SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- M119 INU Test Program
- Notice Date
- 11/7/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-PC, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-08-X-0527
- Response Due
- 11/30/2007
- Archive Date
- 12/30/2007
- Point of Contact
- Harold Buck, Contract Specialist, (973)724-8717
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Harold Buck
(harold.buck@us.army.mil)
- Description
- 1) The Office of the Joint Program Manager for Lightweight 155mm Howitzer (JPM-LW155) is seeking navigation and pointing device vendors willing to participate in a market survey and risk reduction test program for the 105mm M119 towed howitzer. 2) This Government is working to digitize the M119A2 howitzer. The digitized howitzer will need to be capable of determining cannon pointing orientation (pitch and yaw) together with the cannon trunnion roll, and providing position information, both with and without GPS aiding. One of the major technical risks in this program is the survival of the navigation and pointing device during gun fire shock. This effort looks to demonstrate there is available hardware capable of surviving this environment through testing under actual operating conditions at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. The objective of this effort is to determine whether existing devices can survive multiple M760 cartridge (heated to 145 deg F) gunfire shocks at low and high quadrant elevation. Testing is expected to commence in January 2008. Vendors who participate will witness and receive the test results of their device. 3) It will be the responsibility of each interested vendor to install its device onto an M119A2 gun in accordance with an interface to be provided It is also expected that vendor personnel will be on-site for the anticipated one day setup, two days on a firing range and one day removal. Each vendor will monitor its device through a user interface which needs to continuously provide device status responses throughout the gun fire cycle. If the offered device does not have embedded GPS receiver, then the vendor should bring a GPS receiver to interface with its device. The Government will provide any classified fill data material for the GPS receiver. 4) The testing program will consist of firing a maximum of 50 rounds, with the exact firing parameters to be determined prior to the start of testing. However, the majority of the rounds fired will be at worst case firing conditions of M760 cartridge (zone 8) conditioned to 145 deg F and quadrant elevations ranging to 1244mils. 5) All devices provided by vendors will be with the understanding that the Government is not responsible for any damage which may be incurred to the equipment during this test. All costs incurred by vendors willing to participate in a market survey and risk reduction test program will remain the vendors responsibility. A vendor???s sole consideration for participation in this test/market survey will be a copy of the test report for its device. 6) Due to schedule, funding and range constraints, the Government may find it necessary to limit the number of devices participating in the testing. If the same aiming and pointing device is offered by multiple vendors, the government will only test the device once. 7) Interested vendors should submit specifications (point accuracy, position accuracy, and test results to date) and development/production status for any proposed device by 30 November 2007.
- Web Link
-
US ARMY TACOM-Picatinny Procurement Network
(http://procnet.pica.army.mil/dbi/Download/GoGetSourcesSought.cfm?SolNum=W15QKN-08-X-0527)
- Record
- SN01448591-W 20071109/071107224159 (fbodaily.com)
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