DCWT_RFI.docx

Appendix B: Damage Control Duties, Tasks, And Subtask Training Requirements

INTRODUCTION: The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Orlando, FL, is seeking information for potential sources to design, fabricate, install, and test a number of Damage Control Wet Trainer (DCWT) devices. These devices will be used to train and evaluate damage control team performance in the identification, reporting, and repair of flooding casualties resulting from piping ruptures and ship collisions. The devices will be installed at six locations, both CONUS and OCONUS.

BACKGROUND:

The US Navy’s Surface Warfare Schools Command (SWSC) operates and maintains six DCWT devices. The location of these devices and their respective ages are as follows:

· Mayport, FL – 1990, 35 years old

· Great Lakes, IL – 1991, 34 years old

· San Diego, CA – 1995, 30 years old

· Yokosuka, Japan – 2003, 22 years old

· Norfolk, VA – 2009, 16 years old

· Pearl Harbor, HI – 2009, 16 years old Based on the ages of these devices and their material conditions, SWSC intends to standardize, modernize, and upgrade these devices, including complete replacement, if necessary.

SCOPE: This RFI seek to solicit a notional design concept, cost, and schedule from industry experts for the design, construction, and installation of six replacement DCWT devices.

1. Provide a design concept for a training device with the features and capabilities presented in Appendix A, which would allow for hands-on demonstration, practice, and evaluation in a realistic, representative shipboard environment, for the duties and tasks identified in Appendix B.

a. The design concept should describe the physical and functional characteristics of the device, as well as describing the notional size, structure, and layout.

b. The design concept should accommodate a throughput of up to 3500 students per year.

c. The design concept should include an interface that allows for local and remote control functions.

d. The design concept should include an Instructor Operator Station (IOS) that will allow instructors to initiate and control scenarios, monitor student performance, and communicate with on-scene instructional staff and students if necessary.

e. The design concept should incorporate E-Stops, ventilation control, water treatment, and water temperature monitoring and control systems.

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: DCWT devices will be installed at six fleet concentration areas;

Great Lakes, IL; Norfolk, VA; Mayport, FL; San Diego, CA; Pearl Harbor, HI; and Yokosuka, Japan.

NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS): The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 541330 (Engineering Services), Exception 1: Military and Aerospace Equipment and Military Weapons, and associated small business size standard of $47.0M. The applicable Product Service Code (PSC) is 6910 (Training Aids).

REQUESTED RESPONSE: Responses by interested parties shall be written and should provide documentation on their firm’s Design Concept, Cost, Schedule, and Small Business Participation that demonstrates the ability to fulfill the detailed trainer requirements identified in Appendix A and Appendix B to this Request for Information.

CAPABILITIES: Interested parties should provide a brief company introduction and details on the following.

CONCEPT: Please provide a notional design concept as described in the SCOPE section above. Please note, in particular, the optional capability listed in Appendix A to simulate ship’s list and trim in reaction to the accumulation of flooding. Please indicate whether or not your design concept incorporates this feature.

COST: Please provide a rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate to meet the requirements for delivery of the respective trainers. Please include ROM estimate for procurement of a single unit, and describe or quantify any economy of scale that might be realized in procuring six such devices. If your design concept includes the optional “list and trip” feature, please indicate its impact to cost.

SCHEDULE: Please provide a high-level, notional schedule or notional timeline with major milestones to design, build, and install one representative device, and corresponding schedule or timeline to design, build, and install all six devices.

SUBMISSION DETAILS: Interested businesses shall submit responses by email to Ms. Lisa Castelli at lisa.m.castelli2.civ@us.navy.mil and copy Mark Johnson at mark.e.johnson106.civ@us.navy.mil. Please submit all written questions by email to Ms. Castelli and Mark Johnson.

One electronically submitted response shall be received no later than 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 14 April 2025 and reference: DAMAGE CONTROL WET TRAINER (DCWT) – Request for Information, Reference No. N6134025R0044.

Submissions shall be no more than eight (5) 8.5 x 11inch pages, font no smaller than 10 point, and single-spaced (not including drawings, photos and tables). Documentation should be organized into the following sections: CONCEPT, COST, SCHEDULE. All responses shall include Company Name, Company Address, CAGE Code, Unique Entity ID, Points-of-Contact (POC) including name(s), phone number, and email address. Please identify if your company is considered “Small Business” under the size standard associated with the NAICS code listed within this announcement. Also, please identify your company’s socio-economic status [i.e., WOSB, EDWOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone, or 8(a)], if applicable. Finally, please address if your company is interested in participating as a prime or subcontractor. If interested in the prime contractor role and plan on subcontracting to other companies in order to deliver technical capability, please provide details on exactly which tasks will be assigned to those subcontractors; in addition, provide the names of those anticipated subcontractors, and list the anticipated percentage of small business subcontracting.

