-- SPECIAL NOTICE OF ANTICIPATED COMMERCIAL WORK BY THE US ARMY YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ

Notice Date

October 24, 2001

Contracting Office

US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, Yuma Contracting Division, ATTN: AMSSB-ACY, Building 2100, Ocotillo Street, Yuma, AZ 85365-9106

ZIP Code

85365-9106

E-Mail Address

US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center, Yuma Contracting (ann.sanchez@yuma.army.mil)

Description

U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (USAYPG), Arizona anticipates providing services to commercial entities under the provisions of Title 10 of the United States Code, Section 2861. The general nature of the anticipated commercial work is as follows: USAYPG pl ans, executes, and reports the results of Developmental Tests (DT) and integrated DT/OT (Operational Tests) on a variety of materiel including Artillery, Aviation, Air Delivery, Automotive, Combat Systems, General/Soldier Equipment, and Munitions using sta te-of-the-art shared technical support infrastructure and an extensive complex of in-place test facilities, test courses, environmental chambers, and firing ranges. These existing capabilities combined with USAYPG s mission of being DOD s natural environm ental tester with over 800,000 acres of varied desert terrain (Arizona), over 500,000 acres of varied Arctic terrain (Ft. Greely, Alaska), and access to Tropic test areas provide a unique combination of single source capabilities which can provide a wide s pectrum of services from real-world environment testing through simulated (chamber) testing to support modeling and simulation effects. These services and facilities are available to all Department of Defense agencies, other United States government agenc ies, foreign governments, universities, research and development laboratories, and private industry on a cost reimbursable basis. Private sector entities are invited to submit expressions of capability to perform services of the same general nature as lis ted above. This information will be maintained in a file and made available to prospective commercial customers for their use in determining if private sector enterprises may be able to satisfy their requirements. Information may be submitted at any time to Commander, USAYPG, Command Technology Directorate, ATTN: CSTE-DTC-YP-CD (Gloria Porter), Yuma, Arizona 85365. Questions concerning this notice may be directed to POC, Gloria Porter at (928) 328-3298, by facsimile (928) 328-3421, or by email Gloria.Po rter@yuma.army.mil.

Web Link

US Army Robert Morris Acquisition Center -- Yuma Contracting (http://www.yuma.army.mil/contracting/notices.html)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011026/SPMSC010.HTM (D-297 SN5114A7)