Attachment 05-Solicitation Process Description.pdf

SOLICITATION PROCESS

This section provides important information on the requirements for a submission to this solicitation and the process that will occur after the solicitation is made public.

Access to technical drawings of the MATCH ballistic headform is required to make a complete and accurate forecast of cost of the work to be performed when creating a submission to this solicitation. These technical drawings are subject to a process of controlled access to unclassified government information. Determination to release the MATCH headform technical drawings to a requestor will be determined by the government in adherence to the following distribution statement.

CUI//Distribution D: Authorized to Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors only [critical technology, 6 June 2023]. Other requests for this document shall be referred to Program Executive Office Solder (PEO-Soldier), Product Manager Soldier Protective Equipment (PdM SPE).

Documents received that are labeled with the above limited distribution statement are also subject to requirements for the handling and destruction of unclassified limited distribution documents. Unclassified limited distribution documents must not be shared without authorization from the named authority and must be destroyed by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document.

Please review the attachments to this solicitation for information on how to request access to the unclassified controlled technical documentation. The process the government will use to determine acceptance or denial of the request is described in “Enclosure 1 - Notice of Limited Distribution Materials”. After reviewing Enclosure 1, the request for the supporting technical drawings must be made by submitting your request to the government using form “Enclosure 2

- Request for Access to Limited Distribution Materials”.

This solicitation will be conducted in three phases beginning on the date of the announcement of the solicitation.

Phase 1 (August 2 – August 20, 2023): Announcement of the solicitation and acceptance of requests for access to the supporting technical documentation.

Phase 2 (August 21 – August 27, 2023): Government review of the requests to receive the supporting technical documentation, notification to the requesting vendors of the government’s acceptance or denial to receive the technical documents, and release of the technical documents to the accepted vendors. The technical documents will be released to all accepted vendors simultaneously.

Phase 3 (August 28 – September 10, 2023): Open window for submission of bids to vendors who received an acceptance to gain access the technical drawings during phase 2.

The government reserves the right to request an onsite demonstration of the vendors manufacturing capabilities at the vendor facility prior to the contract award. During the visit, inquiries may be made regarding the vendors labor resources and expertise in engineering design, its materials, machining equipment, computing and software resources, and any other aspects related to the vendors capability to successfully meet the performance requirements and delivery date.