Attachment 4 SPQ-15 Questionnaire.docx

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE QUESTIONNAIRE:

1. Number each response with the appropriate question number.

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

3. If you cannot answer the question, please indicate "No Response."

4. If a response will satisfy another question, state: "See response to question XX."

5. Include relevant sales media and product manuals. If providing an ACROBAT formatted manual, annotate the manual to indicate which material is applicable to the questions. If preferred, include Internet Web links to locations where animations/videos may be viewed.

6. 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 Navy personnel involved with this Sources Survey.

7. Spell out any acronyms in their first instance.

8. Clearly mark any confidential information. If applicable the front page of your response package should state "Confidential Information Contained."

Provide a release statement indicating that the confidential information may distributed to Navy personnel involved with this Market Survey.

A. GENERAL

1. Manufacturer

a. Name

b. Mailing Address

c. Cage Code (if any)

d. Website

2. Personnel Responding to Questionnaire

a. Name

b. Title

c. Company Responsibility/Position

d. Telephone/Fax Numbers

e. E-Mail Address

3. Please answer the following questions (DO NOT SKIP ANY). Is your firm a:

a. Small Business: YES |_| NO |_|

b. Small Disadvantaged Business: YES |_| NO |_|

c. Woman Owned Small Business: YES |_| NO |_|

d. HUBZone Certified Small Business: YES |_| NO |_|

e. Veteran-Owned Small business: YES |_| NO |_|

f. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business: YES |_| NO |_|

4. Is your firm currently certified by SBA as an 8(a) concern? YES |_| NO |_|

If Yes, please give us the name of your Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Specialist along with address information:

MED Specialist:

SBA District Office address:

Graduation Date:

5. Does your company regularly engage in the business of providing production and engineering support similar to what is described herein? YES |_| NO |_|

6. How long has your company provided these or highly similar services? ___ Yr(s) ___ Mo(s)

7. Please indicate the percentage of the actual work requirements for these items that you would intend to perform as the Prime Contractor. ______%

8. What additional data beyond the GFI provided as part of this RFI, if any, is necessary to successfully produce AN/SPQ-15 hardware and perform the required CSEA efforts.

9. Does your organization have any feedback on the feasibility of the Government's plan to procure BTP AN/SPQ-15 hardware? Are there any areas of ambiguity that need to be clarified for the definition of BTP? Are there other specific concerns related to procuring BTP that should be taken into consideration?

10. Does your organization have any feedback on the feasibility of the Government's plan to procure AN/SPQ-15 CSEA services within a BTP hardware production contract? Are there any areas of ambiguity that need to be clarified for the definition of CSEA? Are there other specific concerns related to procuring CSEA that should be taken into consideration?

11. Do you have past experience procuring/producing BTP hardware? If so, are there any lessons learned that the Government should incorporate into the contracting strategy?

12. Are there any cost/pricing considerations you would like to bring to the Government's attention? Do you have any recommendations on the structure of the requirements or the overall contracting strategy that would reduce the total price? What performance incentive structure and growth would your organization recommend and why?

13. What would your organization recommend for an approach for sustainment support and corrective maintenance of fielded AN/SPQ-15 hardware? Explain your organizations processes for Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) and how it relates to implementation of cost reduction initiatives and readiness improvements? What data/reporting/tracking metrics would you recommend and how could the Government utilize performance incentives?

B. PRODUCTION CONSIDERATION

1. Have you ever manufactured any of the supplies listed in the attached SOW or a similar systems; explain what supplies you have produced and when was the last time you were in production?

a) Part Description (List Information about related supplies you have produced)

i. Model number

ii. Product specification/drawing number and version

b) Physical Characteristics

i. Size

ii. Weight

iii. Power Consumption

iv. Cooling Requirements

2. Who has purchased these supplies? Provide explanation, including contract numbers.

a) In what quantities?

b) Over what time period?

c) How many units have been produced in the current configuration?

d) What was the average maximum quantity of supplies in a production lot?

