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14 -- MM III GUIDANCE SYSTEM SOL F42610-97-R-CCCCK POC For copy, Cathie Richardson/Lmke/[801]777-0130, For additional information contact Cathie Richardson/Lmke/[801]777-0130 The following information is provided to do a Market Survey of Industry to see if there are any potential contractors, in addition to Boeing, who have sufficient knowledge of the Minuteman (MM) III guidance system and the requisite expertise to design and develop an Automatic Test System (ATS) for the MM III Alignment Sets. The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) System Program Office (SPO) anticipates awarding a contract in FY99 to build one Alignment Set Test Station (ASTS) to be located at the MM III repair depot Boeing Guidance and Repair Center (BGRC), Newark, OH. Currently, there are two operational MM III ASTSs at the depot that were delivered to the Government in 1986. These stations enable the unit-under-test (UUT) to be oriented to designated positions to within sub-arc seconds of accuracy. They also employ an environmental chamber which encloses the UUT and thermally stabilizes the interior atmosphere temperature to within ged to contact the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) identified below to obtain copies of the Product Development Specification and a Test Station Error Analysis Report generated as part of the development effort for the two existing ASTSs. These documents should not drive a specific design solution for this program. They, however, provide significant insight into the critical design factors that must be considered when designing and developing an ASTS. Potential offerors are encouraged to carefully review these documents before expressing an interest in this program. Design solutions for this ASTS may leverage off of those design solutions already proven in the depot's existing ASTSs. However, an exact duplication of the existing ASTS architecture is not preferred. The Government prefers that current test technologies be employed in this new ASTS enabling it to be supportable through the year 2020. The Government is also seeking to increase station Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) rate, reduce station Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), and possibly decrease station calibration workloads and downtime. Use of VXI/commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) instruments is also desired, where feasible and practicable. Development of the UUT holding fixture will be customized and will require high precision machining. Final selection of test station instruments will be coordinated with the Government. This new ASTS shall be capable of testing both NS50 MM III gyrocompass and stable platform alignment sets. It should be noted that final delivery of engineering documentation for the NS50 alignment sets is currently scheduled to be delivered in May '99 as part of the MM III Guidance Replacement Program (GRP). Capable sources shall submit a concise and program specific response presenting sufficient information to substantiate that they have: 1. Recent corporate experience [within the past three (3) years] in the area of designing and developing complex, high-accuracy electro-mechanical automatic test systems (ATS) with non-recurring costs exceeding $500K. Brief descriptions (less than one page per program) shall be provided for each program to be considered. 2. Technical personnel capable of this design and development effort. This shall be demonstrated by submitting rsums of at least three (3) technical personnel who have directly designed and developed any type of ATS that employs a collimator/autocollimator and precision rotary/tilt table (either within a single station or across several stations). This experience must have been within the past five (5) years. 3. A test site for integration and qualification testing that is capable of being seismically quiescent for up to a 24 hour period. One such means of obtaining this would be through a seismically isolated test pad. However, other methods would also be feasible, as long as they are reasonably isolated from seismic disturbances. Clean room requirements for the development site are not necessary, but clean production environment is necessary (i.e., equivalent to that of an air conditioned office building). A top-level facility description(s) for the test station's proposed development and integration/qualification site shall be provided. 4. SECRET security clearances (foreign participation is prohibited). To include labor, travel/subsistence, and material to support the program. Potential offerors should provide a copy of their DLSC Certified DD Form 2345 to the PCO to receive a copy of the Product Development Specification and Test Station Error Analysis Report referenced above. All interested offerors are requested to submit two (2) copies of an unclassified response (limited to 30 pages) within twenty-five (25) working days after publication of this notice to OO-ALC/LMKE, Attn: Cathie Richardson, 6038 Aspen Ave., Bldg 1289SE, Hill AFB, UT 84056-5816. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Requests for further information regarding this announcement should be directed to the contracting officer. No telephone or fax requests. Only written requests received directly from the requester are acceptable. (0241)

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