AMPV Production Market Survey 2025.pdf

MARKET SURVEY

Request for Information

AMPV Full Rate Production

DESCRIPTION OF INTENT

The Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS), Product Manager Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) is conducting this Market Survey to assess domestic U.S. industry interest and current market manufacturing capability to produce future AMPV vehicles.

AMPV DESCRIPTION

The AMPV is a tracked vehicle and the materiel solution to replace the Army’s Armored Personnel Carrier (M113) Family of Vehicles (FoV) within the Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT). There are five AMPV variants (General Purpose, Medical Evacuation, Medical Treatment, Mission Command, and Mortar Carrier) replacing the corresponding M113 FoV operational support mission roles.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The submission of information in response to this Market Survey is for planning and informational purposes only, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the U.S.

Government (USG) to procure any items/services described herein, or for the USG to pay for the information received.

Responding companies are asked to provide information about relevant experience and ability to produce heavy ground combat vehicles. A complete Technical Data Package (TDP) is not currently available for the AMPV vehicle. The Performance Specification is not being provided at the time of Market Survey.

It is a requirement of this Market Survey that a contractor for any potential contract for AMPV production possess the means to properly store and work on information and hardware classified at the SECRET/No Foreign Nationals (NOFORN) level.

Participation in this Market Survey is strictly voluntary and the USG will not reimburse contractors for any cost incurred. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the USG.

This is NOT a pre-solicitation notice. This notice does not constitute an Invitation for Bid or Request for Proposal and is not to be construed as a solicitation, and no award shall be made on the basis of this notice. There is no formal solicitation available at this time, no solicitation will be issued against this notice, and this request for information does not obligate the USG to issue a solicitation.

Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. This market survey is not a request to seek contractor interest in being placed on a solicitation mailing list.

Respondents shall not be notified of the results of the survey or results of information submitted.

Telephone or email inquiries will not be honored.

DATA MARKING

The U.S. Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this survey.

The U.S. Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. 1905 to protect information qualifying as PROPRIETARY under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the U.S. Government is willing to accept any trade secret or confidential restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following:

Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data as trade secret or confidential with the restrictive legend (all caps) PROPRIETARY with any explanatory text, so that the U.S.

Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protected.

In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials that are truly trade secret or confidential (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as PROPRIETARY may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response - see item 9 under Instructions for Completing the Questionnaire, below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected.

The U.S. Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the U.S. Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the U.S. Government will not be protected once in the public domain.

Data already in the possession of the U.S. Government will be protected in accordance with the U.S. Governments rights in the data.

Confidential data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the U.S. Government, shall contain any restrictive legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and at the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for portions only of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends PROPRIETARY DATA BEGINS: and PROPRIETARY DATA ENDS.

In any reproductions of technical data or any portions thereof subject to asserted restrictions, the U.S. Government shall also reproduce the asserted restriction legend and any explanatory text.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING SURVEY:

Please respond to every question.

1. Font size no smaller than 12 and no more than 25 pages total.

2. Number each response with the appropriate question number.

3. You do not have to repeat the question in your response.

4. If you cannot answer the question, please indicate “No Response.”

5. If a response will satisfy another question, state: “See response to question XX.”

6. All questions will pertain to building all five AMPV variants.

7. If your sales media and/or manuals contain a restricted distribution statement, issue a release statement indicating that the restricted material may be distributed to Army personnel involved with this Market Survey.

8. Spell out any acronyms in their first instance.

9. Clearly mark any proprietary information. If applicable the front page of your response package should state” “Proprietary Information Contained.” Provide a release statement indicating that the proprietary information may be distributed to Army personnel involved with this Market Investigation.

10. Responses to this request for information should be sent electronically using DoD SAFE located at https://safe.apps.mil/ to Lisa Roulo-Lo Savio at lisa.r.roulo-losavio.civ@army.mil. Please title contractor response as “[Company's Name] response to Market Survey – AMPV Full Rate Production.” If you require a link to be able to submit your response via DoD SAFE, please send an email request to the above representative(s) at least 3 working days in advance.

Responses are due no later than 5:00 pm EST on 04 February 2026.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION:

1. Company Name

a. Name:

b. Mailing Address:

c. Company Website:

d. Location of facilities:

e. CAGE:

f. SAM Unique Entity ID (UEI):

g. Business Type for NAICS Code 336992 Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and

Tank Component Manufacturing (Check all that apply);

8(a) Minority Owned Disabled Veteran Small Business Hub Zone Small-Disadvantaged Large Business Women Owned

2. Point of Contact for this Questionnaire

a. Name:

b. Title:

c. Company Responsibility/Position:

d. Telephone/Fax Numbers:

e. Email address:

3. MARKET SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

Manufacturing:

1. Describe your experience with production of armored heavy ground combat vehicles. Describe the complexity including the age of the equipment and the work performed. Describe the facilities, tools and equipment which have been used to build the system(s).

2. Describe your capabilities regarding welding of DoD materials. Are you certified to MIL-STD 3040 (steel), 3057 (Aluminum). And can you conform to standards specific to military applications? How many welders are currently certified for which materials (including armored grades)? How many certified weld inspectors are on site etc.?

