MARKET SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE NEW BRADLEY STS Final.docx

08/20/2020

MARKET SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE SYSTEMS TECHNICAL SUPPORT (STS)/

SUSTAINMENT SYSTEMS TECHNICAL SUPPORT (SSTS)

Objective: This request is a market survey questionnaire intended to obtain information about industry capability to provide STS / SSTS on a completion and level of effort basis covering the time period of FY22-FY27, to be awarded on a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) basis.

Product Description: Product Manager (PdM) Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems Family of Vehicles (BFVS FOV) including, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and other Bradley platform vehicles, both in and out of production.

The Requirement: The Program Executive Office for Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS), Project Manager Mounted Armored Vehicles (PM MAV) requires System Technical Support (STS) and Sustainment System Technical Support (SSTS) for BFVS FOV.

Clarification of this Action. This request is a Market Survey. It is an inquiry intended to measure the level of industry interest in determining the appropriate acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. This Market Survey neither constitutes a Request for Proposal or Invitation to Bid, nor does it restrict the Government to an ultimate acquisition approach. Additionally, as a Market Survey, this inquiry does not bind the Government to solicit for or award a competitive contract. Participation in the survey is also wholly voluntary on the part of the contractor, as no reimbursements will be made to any contractor for ANY costs associated with their participation in the survey. Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. Lastly, participation in this Market Survey, while important to Army acquisition planners, is neither mandatory nor is it requisite to future participation by the contractor in this or a similar contract RFP. You may address any part or portion of this Market Survey. However, the Government reserves the right to solicit for all or parts of these requirements in the best interest of the Government.

Disclaimer

The United States Government (USG) is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Nor is the Government obligated for like data in possession of third parties or for data which is afterwards placed in the public domain by the contractor or by third parties through no fault of the USG. Should the USG need to reproduce the protected data for distribution purposes between Government offices, all such data will be reproduced with restrictive legends in place.

Reference herein to any specific commercial company, product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Department of the Army (DA).

The USG acknowledges its obligations under the Federal Acquisition Regulation 3.104-4 to protect confidential information provided to the Government (18 U.S.C. §1905). Pursuant to this statute, the USG is willing to accept any trade secrets or proprietary restrictions placed upon qualifying data forwarded in response to this survey and to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure, subject to the following:

· Qualifying data must be clearly marked PROPRIETARY and be accompanied by an explanatory text so that the Government is clearly notified as to exactly what data so qualifies.

· Mark only data that is truly confidential.

· Do not mark data that is already in the public domain or is already in possession of the USG or third parties on an unclassified basis.

· Proprietary data transmitted electronically must have the PROPRIETARY legend on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail as well as at the beginning of the file. Proprietary information contained within the correspondence shall use the legends: “PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS” and “PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS.”

Assumptions. The United States Government (USG) may not furnish a complete Technical Data Package (TDP) for the vehicles identified. The contractor is expected to tell USG what information is needed to accomplish each task.

Scenario. The requirement for this proposed contract is to provide logistics, engineering, and software integration for the Bradley FOV’s. Below each subpart, please provide a response based on your experience in the area, knowledge of subject matter, and manpower capabilities.

Contractors who deem themselves qualified; please take the time to respond to the questionnaire below. We are interested to see who is capable and experienced in meeting any or all areas of interest.

Instructions for Responding to this Market Survey

Responses to this request for information should be sent via e-mail to Matthew Kainz, Contract Specialist at matthew.j.kainz.civ@mail.mil. You are requested to put: “BFOV & MRLS Service Support Effort” in the subject line of the e-mail. Any request for clarifications shall also be addressed to Matthew Kainz, Contract Specialist at matthew.j.kainz.civ@mail.mil.

Responses to the Market Survey are due on 09/18/2020. Please note that all questions and answers will be posted anonymously to this website. Questions that are received by this office five days prior to the deadline will be considered late and may not be answered.

Responses are due NO LATER than close of business on date 09/18/2020.

Response Format.

Submittal will be in text format only. Respondents to this market survey are specifically instructed to appropriately mark any document that contains proprietary data, trade secrets, or other business sensitive information.

If desired, responses may address the question number so as not to repeat the question in each response. Please spell out acronyms in their first instance. Respondents to this questionnaire may be contacted directly in the future for additional comment and information as the requirements develop.

Administrative Information.

1. Company Name

2. Mailing Address and Website

3. Location of facilities

4. CAGE Code (if applicable)

5. North America Industry Classification System (NAICS) number

6. Business size and eligibility under USG socio-economic programs and preference

7. Does your company use a cost system that has been certified by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)?

Personnel Responding to Market Survey

a. Name: ________________________________________________________

b. Title: ________________________________________________________

c. Company, Position, and Responsibility: ________________________________________________________

d. Telephone/Fax Numbers: ________________________________________________________

e. E-Mail Address: ________________________________________________________

f. CAGE (commercial and government entity) Code (if any): _____________________________________________________

Logistics Support

The following subparts are required under logistics support:

· Depot Maintenance and Strategy Planning

· Electronic Technical Manuals, Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals, National Maintenance Work Requirement (NMWR), and Depot Maintenance Work Requirement (DMWR)

· Management, maintenance, operation, and security of USG Property in the Possession of the Contractor

· Product Support Analysis (PSA)/Logistics Product Data (LPD)Objectives

· New Equipment Training (NET)

· Fielding & Deprocessing using Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE), Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army), Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS), Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) or equivalent.

