Aberdeen Test Center Machine Shop RFI.pdf

Procurement Type: Request for Information (RFI)

Title: Aberdeen Test Center Machine Shop Support Services

Response Date: 11 June 2026 at 2:00 PM Eastern

Primary Point of Contact: Noah Lane noah.r.lane.civ@army.mil.

Primary Contracting Officer: Todd M. Strasavich todd.m.strasavich.civ@army.mil

Description:

Summary: The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005, is posting this RFI for Machine Shop Support Services as a means of conducting market research to identify Small Business vendors having an interest and capabilities that can support the ATC machine shop with the requirements below.

Background: ATC is one of Department of War’s (DoW) foremost test and training ranges supporting both military and commercial materiel developers by testing a broad spectrum of equipment throughout the life cycle, from concept through deployment.

ATC is a tenant on APG and encompasses land and water totaling approximately 70,000 acres with an extensive inventory of facilities. ATC is organized by core competencies, and the contractor shall provide services to the following cores as part of an integrated team: Automotive, Command Staff, Live Fire, Virtual Test & Electronics, and Warfighter.

This is a non-personal service(s) contract to provide welding, machining, painting, and fabrication services to the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Welding Fabrication, Machining and Paint Shops.

Information Requested: The Government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to support the Aberdeen Test Center machine shop. Please reply with information addressing the requirements defined within the Performance Work Statement (PWS) and respond to the attachment labeled Technical Questions Sheet. Response must also address at a minimum the following items:

Request for Information: Please respond to the following in Arial font size 12

1. Point of Contact Information:

a. Company:

b. Address:

c. Point of Contact:

d. Phone Number:

e. Fax Number:

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f. Email Address:

g. CAGE Code:

2. Please identify your company’s size standard per the primary NAICS code of 333992 Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing. The Small Business Size Standard for this NAICS code is 1,250 or fewer employees on average.

For more information on small business, refer to:

https://www.sba.gov/document/support--table-size-standards.

If your company is a small business, indicate whether any of the small business categories below apply:

8(a):

Small Disadvantaged Business (DB):

Woman-Owned Small Business:

Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone):

Veteran-Owned Small Business:

Service-Disable Veteran-Owned Small Business:

3. If you identify your company as a SB or any of the SB subcategories as stipulated in Question 3, is your company intending to submit a proposal as a prime contractor?

4. Is your company capable of performing at least 51% of the work? If so, please explain how your company will perform the work within the parameters of the Ostensible Subcontractor Affiliation rule.

5. Does your company possess the capabilities to provide the entire range of products and services discussed in this RFI? If NO, please provide specific capabilities that you intend to provide?

6. Please provide the following information for up to 3 examples of similar work that your company has performed as a prime or a sub-contractor:

a. Contract number(s).

b. Aggregate dollar value of entire contract.

c. Aggregate dollar value of task orders as a prime or sub-contractor.

d. Number of task orders as the prime or sub-contractor.

e. Was this work similar in scope?

7. Is your company planning on business arrangements with other companies? If so, please list the process used in selecting the members.

8. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other business arrangements to satisfy the requirements above.

Offerors are encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size based https://www.sba.gov/document/support--table-size-standards upon the NAICS code of the work that the team member may be doing.

9. Please provide additional information that you believe we should know about your company in support of this RFI.

10. If applicable, please provide comments and/or questions on the PWS.

11. Please indicate if you are a small or large business.

12.Please provide company website address.

This is a RFI only, which, as part of market research, is being issued in accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 10. This is not a solicitation/request for proposal and no contract may be awarded from this Sources Sought. All comments and questions should be sent to Noah Lane, Contract Specialist, at noah.r.lane.civ@army.mil.

All questions and comments must be in Microsoft Word or Excel and sent to the emails listed above; no telephone calls will be accepted. No meetings shall be requested or held related to this RFI. All responses should be electronically submitted to Noah Lane, Contract Specialist, at noah.r.lane.civ@army.mil and Contract Officer Todd Strasavich at todd.m.strasavich.civ@army.mil and received no later than, June 11, 2026, at 2:00 PM EDT. All data received in response to this RFI that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this request, nor will the Government compensate any respondent for any costs incurred in developing the information provided to the Government.

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