SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Engineering support for small-medium caliber soldier weapon systems.
- Notice Date
- 9/19/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- ACC - New Jersey, Center for Contracting and Commerce, Building 10 Phipps RD, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
- ZIP Code
- 07806-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W15QKN-12-T-0027
- Response Due
- 9/28/2012
- Archive Date
- 11/27/2012
- Point of Contact
- Margaret B. Reed, 973-724-3273
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC - New Jersey
(margaret.b.reed.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Army Contracting Command- Picatinny (ACC-Picatinny) is conducting market research for companies capable of providing support services to the U.S. Army, Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) for Technical and Prototyping Engineering Services. The requirement is in support of projects of the Small-Medium Caliber Soldier Weapon Systems to include overall technical project management. The requirement consists of the following: The contractor shall provide fabrication, technical functions; and field test support; data reduction and analysis; investigations regarding areas of special concern, analyzing, identifying and pin-pointing problems and providing recommended solutions and/or alternatives; preparation of reports for presentation; fabrication of models and devices; modification and repair of equipment fixtures and devices. The contractor shall be required to provide radiography technology at a level III; in order to provide assessments and recommendations. Contractor shall identity any and all specifications familiar with this process for the 40MM and 30MM programs. The contractor shall be required to provide logistics and management capabilities for tracking and forecasting ammunition; to provide project management level support for Small-Medium Caliber Weapon Systems with overall technical project management skills; to include but not limited to Earned Value Analyst, Cost Analysis and Critical Path Methodology and Generator major milestones. The contractor shall provide Technical Data Package (TDP) Configuration Management review; conduct Physical and Functional Configuration Audits; Engineering Change Proposals and Electronic TDP files. The contractor shall conduct reliability assessment in the area of plastics ceramics and development of environmental stress screening plan for power sources. The contractor shall be required to provide software development as an integral module; feasibility studies for database software program, and risk management applications. Utilize completed work in Radio Frequency (RF) Technology to include research and development. The contractor shall be required to provide technical and managerial direction to multidiscipline project and have had responsible for life cycle engineering (design, development, and production engineering) of munitions, mines, demolitions, and improvements of systems. For projects to include but limited to; Flares, Impulse Cartridge, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDES), Armament and Ammunition programs. The contractor shall coordinate, facilitate, and take minutes at meetings to execute integration and testing efforts. The contractor shall generate test plans and coordinate/execute testing to demonstrate preliminary and full integration capability at a government test facility. The contractor shall prepare, provide and conduct analysis, prototyping, design engineering and production of systems, weapons and components to include, but not be limited to the following: The contractor shall have current technical knowledge and analysis to review detail drawings The contractor shall have an understanding on the product improvement on the E3 initiatives as it relates to Design, Functionality and Performance; The contractor shall coordinate with other Government agencies during the investigation process providing expert problem solving recommendations for data comparison for the M796 Impulse cartridge and various flares program (inert only). The contractor shall coordinate at contractors or Government facilities the test assets to include shipping and receiving along with maintaining all test asset inventory including before, during, and after testing. The contractor shall be required to analyze and review explosives and propellants (does not include any handling or lab work) and be familiar with the Government product specifications, test plans and test procedures to meet the program system requirements. The contractor shall be required to perform testing for the current system engineering M796 program and any other flares programs as required at contractor facilities or Government site. The contractor shall ensure consistency with the applicable test plan(s) and specification(s) for each test witnessed. The contractor shall demonstrate and provide a sample of the current updates to ongoing test plans every quarter along with regular summaries of flares testing progress to the Countermeasure IPTs and management. The contractor shall be required to review and provide documentation analysis for chemical analysis and physical property testing of non-energetic chemical compounds. This will include the analysis of explosives, pyrotechnics, propellants, formulations, binders, plasticizers, and other chemical compounds using classical wet chemistry and instrumental methods; microscopy (optical, Scanning Electron Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscope, x-ray analysis; density measurement; particle size analysis; surface analysis (surface tensionmetry, surface energy measurement, zeta potential measurement); characterization of the mechanical properties (including, but not limited to stress/train, elongation, hardness, compression) of binder systems using dynamic force measurements and the physical testing of these materials to determine their sensitivity, stability, ignition temperatures, energy output, ballistic properties, and performance. (No explosive handing, no AA&E or lab work are required) The contractor shall provide program analysis and development of MANPRINT documentation for armament, ammunition, and grenade weapon programs to ensure that the human dimension is an integral element of product design, development, deployment, and demilitarization. The contractor shall aide in the identification of MANPRINT issues pursuant to program requirements and development efforts within the MANPRINT domains as defined in AR 602-2. The contractor is responsible for providing personnel with expertise in the following areas: The contactor must have experience and understanding of system engineering, software programming, commercial and tactical radios, and Army Command and Control (C2) structure. Knowledge in Integration of Current Force Unattended Ground Sensor (CF UGS) with the Future Combat System Joint Tactical Radio System Hand-Held/Man-Portable/Sensor (FCS JTRS HMS) radio to demonstrate network capability into Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2). CF UGS uses commercial-off-the-shelf or other military radios currently not compatible with the Future Combat System architecture. The contractor shall be knowledgeable of Software Programs to support Acoustics, Digital signal and System Processing to include but not limited to: C-Coding for Real-Time Execution Familiarity of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Knowledge of the MATrix LABoratory (MATLAB) Computing Environment Background in Digital Signal Processing Ability to understand the underlying mathematics of the algorithms Generating test plans and supporting field tests 3-5 Years Experience in C-Coding, MATLAB and field testing. Knowledge and/or familiarity of Physical Acoustics The contractor shall have an understanding on the product improvement on the Electromagnetic Evaluation Effects (E3) initiatives as it relates to Design, Functionality and Performance. The contractor shall have current knowledge with flares data for testing at Government facilities. Respondents should include company name and contact information (address, phone number, e-mail address); Cage Code and Type of Business (Small Business, Large Business, 8(a) Small Business, Hub-Zone Small Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, Woman Owned). Submissions to this Market Survey should be made within three (3) calendar weeks, NLT 28 September 2012 to: U.S. Army Contracting Command ACC-NJ, Attn.: Margaret B. Reed, Building 45C, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000; email: margaret.b.reed.civ@mail.mil. All information shall be submitted via email only; NO PHONE calls will be accepted. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. Any contractor responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the contractor's qualifications. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the Government. After a review of the responses received, a solicitation may be issued at a later date. However, responses to this notice will not be considered a response to any possible future solicitation.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC - New Jersey Center for Contracting and Commerce, Building 10 Phipps RD Picatinny Arsenal NJ
- Zip Code: 07806-5000
- Zip Code: 07806-5000
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