3. Describe your experience integrating, installing and verifying functionality of Government furnished communication systems hardware and battle command systems in heavy ground combat vehicles. Address the platform and complexity of the effort.

4. Describe your experience in building and testing a heavy ground combat vehicle to a Technical Data Package (TDP). Include the weight class, quantity of systems and timeframes for which your experience applies.

5. Could you produce this vehicle with a full product level TDP? How would you produce this vehicle with something less than a full product level TDP, where some elements would be built to a performance specification? What technical challenges or risks would be involved in doing so?

6. Describe the maximum size system/sub-system which your company has fabricated and/or refurbished. Please describe the machining capabilities used to support these efforts, and the organic or external resources available to service and repair machines.

7. Describe the facilities, tools, and equipment available to produce the AMPV vehicles. Include description and location of facilities for storage of completed vehicles; shipping/receiving of vehicles and/or structures; and testing and verification capabilities for the automotive, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence systems (C5ISR), Nuclear Biological and Chemical (NBC) systems, and other electronic systems.

8. Describe your ability to adapt existing facilities, tools, equipment, processes, production of hardware etc. to manufacture the AMPV vehicles. Include estimated timeline and milestones necessary to begin production.

9. If existing production lines could not be used to build the AMPV vehicles, specify where and in what facility (new construction, sub-contractor facility, etc.) they could be produced. Include descriptions of the facilities, tools and equipment that would be used. Include estimated timeline and milestones to begin production .

10. Describe your systems for material tracking on the production line.

11. Describe the domestic -vs- foreign breakout of your supply base. If foreign sourcing restrictions applied, what materials/suppliers do you anticipate having to re-source for AMPV?

12. Describe your timeline for when you would be able to start delivering (DD250 off the production line) the AMPV from contract award. Include potential contract award dates (or relative timeframes) for overall production contract, long lead material time frames, facilities prep, workforce hiring/training, etc. Describe any relevant material or supply chain concerns that may be encountered.

13. Describe the skill set of the workforce that would be used to perform the AMPV work, including technical, management and labor. What organic or subcontracted resources are you able to leverage in the region to address skilled labor turnover?

14. Have you participated in a public private partnership in the past? Would you be interested in a partnership arrangement with a U.S. Army maintenance depot?

Would you be interested in a partnership arrangement with a U.S. Army development activity to re-develop vehicle software? If yes, please describe the potential partnership experience or expectations.

Engineering:

15. Describe your Configuration Management process with regards to heavy ground combat vehicles. Please include how it addresses Requests For Variances (RFVs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and contract modifications.

16. Describe your production support engineering capability in producing heavy ground combat vehicles, including subcomponents.

Contractor Business Systems:

17. Would you be willing to enter into a fixed price vehicle production contract with multiple option years? What production quantity would you expect in order to enter into a fixed price contract? What is your ideal contract length at a fixed price agreement?

18. What has your on-time delivery record been for the past 5 years, cite some comparable contracts.

19. Does your company use a cost system that has been certified by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)? Within the past 10 years, has your company performed a contract that had full Earned Value Management (EVM) requirements to include a Validated EVM System? If so, is the Validation still current? If not, do you have a plan to obtain a Validated EVM System?

20. Describe your supply chain management system and experience in parts procurement for heavy ground combat vehicles.

21. Does your company have a Property Accountability System in accordance with FAR 52.245-1 to track Government Furnished Material (GFM)? If yes, describe how your company’s Property Accountability System is in accordance with FAR 52.245-1 to track GFM.

22. Identify if you have a facility clearance and what level of classification you can process at your contractor facility. Describe how your company handles classified data and hardware. Response must include program title, contract number, facilities, materials, equipment, and personnel. Do not submit classified data in your response.

23. Describe the breakout of your current customers, DoD vs commercial. If contracted for AMPV, what percentage of your business would it represent?

What have you experienced related to sub-contractor turn-over in the last 5 years?

Quality Assurance:

24. Describe how you would develop and qualify your manufacturing processes and build checklists for the vehicles to be produced against. Include timeline and milestones.

25. What quality system is your facility certified to? If not, what quality plan do you operate under? Explain how it would be utilized in relation to the AMPV vehicles.

26. Describe your approach to in-house quality testing to include test facilities and fixtures. If in house testing is not possible what alternative test capabilities or arrangements does your firm utilize?

27. What has your quality record been for the past five years, cite some comparable contracts and provide metrics. What quality tools (Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA), Production Parts Approval Process (PPAP), etc.) have you implemented to reduce risk in regards to defects/non-conformances etc. Describe your relevant experience with and willingness to work with DCMA to resolve quality issues?

28. Describe the number of Tier 1s you currently have, and the relationship (do you compete with your Tier 1s; does that get in the way of getting critical information whether it be details on cost, sources, issues, material, systems, etc, and if so what is the work-around, or impacts if there are none).

29. Describe your receiving inspection process for incoming material? How does it differ between CFM and GFM? How does it differ with COTS, Consumables and low dollar items? How is First In First Out implemented for the items listed above?

30. Describe your experience with production qualification testing and follow-on production testing in a leading or supporting role.