U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Acquisition Center (AMSTA-AQ-DE), Warren, MI 48397-5000

A -- RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING AND EVALUATION OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS SOL DAAE07-99-R-L004 DUE 011199 POC Mr. Joseph H. Smith [810] 574-6987 WEB: Click here to visit the TACOM-Warren Acquisition Center, http://www.tacom.army.mil/acqcen/. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Joseph H. Smith, Contract Specialist, smithjh@tacom,army.mil. The contractor shall provide 400,000 man-hours of work directive controlled level of effort (supplies and services) to provide research, development, testing and evaluation in support of fuels and lubricants. The contractor shall perform effort to provide technical data as required by the Army, other branches of the Armed Forces and Federal Agencies to improve the technology of fuels, lubricants, power transmission fluids, corrosion preventatives and specialty compounds and energy conversion for use in military materiel and in support of the Army's mission as Executive Agent for ground fuels and lubricants in the Department of Defense (DOD). This effort will require integrating basic and applied research, exploratory and advanced development and providing investigations and evaluations associated with engineering support activities in the field of fuels, lubricants and related materials for military vehicles and equipment. The contractor shall conduct the research effort in an integrated and homogeneous manner to assure that the totality of a complete system is always a prerequisite consideration. This takes into consideration essential functional interactions that exist between the different product technologies (i.e., fuels, lubricants and fluids and materiel systems). The period of performance is 60 months. The contract will be a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, level of effort for 400,000 man-hours. There will be an initial award with an option for the remaining hours to be exercised in increments for five years. The Government intends to negotiate the proposed contract on a sole source basis with Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source. The solicitation will be available on the TACOM-Warren Acquisition Center webpage on or about 25 November 1998. See numbered Notes 22 and 26. Posted 11/05/98 (W-SN269030). (0309)

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