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J -- CONTRACTOR LOGISTICAL SUPPORT FOR THE MARINE CORPS INDOOR SIMULATED MARKSMANSHIP TRAINER/INFANTRY SQUAD TRAINER SOL M67854-97-C-2008 DUE 070699 POC Terence J. McGinn -- Fax (703) 784-5826 WEB: na, na. E-MAIL: na, na. The Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM) intends to negotiate an extension to contract M67854-97-C-2008 with FATS, Inc. of Suwanee, GA for the continued Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainers (ISMT) and Infantry Squad Trainers (IST). The length of this extension will be for two years while a competitive acquisition is conducted for a combination of an enhanced ISMT/IST and CLS though spares utilizing the enhanced weapons and systems. 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. As a result, contract M67854-97-C-2008 was awarded to FATS Inc in August 1997. Since then, the OEM FATS has updated and corrected the depot maintenance manual, and other technical reprocurement data sent out under the previous Request For Information questionnaire. However, these changes did not contain sufficient information needed to perform component level repairs within circuit cards and electronic assemblies. The original production 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 repairsto critical components and system software. The Marine Corps projects to begin upgrading the ISMT/ISTs in Year 2000 with the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer-Enhanced (ISMT-E). The intention is to have systems that are based on three dimensional simulation and are High Level Architecture (HLA) compliant in accordance with the DoD Modeling and Simulation Master Plan (DoD 5000.59-P, dated October 1995). One objective of this upgrade is to use an open systems design approach, which will alleviate the Government's dependence on proprietary data. The ISMT-E will require the vendor to perform CLS on all current and enhanced ISMT/ISTs. This upgrade is intended to be a full and open competition with an target award date of January 2001. No solicitation document exists at this time for the ISMT-E. See ISMT-E posted in CBDNet on 27 May 1999. See Numbered Notes 22. Posted 06/04/99 (W-SN339014). (0155)

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