LIMITATIONS ON SUBCONTRACTING: If you are a small business interested in being the prime contractor for this effort, please be advised that the FAR 52.219-14, “Limitations on Subcontracting,” Class Deviation 2021-O0008, Revision 1, is now in effect which includes the definition of “Similarly Situated Entity” and provides a methodology for the 50% calculation for compliance with the clause. Small business primes may count “first-tier subcontracted” work performed by Similarly Situated Entities as if it were performed by the prime itself. Please read the full text of Class Deviation 2021-O0008, Revision 1 - Limitations on Subcontracting for Small Business, dated 15 February 2023, at [https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000277-23-DPC.pdf].

To assist in our market research and determination for this effort, if you are a small business interested in priming this effort and plan to utilize “Similarly Situated Entities” to meet the Limitations on Subcontracting, please identify the name, Unique Entity ID, and CAGE Code of the specific company(s) you intend to partner/subcontract with to meet the requirements as well as their small business size status under the NAICS Code that you as the prime would assign for their workshare. Information regarding any planned “Similarly Situated Entity” should be included in answering any questions outlined in the SSN in order to assist the Government’s capability determination.

NAWCTSD will use the responses to this Request for Information to make an informed decision concerning the strategy it will pursue to meet its objectives and, if NAWCTSD elects to proceed with a procurement, to structure the solicitation to maximize commercial sector interest.

REQUEST FOR IMFORMATION: NOTIONAL PLAN

TO DESIGN AND BUILD DAMAGE CONTROL WET TRAINER (DCWT) DEVICES

DISCLAIMER: THIS REQUEST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

Required Features/Capabilities

Logistics Capabilities and Facility Specs

Indoor facility

DC locker present and functional

Realistic compartment set up (galley, pump room, mess deck, infirmary, engineering spaces)

Dark compartment capability

Deep water capability

Egress high speed water through all students – from compartment above

Monitoring cameras with wipers and adjustable from IOS

Trainer observation room for students and instructors

Dehumidification system in place

Water is heated when required

Water is cooled when required

Multiple spaces for casualty response

Electrical panel fully enclosed

Motion of entire training space to simulate realistic movement of a ship

Bridge/damage control center

Command and control center

Local control room

Drain in 60 seconds

Emergency exhaust in 60 seconds

Very intense water pressure

High water float to kill the pumps if the water rises too high

Instructor Control

Ability to observe, record, and replay trainings with CCTV system

Instructor Operator Station (IOS) - scenario control, status monitoring, events and alarms, trend graph, Built In Test, work hour based maintenance warning, planning, historical evaluation, training timing, diagnostics, water level control per compartment, sensors, windshield wipers on window looking into the performance space

Capability to throw faults by pushbutton

Sounds of danger incorporated

1MC available

Pushbutton valves

Artificial smoke

Light effects

Student Experience and Strategy

Multiple levels of training in same facility (interchangeable components for different live training scenarios)

Alarm that a student can actuate as part of scenario

Sound powered phone to be used as part of the scenario

Working valves for student water shut off

Skills Taught

Pipe casualties

Hull casualties

Other casualties

Structural casualties requiring different types of shoring

Capping used

Plugging used

Dewatering included - Eductor

Dewatering included - Perijet

Dewatering included - P-100

Water distribution and discharge

Unclosed damaged hatch sealing (buckled)

Casualty power cable laying

Smoke exhaust technique

Flange leak

Optional Feature/Capability

Motion of entire training space to simulate ship’s list and trim reaction to flooding accumulation.

Appendix A: Desired Features and Capabilities

Duty: Prepare for Shipboard Damage and Emergencies

Practice all peacetime emergencies as well as battle damage exercises corresponding to weapon threats in the expected areas of ship or submarine deployment.

Assist in developing a scenario for a major conflagration.

Conduct a brief and debrief for a major conflagration drill IAW SOP.

Perform advanced battle organization and administrative training conducted both ashore and on board through formal courses, drills and exercises.

Demonstrate proper procedures for bracing for shock.

