ATC Ballistic Testing of Body Armor

The U.S. Army Contracting Command- Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) established a Master Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for non-personal ballistic lot acceptance testing of personal body armor. The contract covers three primary commodity categories: soft body armor, hard body armor, and helmets. Testing services are performed in accordance with National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) standards, as well as U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) protocols. The contract's total shared ceiling is $9,900,000, with an initial award date of May 16, 2019, and a last order date of May 15, 2023.

Initial task orders under this vehicle were consistently structured as $1,000 firm fixed-price minimum guarantee deliveries, awarded to multiple prime contractors including Chesapeake Testing Services (National Technical Systems), H.P. White Laboratory, and Oregon Ballistic Laboratories. Each delivery order had an identical performance period through May 15, 2020, and was issued by the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command. The contract vehicle does not utilize a specific small business set-aside, and the place of performance is primarily at the contractors' facilities, with a focus on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The underlying North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541380 for Testing Laboratories, with a small business size standard of $15,000,000.