BETA SAM RFI June 2 SBdoc.doc

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) GSA betaSAM RFI Apache 0004 This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this RFI will be treated as business confidential information. Nonetheless, submitters should properly mark their responses if the information is confidential. Responses to the RFI will not be returned. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expense associated with responding to this RFI.

This notification is to survey all Small Business (SB companies under the beta SAM:

NAICS Code: 33318 Other Commercial and Service Industry The general scope of this requirement is contained in the attached document.

This is only a rough draft of the requirement-no additional information is available.

Small Business (SB) vendors only, to identify available SB source(s) that have the capabilities and qualifications to perform the attached requirement.

This information will be utilized for preliminary planning purposes. The information received will be utilized within the General Services Administration and Department of Army, Apache Project Office, to facilitate the decision making process and will not be disclosed outside either agency. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing this information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. This notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quote (RFQ) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. Furthermore, the General Services Administration and the Department of Army are not seeking proposals or quotes and will not accept unsolicited proposals or quotes.

Respondents will not be notified of the results of the analysis. All data received in response to this Sources Sought synopsis that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be fully protected from release outside the Government. Since this is a Sources Sought announcement, no debrief, evaluation letters, or results will be issued to respondents.

Responses to this Sources Sought announcement will be used to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses, and if the Government plans to proceed with the acquisition utilizing betaSAM a solicitation announcement will be published.

No telephone calls will be accepted requesting a proposal package or solicitation. There is no proposal package or solicitation at this time. In order to protect the Government's integrity of any future procurement, if any, which may arise from this Sources Sought announcement, information regarding the technical point of contact will not be given and no appointments for presentations will be made.

Responses from all capable and qualified sources (Small Business Vendors Only) are encouraged to respond to this request.

Interested sources are invited, and encouraged, to review the attached draft SOW and respond to this Sources Sought announcement with all questions and comments. In addition, interested sources are invited to send a maximum ten-page document with the following information:

White papers should adhere to the following formatting and outline instructions.

· Cover Page (1page)

· Title

· Organization

· Responders technical and administrative points of contact (names, addresses, phone, fax number and email addresses)

· Topic area(s) addressed

· Please note that the response shall provide sufficient technical data to determine how you fully meet the requirements.

· Submit in Microsoft Word Times New Roman font size 10 Please note that responses are due no later than 4:00pm, Eastern on June 12, 2020. The required method of submission is via email. The point of contact for this action is Tiffany Johnson at Tiffany.S.Johnson@gsa.gov. No evaluation letters and/or results will be issued to the respondents. At this time no solicitation exists; therefore, please do not request a copy of the solicitation. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. It is the responsibility of any potential offeror to monitor this site for the release of any solicitation or synopsis.

Description/Overview: This is a request for information.

The scope of this Statement of Work is to provide the required personnel, materials, facilities, services, and support to complete four (4) phase 2 build AH-64E V4 L7 Maintenance Trainers with an option for three (3) more full build devices, for a total of seven (7) devices for delivery. Additionally, the scope of this SOW is to provide the required personnel, materials, facilities, services, and support to test, deliver, and install at the US Army 128th Aviation Brigade facilities at Joint Base Langley Eustis (JBLE) at Fort Eustis, VA.

Please answer the following questions and provide a response of your companies experience in-reference to the following questions:

1- Provide the primary Product and Service Codes (PSCs) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code that your company utilizes for providing AH-64E V4 L7 Maintenance Trainers.

2- Provide a list of all labor categories and supplies that you believe are required to meet the Government's requirements.

3- Indicate how your firm would satisfy this requirement on a FFP basis.

4- Indicate if your firm has sufficient resource/manpower to manage the required tasks.

5- Provide at least 3 past experience summary comparable to this requirement in terms of complexity, technical scope, size, and dollar figures. Please indicate if your firm has experience on past projects above 50 million dollars (performed as a Prime or Subcontractor (if as a subcontractor, what was the total contract amount?)), and if not, what is your firm largest project to date?

6- List your experience designing and developing a full platform Apache Maintenance Trainers (list all that apply, isolated part task trainers etc).

7- Where are the training devices you listed above in use?

8- How does your company manage the building of full scale, complex training devices without source data?

9- What would be your estimated delivery time for each device knowing that you all four will be ordered at the time of award and you have to create a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM); conduct quarterly In-process Reviews, host a System Requirements Review (SRR); develop the preliminary design; host a Preliminary Design Review (PDR); host a Critical Design Review (CDR); perform Hardware Software Integration (HSI), conduct Systems Level Testing; conduct the Contractor Preliminary Inspection (CPI); undergo a Test Readiness Review (TRR); undergo Government Preliminary Inspection (GPI); pack and ship the devices; install the devices on site; undergo Contractor Final Inspection (CFI); Government Final Inspection (GFI); before the device is ready for training. The government is not interested in how you conduct the items above, we are looking for a top level milestone IMS.

10- What is your approach to coordinating with the Government and end users when modifying, building a training device of this magnitude with no data provided and all new NRE required?

11- If you have to spend time at 128Th Avn Bde gathering needed data to learn the inner workings of the existing AH-64E Maintenance Training Devices, how many days do you believe would be required? What actions would you take to reduce the disruption in training?

12- How does your core business align with the procurement, manufacture, and delivery of a full scale aircraft maintenance trainer? Why?

13- What items within these requirements would you likely subcontract to other companies and why?

14- Please explain upgrade capabilities on software and full systems.

15- Please provide information on sustainment support and warranties that are included within the package.

16- Based on the information provided in the SOW would you submit a proposal, please provide a brief explanation.

17- Please indicate what if any information herein this SOW would your company consider as proprietary.