ASR-9 MDR CCA MarketSurvey_Final.docx

MARKET SURVEY ANNOUNCEMENT

Airport Surveillance Radar-9 (ASR-9) Maintenance Display Processor (MDP), BNC Input Panel (BIP) and Channel & Weather Level Selector Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs)

1. Introduction The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a requirement to acquire the Maintenance Display Processor (MDP), BNC Input Panel (BIP), and the Channel & Weather Level Selector Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs) to support the replacement of the Airport Surveillance Radar-9 (ASR-9) Maintenance Display Unit (MDU). The purpose of this market survey is to assess industry’s capability to manufacture the Maintenance Display Processor (MDP), BNC Input Panel (BIP), and the Channel & Weather Level Selector CCAs, and to determine if adequate competition exists among qualified small business concerns as a set-aside procurement.

2. Background The MDU subsystem serves the purpose of displaying selected targets and weather video for maintenance and troubleshooting purposes. The Government has identified critical deficiencies and necessary improvements to the legacy MDU subsystem to maintain operational readiness of the ASR-9 system, upgrade the legacy MDU to leverage technological advances in performance, and facilitate its maintenance and serviceability by improvements to its design.

Draft manufacturing specifications and bill of materials (BOM) are included as part of Section 10, Attachments.

3. Nature of Competition The Government has not determined the acquisition approach to be utilized at this time. However, should adequate interest exist among qualified small businesses, the Government intends to set this procurement aside for small business participation only. If there is insufficient interest in the marketplace to enable a set-aside acquisition strategy, the Government may elect to broaden the competitive range by designating this acquisition as a full and open competitive procurement. This survey is being conducted in accordance with FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) Section 3.2.1.2.1.

4. Standard Language Vendors are hereby advised that:

(a) This is not a screening information request (SIR) or request for proposal (RFP) of any kind;

(b) The Government is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals;

(c) The Government will not pay for any information received or costs incurred in preparing the response to the market survey;

(d) Any costs associated with the market survey submittal is solely at the interested vendor’s expense;

(e) Any information provided in response to this market survey will be used for Government informational purposes only;

(f) Any proprietary information submitted in response to this market survey must be clearly identified and appropriately marked; and

(g) This market survey is only open to companies based and operating within the United States and its territories. Foreign Entities and Foreign Nationals, as defined in the AMS T3.6.4, are not eligible.

5. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code The applicable NAICS code for this procurement is 334418 - Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing.

6. Export Control For Official Use Only Information or Sensitive Security Information Primary radar technology and documentation, including specifications and drawings, are classified as For Official Use Only (FOUO) information or Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and are controlled by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Section 2751, et seq.) or the Export Administration Act of 1979 (Title 50, U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq.), as amended.

These export control measures apply to all FOUO and SSI information contained within the Manufacturing Specification (Attachments 1, 2 and 32) and BOM (Attachment 4, 5 and 6). Instructions to obtain these attachments can be found in Attachment 8. Attachments 1 – 6 will only be released to prospective offerors upon the Contracting Officer’s receipt and acceptance of prospective offeror’s completed and fully executed Attachments 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4.

The request for documentation requires the completion of Attachments 8.1 – 8.4. These attachments must be submitted to the Contracting Officer, Craig Mayo at Craig.Mayo@faa.gov prior to the market survey response submission deadline, as specified in Section 9.

7. Submittal Requirements for Market Survey The Vendor’s response to this market survey must address the technical/performance requirements as defined in the market survey and referenced attachments.

Interested vendors are required to respond to the following questions and data requests:

1. Provide a description of technical expertise and experience with the design, manufacturing, and testing of Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs).

2. Provide the maximum ball grid array (BGA) solder ball count and pitch you have worked with on previous projects.

3. Describe how the Offeror will identify and use Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components/parts in its proposed solution.

4. Describe the Vendor’s capabilities to acquire parts/components in the current global chip shortage environment. NOTE: For the purpose of this planned procurement, the Government requires interested vendors to ONLY use “authorized distributors” as sources of required CCA components.

