United Defense LP, Armament Systems Division, 4800 E. River Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55421-1498

Y -- TURNKEY DEVELOPMENT OF RLPG SUBSYSTEM TEST LABORATORIES; INCLUDING PLANNING, EQUIPMENT DESIGN, PROCUREMENT, INSTALLATION, AND ACCEPTANCE TEST THEREOF Contact, George Desmarais, 413/494-3881. POC George W. Desmarais, Program Manager - CRUSADER and LP Technical Subcontracts, (413) 494-3881. Lockheed Martin Defense Systems (LMDS), a subcontractor to United Defense - LP under Prime Contract DAAE30-95-C0009, is seeking potential sources for the turnkey development (including planning, equipment design, procurement, installation and acceptance testing) of several subsystem test laboratories to be used during the development of the Crusader main armament 155mm Regenerative Liquid Propellant Gun (RLPG) and is soliciting capability statements from potential qualified subcontractors/suppliers interested in participating in such effort. In subcontracting for this effort, LMDS will provide the subcontractor with test objectives and top level requirements for each lab. The subcontractor shall develop detailed requirements for each lab and perform tradeoff analyses (including options to test at modified or new labs sited at LMDS, test at available subcontractor or third party facilities). For those labs to be sited at LMDS, the subcontractor shall: (1) develop detailed test facility requirements, (2) design (or subcontract and design) unique test equipment, (3) procure standard test equipment, (4) install the equipment into test sites prepared by LMDS to subcontractor requirements, and (5) perform acceptance and turnover testing of each lab. Test laboratories include: (a) Breech Development Lab, (b) Seal Test Lab, (c) Fluid Mechanics Lab, (d) Igniter Lab, (e) Electronics Development Lab, (f) Chemical Analysis Lab, (g) EMI Test Lab, (h) System/Software Test Lab, and (i) System Integration Lab. The maximum classification of any lab will be confidential. Lab usage will include support to subsystem/component development, Design verification testing, reliability growth testing, production testing and fielded equipment support. The subcontractor should (a) have expertise in turnkey development of complex mechanical and electrical test laboratories used on military programs, (b) have expertise to understand unique requirements associated with testing subsystems/cmponents of major caliber gun systems, and (c) be capable of providing personnel and facilities capable of design, fabrication, installation and test of complex mechanical and electrical test equipment. The solicited capability statements (in subcontractor format) should address unique technical capabilities of their organization, including background on relevant past experience, facilities capabilities and personnel expertise associated with the above described efforts. Subcontractor/Supplier submissions must be received no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the publication of this notice and should be submitted via US Mail (or express mail) to Lockheed Martin Defense Systems, 100 Plastics Avenue, Pittsfield MA 01201, Attention: G W Desmarais, Room 2266. Information may not be submitted via facsimile. Subcontractors whose capability statements are judged to be relevant to the objectives stated above will be placed on a bidders list and provided an opportunity to compete for this opportunity. Neither the cost of preparing capability statements nor the cost of preparing full proposals will be entertained as allowable direct charges to any resulting subcontract. See Note 25. (234)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0149 19950823\Y-0017.SOL)