface. The Government will be in receipt of 19 deliverables from each of the industry participants in the Concept Exploration phase. These deliverables will form the basis for down select for entry into the CAD phase. It is the intent of the Government to award at least two contracts for the CAD phase, each not to exceed 15 Million Dollars. Although all CE phase deliverables will be subject to review, the primary deliverables considered during the down-select process will be (1) the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) / Total Ownership Cost (TOC) Projection Model, (2) the Final Airframe Recommendation and sensitivity Analysis, (3) the Intelligence sensor performance recommendations, (4) the Performance Based Specification, (5) the Cost Performance Trade-Off Analysis, (6) the Risk Management/Mitigation Plan, (7) the Operational Model, (8) the Engineering support Models, (9) System Requirements Review (SRR)-quality Systems Engineering process and (10) the Support/Sustainment plan. Any restriction on the rights afforded the Government, for the "products" developed under CE or follow-on ACS efforts will also be considered in the select process. The Government intends to publish a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) in June 2001 for Industry comment. The Draft (and Final) RFP will be posted on the Business Opportunity Page at LINKURL provided below. The CAD phase is expected to focus on key component level risk areas, to include, as a minimum, (1) SIGINT Processing Architecture, (2) Multi-Intelligence Sensor Architecture/Integration, (3) MMI or visualization of How an ACS Operator Will Exploit the Multi-INT Capabilities of the ACS Program. Notwithstanding the above, the Government reserves the right to award only one contract. Note: The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR part 12, see Note 26.

Web Link

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PAGE (http://abop.monmouth.army.mil/ibophome.nsf/home?open)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010501/58SOL001.HTM (W-117 SN50K5F1)