· Computer Resources, Test Measurement Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE)

· Modification Work Orders (MWOs)

· Field Service Representative Support

· Supportability Analysis (FMECA, FTA, MTA, LORA, RCMA)

· Configuration Control, Identification and Baseline Management

· Facilities and Infrastructure Management and Planning

· Obsolescence management

8. What is your company’s expertise in planning for and executing depot level material maintenance and repair requiring the overhaul, upgrading, or rebuilding of parts, assemblies, or subassemblies and the testing and reclamation of end item/equipment thereof? This includes aligning Maintenance Operations Metrics with Customer Outcomes.

9. Describe your company’s capability and experience in development of technical data, to include parts provisioning, for the operation, maintenance, testing/evaluation, and repair parts support of materiel systems. Include processes for participation in logistics demonstrations, technical manual validations/verifications.

10. Describe your organization’s experience, skill, and capability of developing (1) Logistics Product Data, (2) Logistics Product Data Summaries, using DoD adopted industry standard GEIA-STD- 0007 (Logistics Product Data) and military standards DI-SESS-81758, DI-SESS-81759. Identify computer-based tools/systems utilized to manage and generate these product data items.

11. Describe your experience in planning and developing New Equipment Training (NET) packages, and executing training in field and facility environments.

12. What is your organization’s capability and experience in materiel fielding and materiel transfer processes, which includes use of systems that maintains the accountability of government assets/property?

13. Describe your capabilities and experience with Identifying, plan, resource, and acquire packaging / preservation, handling, storage and transportation (PHST) requirements to maximize availability and usability of the materiel to include support items whenever they are needed for training or mission.

14. Describe your organizations capability to Identify, plan, resource and implement management actions to acquire and support the equipment (mobile or fixed) required to sustain the operation and maintenance of the system to ensure that the system is available to the Warfighter when it is needed at the lowest Total Ownership Cost (TOC).

15. Describe you experience in determining the type of MWO, the developing, reporting and fielding MWOs.

Engineering Support The following subparts are required under Engineering Support:

· Environmental Engineering Support

· Mechanical and Electrical Obsolescence

· Quality Engineering (Qualification and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) Testing, Vehicle and Subcomponent Testing, and First Article Test)

· Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM)

· Software & Cyber Engineering

· Systems Engineering

· System Safety

· System Test Integration

· System Validation and MANPRINT Integration

· Design and integration of subsystems into a Major Vehicle System

· Failure Analysis

· Survivability Design

· Structures Design

· Cybersecurity

· Weld Design

Engineering Support Questions:

16. Please describe any similar services in the last three years that your company performed for any USG agency for the engineering support items above, to include but not limited to the following: examples of service(s) performed, timeframe, and location of performance.

17. Please describe how your company would manage the daily operations for each of the engineering support services (Army Team Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), logistics engineering support, systems engineering support, and System Integration Laboratory (SIL).

18. Please describe, in your company’s own method and format, your company’s Systems Engineering Plan.

19. Describe your company’s software engineering process and its management. Please also address your software engineering experience, your technology management to handle new technologies/software, and lifecycle software management. Your process should clearly describe all software aspects: (1) resource management,

(2) requirement, (3) development, (4) reviews, (5) test and integration, (6) risk, (7) configuration management, (8) schedule, (9) metrics, (10) quality, (11) reliable cost/estimate, (12) tools/techniques, and (13) documentation.

20. Describe your experience with software development, Post Production Software Support (PPSS), Hardware/Software Obsolescence, security, calibration, interfacing and operations with Test Measurement Diagnostic Equipment, BIT/BITE, Software Loader Verifier (SLV), Maintenance Support Device (MSD), Embedded Diagnostics/Prognostics, Test Program Sets and Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) and the reduction of TMDE

Configuration Management Questions:

21. Please describe your Configuration Management System.

22. Please describe your experience in maintaining configuration control of a fleet of vehicles.

23. Please describe your experience in providing overarching configuration coordination over production and fielded vehicles.

24. Please describe the database your company would use to track configuration management of the current fleet of BFVs.

Product Assurance and Test (PAT) Questions:

25. Please describe the quality system your company has in place.

26. Please elaborate on how your company assures the proper resources to include competent personnel, equipment, workplaces and supplies.

27. Please explain how your company ensures it understands the customer’s requirements to include customer, statutory, regulatory and generally implied requirements for your products.

28. Please elaborate on the process controls used by your company.

29. Do you have knowledge of the Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process? If applicable, please describe your problem resolution tracking program.

30. Give examples of continuous improvement in accordance with a quality system.

31. Please describe how you would manage your supplier quality control.

32. Please define briefly, how your company intends to comply with DFARS 246, Counterfeit Electronic Detection and Avoidance System.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Questions:

33. What is your CMMI maturity level? When was the CMMI appraisal conducted for the organization?

34. Describe any process improvement strategies that you currently have in place that apply to the following process areas:

a. Requirements Management

b. Project Monitoring and Control

c. Project Planning

d. Configuration Management

e. Measurement and Analysis (Metrics)

f. Process and Product Quality Assurance

g. Organizational Process Definition and Management

h. Causal Analysis and Resolution

i. Software Engineering and Development

j. Risk Management

Cost and Software Data Reporting (CSDR) Questions:

35. Please describe your experience preparing/submitting Cost and Software Data Reporting (CSDR) in accordance with DoD 5000.4M1 (CSDR Manual).

Information Security:

36. Please describe your experience with the protection of Classified and Controlled Unclassified Information and Supply Chain Risk Management down through your tiered suppliers.

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