SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS) Sources Sought Notice.
- Notice Date
- 1/6/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG SCRT - Natick (SPS), ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5011
- ZIP Code
- 01760-5011
- Solicitation Number
- W911QY-12-S-0002
- Response Due
- 2/24/2012
- Archive Date
- 4/24/2012
- Point of Contact
- Richard Totten, 301-619-2446
- E-Mail Address
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ACC-APG SCRT - Natick (SPS)
(richard.totten1@amedd.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- W911QY-12-S-0002 JBTDS Sources Sought Notice The Joint Program Manager Biological Defense (JPM-BD) mission is to create and sustain affordable materiel solutions that accurately detect, identify, warn, deter, and defeat any biological threats to the Joint Forces. The JPM-BD is seeking interest by commercial entities with the capability to develop and produce systems for the Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS). The JBTDS is a lightweight, low cost, man-portable and battery operable capability set that will provide point detection, collection, and identification of Biological Warfare Agents (BWA). The JBTDS will be networked for system status and alerts to include a base station node with remote nodes. The Contractor would be responsible for: conducting engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) activities to include preparation and delivery of technical software and logistics data; procurement, modification, and integration of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) sensing nodes; manufacture of Systems for test, low rate initial production (LRIP) and full rate production (FRP); and support of Government test and logistics efforts. Interested respondents with the experience and capability to conduct these EMD/LRIP/FRP activities as specified are encouraged to respond to this notice. This is not a request for competitive proposals, but parties interested in responding must furnish in writing, a 3-4 page (not including cover page, index or list of references) synopsis of their capability to accomplish the described work effort. Prospective offerors responding to this notice must also provide complete contact information (telephone, address, email address). The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) for this notice is 541712, Other Research and Development in Physical Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) with a size standard of 500 employees. Respondents must identify their company's business size (based on the NAICS size standard), business status (i.e. large business, small business, disadvantaged, HUB zone, woman-owned, service-disabled, veteran-owned). Please also include information regarding any prior experience with U.S. Government contracts. Respondents are encouraged to provide alternative contracting solutions and to describe the benefits and limitations of various contracting strategies. For any anticipated subcontractors, provide an estimate of the percentage of subcontractor efforts anticipated. The Government will retain comments and information received in response to this notice. Proprietary information should be identified as Company Proprietary. Do not use Government Security Classification markings. Any information provided to the U.S. Government in response to this sources sought notice is for planning purposes only and will not be used as a selection consideration factor in any U.S. Government contract competition. Should the U.S. Government elect to pursue the subject requirement, an official Request for Proposal will be released at a later date in accordance with FAR Part 15. This Sources Sought Notice allows qualified sources for this requirement to self identify. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for any information solicited. No solicitation document exists nor is a solicitation guaranteed to be issued as a result of this notice. All written responses to this notice must be received within 45 days of posting this notice. Capability briefings will not be permitted. The Government Contracting Officer for this notice is Sandra O'Connell. Please address responses to this notice to the Government Contract Specialist, Richard Totten: richard.totten1@us.army.mil. Please designate a company point of contact (telephone, address, and email). Preferred media is electronic (i.e. Microsoft Word, Portable Document Format, or MS Power Point) via e-mail submission. However, other media types (i.e. CD, printed technical information) will be accepted and should be sent to the US Army Contracting Command, ACC-APG-CCAP-SCN, ATTN: Richard Totten 1564 Freedman Dr., Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702. Material that is advertisement only in nature is not desired. Contracting Office Address: ACC-APG-CCAP-SCN Attn: Richard Totten 1564 Freedman Dr. Ft Detrick, MD 21702 Place of Performance: ACC-APG-CCAP-SCN 1564 Freedman Dr. Ft Detrick, MD 21702 Point of Contact(s): Richard Totten, Richard.totten1@us.army.mil 301-619-2446
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG SCRT - Natick (SPS) ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street Natick MA
- Zip Code: 01760-5011
- Zip Code: 01760-5011
- Record
- SN02650341-W 20120108/120106234658-2c1d3b3d58402c774d88acfdc1c52be1 (fbodaily.com)
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