MODIFICATION
84 -- Addition to Market Research from 2 April 2014
- Notice Date
- 4/18/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 339113
— Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Installation Contracting (AFICA), Air Force Installation Contracting (AFICA), 1940 Allbrook Dr, Bldg 1, Door 1, Room 300, Cubicle 481, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-5344, United States
- ZIP Code
- 45433-5344
- Solicitation Number
- FA8056-14-R-0004
- Point of Contact
- Susan J. Lee, Phone: 9372572166, Joe Mamer, Phone: 937-257-4776
- E-Mail Address
-
susan.lee.1@us.af.mil, Joseph.Mamer@us.af.mil
(susan.lee.1@us.af.mil, Joseph.Mamer@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- In our continued effort to receive your suggestions and improve our final solicitation by clearly stating our requirements; we would like to reach out to you once again for some feedback. Could you please answer questions 1-7 below by providing feedback that reflects: A.) Your business' experience with customer's (any/all) methodology of specifying their requirements to you? B.) What has been common practice from these requiring authorities? C.) What best clarifies to your business the requiring authority's requirements? 1.) As the firefighter's last line of defense when all other safety measures fail, where does specifying composite materials rate in relation to other specification criteria on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being highest priority? 2.) Could a garment and/or a fabric/barrier manufacturer specifically identify to a brand name/model fabric (e.g. PBI Matrix, Gemini, etc.) if provided only performance characteristics (i.e. Trap Tear, THL, TPP, thermal shrinkage, etc.) without receiving the brand name fabric and/or its composition/blend (e.g. 70/30 blend) from the customer? 3.) Would providing just the physical characteristics and/or performance characteristics be difficult for the manufacturer to determine a specific material or composite or would it be left open for interpretation by the garment manufacturer? Stated differently, if the government provided just performance characteristics, would garment and fabric/barrier manufacturers understand the need and propose one specific brand name or could it be open for interpretation by the garment manufacturer where multiple fabrics/barriers could be interpreted for multiple comparable composites? 4.) Which fabric and barrier material tests (approved test methods) have variances for test data for each of the physical and/or performance characteristics? What is the test variance (5%, 8%) for each? 5.) Based on corporate experience, do you know of any cases where a municipal and/or government Fire Department provided physical and performance characteristics without providing any brand name identifiers (e.g. Kevlar, Nomex, Ara-shield, etc.) to specify their needs? 6.) What is common industry practice when specifying the need of a Fire Department (i.e. specify using brand name fabrics, specify using brand name garments, specify strictly using performance characteristics, etc.)? (Please elaborate) 7.) How many "flame resistant thread" choices are available to be used to sew or seam materials within a garment? P lease reply to AFICA.PPE@us.af.mil NLT COB 25 April 2014.
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