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1. The Government recognizes the need for potential vendors to qualify their sonobuoy designs prior to entering production in FY23. Therefore, it is the Government’s intention to start procuring Performance Validation and Verification (PV&V) units via Other Transactional Authority in FY21.

2. It is anticipated that each Production Sonobuoy Specification per variant will be consistent across the MADOC.

3. The Government intends to release a Statement of Need (SoN) for each of the AN/SSQ-36B, AN/SSQ-53G, AN/SSQ-62F, AN/SSQ-101B, and AN/SSQ-125A sonobuoys.

4. The Government anticipates including opportunities for the vendors to bid for buoy variants throughout the five-year ordering period.

5. The Government intends to request not to exceed firm fixed pricing for qualified buoy variants for all years.

6. The Government anticipates the release of the DRAFT RFP in the next 30 days with a 30-day response time. It is anticipated that the DRAFT RFP will include Sections A through M.

The Government requests the following information from the vendor(s):

1. What is the turnaround time to provide firm-fixed-pricing for a qualified buoy variant? Include any assumptions on the timing that the Government provides pricing points to the vendor.

2. Please provide any production quantity minimums and/or maximums that will drive efficiencies and/or a bid/no bid.