SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Sustainment Support for the Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) AN/PRC-154(V)1, AN/PRC-154A(V)1 and AN/PRC-154C(V)1 Rifleman Radios - RFI Documents
- Notice Date
- 2/13/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 811213
— Communication Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W15P7T) Division B, 6565 Surveillance Loop, Building 6001, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-15-C-0005-P00025
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2018
- Point of Contact
- Sharon A. Peterson, Phone: 4438614971
- E-Mail Address
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sharon.a.peterson15.civ@mail.mil
(sharon.a.peterson15.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Appendix 10 - Failure Analysis and Repairs Report Spreadsheet Att 0010 - Vol II HW-SW Ext LRIP Rifleman PWS Att 0010 - Vol I Base Contract LRIP Rifleman PWS This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. This is not a request for Quotations or Proposals. The Government will not reimburse contractors or responders to this notice for any costs incurred in responding or in any subsequent exchange of information. The U.S. Government (USG) reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any private sector input as a result of this Market Survey. The USG is not obligated to notify respondents of the results of this survey. All proprietary and restricted information shall be clearly marked. Any documentation provided will not be returned. All interested sources are invited to provide responses to the questionnaire below. Please submit responses to the questionnaire electronically as one complete document in the questionnaire structure below in a format chosen by the responder. Sustainment Support Requirements Sustainment support is required for the LRIP AN/PRC-154(V)1, AN/PRC-154A(V)1, and AN/PRC-154C(V)1 Rifleman Radios. Sustainment requirements include: 1) the repair of previously delivered Rifleman Radios; 2) software maintenance support, and the preparation and/or update and delivery of software documentation; 3) update, set-up, and delivery of existing and new software tools in a software testing and troubleshooting environment, update of existing or delivery of new software technical documentation, and post-delivery software testing and troubleshooting environment technical support; 4) preparation, delivery, and set-up of depot-level maintenance and repair environment and software/firmware loading tools and test equipment, preparation of depot-level hardware maintenance and repair and software/firmware loading maintenance procedures, and training to USG personnel for performance of hardware maintenance and repair and software/firmware loading for the RT-1954/U, RT-1954A/U, and RT-1954C/U Receiver-Transmitters to include post-delivery repair and software/firmware loading technical support; 5) manufacture and delivery of RT-1954C/U LRIP Rifleman Radio Receiver-Transmitters spares and depot-level repair parts; 6) update of existing LRIP Rifleman Radio Operator and Field Maintenance Technical Manual, Provisioning Parts Lists, Repair Parts and Special Tools Lists, Engineering Data for Provisioning and interface/envelope drawings; 7) Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage and parts obsolescence management; 8) Design Change Notice and Engineering Change Proposal preparation; and 9) Field Service Representative operation and maintenance technical support. NOTE: The Government does not possess or have access to the technical data below the Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) level to support the completion of the sustainment support requirements identified in this Market Survey. 1. Describe how each of the identified sustainment support requirements will be met. 2. Are there any aspects of the identified sustainment support requirements that will be difficult to deliver, or require an extended lead-time to complete? If yes, describe the technical challenges, actions that will be taken to address the technical challenges, and the associated schedules to provide the identified sustainment support. 3. Identify any challenges expected to be encountered to meet the 70 calendar day Depot Level Repairable (DLR) repair turnaround time, and describe the actions that will be taken to maximize the percentage completion of repair actions within this timeframe. 4. Describe the experience and expertise the vendor possesses regarding the software development and software maintenance with software defined radios; the Joint Tactical Radio System and Joint Tactical Networking Center standards, and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology? 5. Describe the software maintenance environment the vendor possesses capable of supporting sustainment of the Rifleman Radio software baseline. 6. Describe the experience and expertise the vendor possesses with DoD communications waveforms and with software certifying agencies, to include the National Security Agency, and the Joint Interoperability Test Command. 7. Identify the current software quality management certifications the vendor possesses. Please provide any questions, comments, or feedback addressing the sustainment requirements identified. Interested parties should submit the requested information no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 28 February 2018 by email to sharon.a.peterson15.civ@mail.mil. When submitting responses, please reference RFI No. W15P7T-15-C-0005-P00025 in the subject line. The Government does not guarantee that questions received will be answered. Answers to questions may be distributed to all interested bidders unless the question is identified as propriety. Telephone responses will not be accepted.
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