3. What is the production lead-time after receipt of an order/option exercise (days)?

4. What is your production capability (e.g. how many units are you capable of producing per month, per quarter?)

5. What is a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost per unit(s)?

6. If you have produced any of these units, have you conducted first article testing? If so, when was this performed and what were the results? Please provide a copy of you latest first article test report.

7. If you have produced any of these units, what was the extent of production acceptance testing?

8. If you have produced any of these units, what was the extent of environmental quality testing?

9. Does this company have the capability to seek security clearance for its personnel and its facility?

10. Describe your company’s deficiency resolution process, from identification to resolution.

11. If you have produced any of these units, what was the extent of manufacturing automation or robotics?

12. What would your organization recommend for production lead times to delivery of a system to a shipyard or land-based facility for a AN/SPQ-15 and why? Would the delivery date Months After Option Exercise (MAOE) decrease based on a learning curve over time? Would Delivery Date MAOE adjust based on the number of units, potentially similar and different variants, being exercised at the same time?

13. Would your organization recommend procuring shipsets in a bundle or individual based on the needed Delivery Date? If recommendation is as a bundle of systems, what is your recommendation for structuring the bundle so that it can adapt to the appropriate number of systems?

14 What would your organization recommend as necessary First Article Qualification Test (FAQT) and Environmental Qualification Testing (EQT) for production of the AN/SPQ-15 and why?

15. What support equipment and/or test assets would your organization utilize to support hardware production, quality assessments, maintenance, and repair? If support equipment and/or test assets are required, would existing Contractor assets be available? If not, what would be your approach be to obtain the equipment?

C. PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS

1. Describe your manufacturing capability and capacity to produce these units.

2. Describe your process/procedures for new product realization (i.e. what you do to successfully manufacture a product that you have not made before).

3. Describe your company’s production floor layout; listing and special tooling or equipment within the facility.

4. Detail your company’s extent of knowledge regarding military standards.

5. What capital investments/improvements does your organization already have planned for manufacturing facilities? How would preparing for this competition change those plans? How would being awarded a contract change those plans?

6. What flexibility does your organization have in production processes to adjust/adapt to increasing/decreasing number of production units?

D. PACKAGING

1. Describe your company's experience with understanding and satisfying "military packaging" requirements such as the addition of special packaging requirements and packing instructions from the SOW.

E. ENVIRONMENTAL

1. Does your facility have the capability to provide the necessary environmental controls during the production process for: humidity, temperature, moisture, and air quality? Describe the facility and equipment in place.

2. If you do not already have controls in place, do you have plans and the capability to build a work area with the proper environmental controls?

F. QUALITY

1. Does your plant and system meet all ISO 9001:2015 certifications and standards? Provide explanation.

2. How long have you been certified? When was your last certification audit?

3. How many units have been produced in the current configuration?

F. COMMUNICATIONS

1. Does your staff have the experience and capability to provide weekly status teleconferences and provide monthly in-person production management reports?

2. Has your company performed engineering studies/analyses with regard to product life-cycle management?

F. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

1. Has your company performed software development, integration, testing, and/or fielding for supplies listed in the attached SOW or a similar systems?

2. Has your company provided legacy support to existing baselines and software modifications for supplies listed in the attached SOW or a similar systems?

3. Describe your company’s approach to software development? What methodologies does your company currently utilize for software development efforts?

4. Describe your company’s experience with integrating 3rd party proprietary “black box” software into an existing system. The 3rd party software could be from a commercial vendor, the Government, or another Contractor.

5. Describe your company’s ability to both prepare a software development plan (SDP) as well as your company’s experience executing to an SDP provided by the Government.

6.. Is your company’s IT system strengthened by Cybersecurity principles and cybersecurity lessons learned?

7. Provide the following high level programmatic actual metrics and/or data from the last 5 years for the historical software efforts cited:

after implementation of improved processes that showed improvement similar to the proposed savings.

G. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1. Is there any additional information or input you would like to provide as it relates to AN/SPQ-15 hardware production and/or CSEA efforts or the Government's associated acquisition strategy, as outlined under this RFI