5. Describe the Vendor’s inventory control program. How does the Vendor identify suitable sources of supply, prevent the use of counterfeit parts, and verify the use of parts suitable to support specification and performance parameters?

6. What schedule risk mitigation practices does the vendor use to reduce the impact of long lead time material shortages?

7. Does the Vendor have experience performing under FAA or Government contracts? If so, describe the nature of such contracts and identify the Government program name, contract number, and period of performance.

8. Does the Vendor have a quality assurance plan (QAP)? Is the Vendor’s QAP compliant with ISO 9001 (e.g., ISO 9001-2015)?

9. Does the Vendor have the capability to perform functional testing of CCAs in-house?

10. Provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) price to include a unit price estimate for first article unit(s) and production units. ROM will be used for Government planning purposes only.

11. Identify any warranty policies and quantity discounts offered.

8. Questions and Comments Questions or comments regarding this announcement must be emailed to Craig Mayo at Craig.Mayo@faa.gov. Please use the Market Survey Comments and Questions Matrix (Attachment 7) to submit all questions and comments on the market survey. Refer to Section 9 for the submittal deadline. Any questions received and responses provided will be posted on the SAM.gov website. It is the responsibility of the interested vendor to monitor the site for applicable questions and responses that the FAA will post.

You are encouraged to submit nonproprietary information to the greatest extent possible; however, if you do submit proprietary information, per Section 4, please clearly mark all proprietary information included in the responses as such.

9. Delivery of Submittals Submit electronic responses to this market survey in a Portable Document Format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) format to Craig Mayo at Craig.Mayo@faa.gov , by the date and time identified below. Responses should not exceed 10 pages in length. Page size must be 8-1/2 by 11 inches with one-inch margins. The text font must be in Times New Roman 12-point. Please note that the FAA email server restricts file sizes to 10 MB per email. Files larger than 10MB must be submitted in more than one email.

Vendor responses must be submitted via email to Craig.Mayo@faa.gov by 4:00PM EST September 29, 2023 and must include:

1. Company name, point(s) of contact, telephone number(s), email and mailing addresses; and

2. DUNS, TIN and Cage Code

Please find the following schedule with applicable due dates for each phase of the Market Survey:

· August 25, 2023 by 4:00PM EST – Market survey release

· September 1, 2023 by 4:00PM EST – Vendors to submit completed FOUO/SSI documentation (Attachments 8.1 – 8.4)

· September 6, 2023 by 4:00PM EST – FAA releases technical data package (Attachments 1 – 6).

· September 15, 2023 by 4:00PM EST - Vendors to provide comments and/or questions to FAA.

· September 22, 2023 by 4:00PM EST - FAA posts non-proprietary responses to vendor comments and/or questions on the SAM.gov website.

· September 29, 2023 by 4:00PM EST - Vendor to submit market survey response.

Responses to this market survey will be used for informational purposes only. All responses must be submitted in writing and in the English language. Oral responses to this market survey are not allowable. The acquisition strategy for this procurement has not been determined at this time; however, if the FAA makes the determination to proceed with an acquisition, either a set-aside, unrestricted competition, or single source strategy may be chosen. More information will be furnished as part of the planned SIR release.

The FAA will not release or distribute market survey responses. However, respondents must identify and clearly mark any proprietary information contained in their submissions.

10. Attachments Attachment 1: MDP CCA Manufacturing Specification (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 2: BIP CCA Manufacturing Specification (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 3: CH&WEA-LVL-SEL CCA Manufacturing Specification (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 4: MDP CCA BOM (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 5: BIP CCA BOM (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 6: CH&WEA-LVL-SEL CCA BOM (Sensitive Security Information) Attachment 7: Market Survey Comment and Question Matrix Attachment 8: Instructions to Obtain Export Controlled Information

8.1 – Document Security Notice (DSN)

8.2 – Non-Disclosure Agreement and Non-Use Agreement (NDA)

8.3 – Consolidated Employee Screening List Consolidated Employee Screening List shall include a list of employees with access to the documents and a preliminary list of subcontractors, if applicable. If subcontractors are used, please submit an additional Business Declaration Form for the subcontractor(s) as well.

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