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J -- CONTRACTOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT (CLS) FOR THE INDOOR SIMULATED MARKSMANSHIP TRAINERS (ISMT) AND INFANTRY SQUAD TRAINERS (IST) SOL M67854-98-R-2157 DUE 082498 POC Jeff Campbell (703) 784-5822 ext.234 or FAX (703) 784-5826 E-MAIL: E-mail Contract Specialist, campbellj@quantico.usmc.mil. The Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) intends to negotiate a sole source contract with FATS, Inc. of Suwanee, GA to conduct the Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve, and Army National Guard's Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainers (ISMT) and Infantry Squad Trainers (IST) for a base year and four option years. The maintenance concept for the ISMT/IST is based on two levels of maintenance, organizational and depot. The CLS shall consist of program management, depot operations, spares management, engineering support services, integrated logistic support services, and sustainment/refresher training. The CLS requirement was originally synopsized in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) on 19 December 1995. MARCORSYSCOM's letter dated 14 March 1996 offered potential offerors the opportunity to receive a copy of the Government owned Contract Maintenance Data for solicitation M67854-96-R-2019. A Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire, dated 24 June 1996, was forwarded to all interested potential offerors. MARCORSYSCOM was uncertain if the Government owned drawing package was sufficient to conduct a full and open competition. Therefore, the Government requested interested offerors to supply information on whether their company could provide CLS with the information that was provided to them. Based on this feedback, the Government concluded that the data package was insufficient for parties other than the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), FATS, to provide CLS support at that time. Since then, the OEM FATS has updated and corrected the depot maintenance manual, and other technical reprocurement data sent out under the previous CLS contract. However, these changes did not contain sufficient information needed to perform component level repairs within circuit cards and electronic assemblies. The original contract did not state for the OEM to provide that data to the government; therefore, a source other than the OEM still will not be able to effectively perform certain repairs to critical components and system software. The Marine Corps projects to begin upgrading the ISMT/ISTs in Year 2000. The intention is to have systems that have digital graphics and are High Level Architecture (HLA) compliant in accordance with the DoD Modeling and Simulation Master Plan (DoD 5000.59-P, dated October 1995). This should eliminate proprietary data within the computer portion of the ISMT/ISTs. The objective of this upgrade is to use little or no proprietary data; to include a design replacement for the weapon interface cards and procure complete production level data of any cards. This upgrade is intended to be a full and open competition. No RFP is available for competitive bidding on the CLS; however, interested parties are encouraged to submit a statement of capability by no later than close of business on 24 AUG 98 to the Contact Person listed above. See Numbered Notes 22 and 26!! Posted 08/06/98 (W-SN233552). (0218)

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