SOLICITATION NOTICE
16 -- MQ-4C Triton AV Material Development
- Notice Date
- 5/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 336411
— Aircraft Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, NAVAIR HQ, Building 2272, 47123 Buse Road Unit IPT, Patuxent River, Maryland, 20670, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00019-15-P1-PMA-262-0011
- Archive Date
- 7/4/2014
- Point of Contact
- Jeffrey A. Norris, Phone: 3019954846
- E-Mail Address
-
jeffrey.a.norris@navy.mil
(jeffrey.a.norris@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR), Patuxent River, MD intends to contract on a sole source basis with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) for non-recurring developmental work related the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (Triton UAS) air vehicle. Planned efforts address engineering improvements to support/sustainment (including peculiar support equipment), producibility, durability, and performance in degraded environmental conditions and may include engineering analysis, material production, and testing in these areas. Engineering analysis procured under this order(s) may also include the performance of flight test and related engineering analysis to characterize and/or improve MQ-4C Triton air vehicle performance in inclement weather (to include real-world icing conditions) and/or the ability to detect and avoid inclement weather. Northrop Grumman is the sole designer developer, and integrator of the Triton UAS. Accordingly, it is the only contractor with the requisite personnel, technical knowledge, and expertise to provide the NRE and hardware required for these efforts within the program's cost and schedule constraints. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the requirement. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice. All inquires and concerns must be addressed to the Contract Specialist, Jeffrey Norris at jeffrey.a.norris@navy.mil or call 301-995-4846. Responses to this notice must be submitted by 19 June 2014. A determination not to compete this requirement is within the discretion of the Government. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government in a future procurement.
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