Inventory and inspect a pipe patching kit.

Inventory and inspect a banding kit.

Demonstrate proper procedures for addressing abnormal conditions associated with a pipe patching kit.

Inventory and inspect a plugging kit.

Inventory and inspect a shoring tool kit.

Identify equipment in emergency communications kit.

Demonstrate proper procedures for addressing improper maintenance of DC equipment.

Demonstrate proper use of survivability devices.

Duty: Inspect ship for damage or casualty.

Inspect for fire, flooding, and missile hazards.

Open and close a sounding tube.

Locate all tanks and voids within DC Repair Station (DCRS) areas/adjacent areas, and take and record three soundings.

Sound and record all required tanks and voids.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to abnormal soundings.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to a pressurized sounding tube.

Duty: Communicate current ship condition.

Set and maintain material condition YOKE.

Set and maintain material condition ZEBRA.

Identify and report material conditions of readiness discrepancies.

Demonstrate proper procedures for observing violation of material conditions.

Demonstrate proper procedures for using standard commands.

Transmit messages using standard phraseology.

Receive and record messages using standard DC symbology.

Deliver an oral and a written message.

Transmit messages through a sound-powered telephone earpiece.

Receive messages through a sound-powered telephone mouthpiece.

Report results of inspections and soundings to DCC/CCS/EOOW/OOD.

Demonstrate proper procedures for reporting emergencies.

Make required reports to the controlling station using standard phraseology and symbology for a flood.

Make required reports to the controlling station using standard phraseology and symbology for structural damage.

Make required reports to the controlling station using standard phraseology and symbology for the failure of supporting watches to make necessary reports.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to loss/malfunctioning of communication.

Reestablish communications upon evacuation of the DCRS.

Reestablish communications using the emergency communication kit.

Duty: Respond to shipboard damage.

Demonstrate plugging procedures to control a crack and/or a hole above and below the waterline.

Apply a bulkhead plug.

Dog and undog individually dogged watertight doors.

Dog and undog quick-acting watertight doors.

Dog and undog a watertight hatch.

Dog and undog a raised scuttle/flush deck scuttle.

Open and close deck drain valves.

Open and close battle ports.

Locate piping system/isolation valves in assigned areas.

Locate and operate system valves equipped with remote operators.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to shipboard damage and flooding.

Employ proper techniques and procedures for combating floods and other damage.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to flooding and explosive damage.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to the existence of fire, flooding, hazard material and missile hazards.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to a major conflagration.

Perform battle and emergency decision making.

Determine the method and direct personnel to repair structural damage.

Perform operation, management, reconfiguration and administration of the battle organization.

Perform pipe repair using a soft patch.

Perform pipe repair using jubilee patch.

Perform pipe repair using an Emergency Water Activated Repair Patch (EWARP).

Perform pipe repair using a banding kit.

Perform pipe repair using a hose jumper.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to ruptured fuel piping.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to ruptured toxic liquid lines.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to a progressive crack/split seam.

Determine the method and direct piping isolation and patching.

Construct I-type shoring.

Construct I-type shoring using steel shores.

Construct wood K-type shoring utilizing a carpenter square.

Construct wood K-type shoring utilizing a shoring batten.

Construct K-type shoring using steel shores.

Construct no deck anchorage type shoring.

Perform duties as shoring watch.

Demonstrate proper procedures for addressing abnormal conditions associated with shoring.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to shoring collapse.

Demonstrate proper procedures for addressing an out of commission/inoperative fitting.

Rig a submersible pump with a suction hose.

Rig, operate, secure, and stow an Electric Submersible Pump (ESP).

Rig, operate, and secure, and stow P-100.

Rig and operate P-100 for deep suction.

Rig, operate, secure, and stow a portable eductor.

Align/secure an installed eductor.

Use submersible pumps in tandem.

Dewater using a P-100 pump with an eductor.

Dewater contaminated water/fuel/hot water.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to abnormal conditions associated with a P-100.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to abnormal conditions associated with an Electric Submersible Pump (ESP).

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to abnormal conditions associated with portable eductors.

Determine the method and direct personnel in dewatering.

Egress compartment.

Duty: Respond to multi-space damage or flooding.

Demonstrate proper procedures for flooding containment and control.

Perform compartment isolation.

Set and maintain flooding boundaries.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to loss of flooding boundaries.

Demonstrate proper procedures for responding to failed isolation valves.

Duty: Restore ship after shipboard damage.