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58 -- TACTICAL AUTOMATED SECURITY SYSTEM (TASS) PRODUCTION PROGRAM - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION POC Angela Luter, Contract Manager, 617-377-6606; Kent W. Kinal, Contracting Officer, 617-377-6607. Reference CBD announcement dated 8 September 1995, Same Subject. Due to the increased emphasis on Anti-terrorism the scope of the TASS contract is projected to be increased to $300M-$400M. In addition, the associated P3I efforts are projected at $5M-$7M. The referenced announcement contains a description of the upcoming solicitation and contains 15 screening criteria. To ensure an accurate representation of the required capabilities, four of these critical criteria are further described below: (a) manufacture and produce developed equipment from a Government Furnished Technical Data Package (TDP) with special emphasis in RF module production, i.e. Proven capability to manufacture at least six-layer boards with surface mounted components containing RF circuits and appropriate shielding. Provide existing processes and machinery for accomplishing all the manufacturing functions. A brief description of the manufacturing machinery and its capability (level of pitch, chip size placement, inprocess electrical verification, component placement speeds, etc.). (b) Ability to meet surge and long-term increases in manufacturing requirements, i.e. Proven manufacturing capabilty to manufacture up to 2,000 circuitboards per month and assemble up to 1,000 Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) per month. (c) act as total systems integrator of COTS and developed components, i.e. Proven capability to integrate a mix of COTS and developed software with hardware, and integrate hardware with hardware. Capability to evaluate and select wide area thermal imagers to confirm the performance will meet the specification. (d) design, develop and implement P3I hardware/software upgrades, and update the TDP, i.e. Proven engineering design capability in: RF circuitry, encryption, microprocessor control circuitry, and wideband RF image transmission. P3I upgrades require software design and coding in C and 8051 assembly language. The initial design effort will be to implement fixes for 32 deficiencies that were generated during Qualification Operational Test and Evaluation. Two upgrades per year are planned for the duration of the contract. Note: The first P3I upgrade is part of the basic contract requirement, to be completed 18 months from contract award, and consists of the weight and size reduction of two TASS LRUs (Hand Held Monitor and the Communication Module, 40% lighter & 25% smaller). The Qualification/Capabilities Statement shall also contain examples of similar design and manufacturing efforts. Interested qualified firms should submit an update to their Qualifications/Capabilities Statement that addresses the TASS Production Program clarified screening criteria no later than 15 days after the release of this announcement. The Qualification/Capabilities Statement shall include the name of five programs/projects that are representative of the above TASS Production program key capabilities that the firm has performed on. Include the names and phone numbers of the customers for each of these programs/projects. The Government may make site visits to confirm the information provided in the Qualification/Capabilities Statements. Potential offerors should consider these critical criteria as the most likely minimum selection criteria for competitive range determination. The Qualifications/Capabilities Statement shall not exceed 30 pages. Responses must indicate whether the concern is a large, small, disadvantaged, or women-owned concern and specify a contact person with their telephone number. For this acquisition, a concern will be considered small if its number of employees does not exceed 750 (SIC Code 3663). Additionally, sources shall indicate if they are US or foreign owned/controlled. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of the proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Dr. Philip P. Panzarella at (617)377-5527. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level, or issues that require contractor confidentiality. See Numbered Note(s): 12. (0288)

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