58 -- AN/ASN-139 CARRIER AIRCRAFT INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM (CAINS II)

Notice Date

May 15, 2001

Contracting Office

Contracts Group, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Bldg 2272 Suite 353, 47123 Buse Road, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1547

ZIP Code

20670-1547

Solicitation Number

Not Applicable.

Response Due

June 15, 2001

Point of Contact

Debbie Norris, Contract Specialist 301-757-5893; Clare Carmack, Contracting Officer 301-757-5919

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the contract specialist or contracting (norrisdj@navair.navy.mil; carmackcc@navair.navy.mil)

Description

The Naval Air Systems Command, Air Combat Electronics Program Office (PMA209) is seeking information from interested bidders for the 2002 and subsequent procurements of the AN/ASN-139 Carrier Aircraft Inertial Navigation System (CAINS II) replacement. Present capabilities include operation aboard aircraft carriers on various Naval aircraft. Additional capabilities being sought are 0.4 nautical miles per hour free inertial drift rate CEP, embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and gravity gradient enhancement. Provisions should be made for a GPS remote crypto fill port and a fixed pattern reception GPS antenna. This procurement will be supported by an Organizational to Commercial Depot maintenance philosophy. The projected procurement quantity range is 100 -- 1500 units plus the associated equipment and documentation. The Navy will consider product information from other sources which have existing products that can satisfy the program requirements. Interested sources must be able to demonstrate their ability to: satisfy existing program form, fit, function, and interface (F3I) integration and commonality requirements; meet the targeted systems availability and delivery in fiscal year 2002; meet a turnaround time for commercial Depot of five calendar days; deliver production units which meet all contract requirements to support the existing platforms integration and test schedules; dedicate manufacturing capacity in excess of 50 units per month; and reconfigure the software. Due to the nature of this potential effort, no foreign country sources will be considered. Prospective sources will be required to have a DOD security classification at the SECRET level. Interested sources shall submit their responses with the following minimum information addressed: product descriptions, logistics support and affordable readiness concepts, guaranteed field MTBF of 7500 hours or greater, warranties, Built-In-Test to include performance projections and actuals, past experience with MIL-STD-1553 data bus, various MIL-STD-1553 implementations, quality assurance program description, parts selection and control process, software and hardware configuration control process, software development process and software verification process. Interested sources should also include the following cost information in their submission: unit costs for each aircraft installation configuration and associated equipment in then year dollars and rough order of magnitude in then year dollars for costs associated with the above listed supporting requirements. In addition, the Navy would like interested sources to provide responses to the following specific questions: Is the proposed navigation set a non-developmental item or commercial-off-the shelf? How will the proposed navigation architecture support functional upgrades? How much memory and throughput reserves are available for future upgrades? How do you plan to manage hardware and software configurations for parts obsolescence, and future improvements? Have you done a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Software Capability Maturity Assessment? If so, what is your current level? How long have you been at your current level? Were reliability predictions performed during the development of your system? If so, what prediction models were used and what was the predicted reliability? How has the fielded reliability of your equipment compared to the laboratory reliability? What process did you use for measuring field reliability? Was a thermal analysis performed? What was the result? What failure modes were detected during reliability testing? How much of the current software is expected to be modified? How much redesign and/or relayout of boards is required to achieve the F3I requirement? What similar efforts (i.e., reduction of form) has the company undertaken successfully in the past? What level of testing has been accomplished on the unit? Do you possess the technical skills and abilities to establish and maintain a repair of repairables and commercial depot program for the items under consideration? What specific areas does the company perceive as the highest risk of this effort? Interested sources should submit their responses in writing within ninety (90) days of the date of this announcement. Telephone and other oral means of requesting information will not be permitted. All correspondence relating to this matter should be directed to Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, AIR-2.5.1.8.1.3, 47123 Buse Road, Room 256, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1547, or by facsimile to (301) 757-5955. The Navy will not pay for product research, development, qualification testing, re-packaging, re-design and/or information received in response to this announcement. The Navy may use support contractor employees from, DCS Incorporated, ISI (Information Spectrum, Inc.), Titan Systems, Inc., and Raytheon Technical Services Center (Indianapolis, IN) to assist in reviewing the responses received under this announcement. The Navy reserves the right to conduct on-site surveys and fact-finding sessions with interested sources for the purposes of evaluating facilities and products under consideration. Additional cost information may be requested during the fact-finding sessions. To assist interested sources in preparing their response, a library containing detailed system performance descriptions, interface specifications, and other system requirements documents has been established at the Raytheon Technical Services Center (Indianapolis, IN). To obtain access to the CAINS II data library, offerors are required to submit a written request to the address above. In order to facilitate scheduling access to the library, please submit this request within thirty (30) days from the date of this announcement. All information received in response to this announcement will be kept confidential.

Web Link

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010517/58SOL006.HTM (W-135 SN50M1V6)