NSCV Sources Sought Questionnaire.docx

Technical Information Questionnaire (TIQ) for Non Standard Commercial Vehicle (NSCV)

06 April 2020

1 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

The purpose of this questionnaire is to determine the suitability and maturity of your equipment to satisfy the vehicle modification requirements stated below for the Non Standard Commercial Vehicle (NSCV). USSOCOM is also interested in which requirements are major cost and schedule drivers. Vendors are encouraged to use additional pages as necessary to fully respond to the questions below.

(a) Base Vehicle Modifications Required May Include (But Not Limited To):

- Various levels of armor protection

- Operable Windows

- Increased post-modification payload capacity of 2,200 lbs (includes operators)

- Emergency Egress Capability

- Upgraded suspension

- Upgraded brake system

- IR light functionality

- Blackout functionality

- Increased engine performance

- Similar size vehicle tow and push requirement

- Armor protection package must pass vehicle System Level Testing

- Integration of C4ISR/Electronic Countermeasure (EMC) package

- Weapons Mounts (truck variant only)

- Tactical Keyless Ignition System

- Vehicle must be designed to handle all terrains:

(mission profile= 23% primary; 35% secondary; 36% trails, 6% cross country)

- Must meet transportability requirements (Air, Rail, CH47, etc)

*** ALL MODIFICATIONS MUST NOT DETRACT FROM COMMERCIAL APPEARANCE ***

2 TECHNICAL INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRE (TIQ)

Personnel Responding to Questionnaire:

(a) Name

(b) Job Title

(c) Size and type of business - Large / small businesses; HUBZone; service-disabled, veteran-owned; 8(a); veteran-owned; woman-owned; or small disadvantaged businesses

(d) DUNS number and Cage Code

(e) Company Name

(f) Telephone

(g) E-mail address

(h) Mailing Address

(i) Company Website

3 EQUIPMENT AND FACILITY AVAILABILITY

(a) Does your company currently have the required equipment, facility, and personnel to produce vehicles per the modification requirements stated above in section 1(a)?

(b) If yes, please provide capacity detail (i.e. production style, facility location and size, etc.) and if you are currently utilizing these to produce a vehicle. Also is there capacity to produce additional vehicles per the modification requirements stated above in section 1(a)?

4 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION & TESTING INFORMATION

Please answer or rate the following questions using the below scale:

(5 - Expert, 4 - Familiar, 3 - Somewhat familiar, 2 - Novice, 1 - No experience)

Also, provide comments to substantiate your response (ie: years of experience, quantity of vehicles, number of Government contracts, or other descriptors as applicable).

(a) Does your company have expertise with armoring commercial OEM vehicles to protect occupants from small arms, blast and fragmentation?

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(b) Does your company have expertise in manufacturing US military ground vehicles?

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(c) Does your company have expertise in manufacturing US military rotorcraft internally air transportable (IAT) vehicles?

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(d) Does your company have expertise in welding in accordance with (IAW) TACOM Ground Combat Vehicle Armor Welding Code?

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(e) Does your company have expertise with “MIL-“ details and standards?

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(f) What armor standards has your company used on similar previous vehicle builds? (CENB5, CENB6, NATO STANAG, VPAM, etc.)

(g) Does your company have expertise with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) regulations?

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(h) Does your company have expertise with foreign motor vehicle regulations such as, but not limited to, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and UN Economic Commision for Europe (UNECE)?

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(i) Does your company have expertise with Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) standards?

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(j) Does your company have expertise with Development Testing Center (DTC) Test Operating Procedures?

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(k) Does your company have any vehicle test data relating to automotive performance, ballistic performance, durability, etc.? Yes or No?

(l) If you answered yes to the previous question; Please provide the level of testing (component, subsystem, vehcle, etc.) available.

(m) If your company has done previous testing; please provide the testing organization performing the testing (government, certified third party, non certified third party, internal, etc.), model of vehicles tested, and the date of any tests performed on any similar vehicles.

(n) Does your company have the capability to perform relevant engineering analysis and design verification (finite element analysis (FEA), computer aided design (CAD), component, system, or vehicle level physical testing? Please provide a brief description of capabilities.

(o) Please list any organizations that your company has experience with which are used to test and certify both opaque and transparent armor material.

(p) Does your company have expertise with importing and properly documenting vehicles from other countries?

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5 QUALITY INFORMATION

(a) Which weld standards are followed for armor and non-armor materials?

(b) Identify the standards that your welders are certified to and the process utilized to obtain certification? How many certified welders are available to support the manufacture of vehicles?

(c) What Quality Management System or Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) is in place? Explain how the process and products are controlled?

(d) Has your facility achieved any level of third party certifications (i.e. ISO9001:2000 or Fed Standard 368)?

(e) How does your company handle configuration management?

(f) How does your company handle armor heat lot tracability?

6 VEHICLE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION

(a) Do you have or have you produced in the past an up armored commercial OEM vehicle that meets the requirements stated in 1(a)? Please check one choice below to indicate the level of compliance of this vehicle to the requirement in 1(a).

___No existing vehicle ___R&D ___Production (<33% of modification requirements stated above in section 1(a)).

___Production (<66% of modification requirements stated above in section 1(a)).

___Production (>66% of modification requirements stated above in section 1(a)). ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(b) Which commercial vehicles does your company have experience with modifying (Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, etc.)?

7 WEAPONS SYSTEM INFORMATION

(a) Does your company have experience integrating weapons mounts on commercial vehicles?

8 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

Please answer or rate the following questions using the below scale:

(5 - Expert, 4 - Familiar, 3 - Somewhat familiar, 2 - Novice, 1 - No experience) Also, provide comments to substantiate your response (ie: years of experience, quantity of vehicles, number of Government contracts, or other descriptors as applicable).

(a) Does your company have expertise with IR lighting?

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(b) Does your company have experience with vehicles utilizing both 12 and 24 volt electrical systems?

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(c) Does your company have experience with producing vehicles with the capability of running in black out mode?

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9 C4ISR INFORMATION

Please answer or rate the following questions using the below scale:

(5 - Expert, 4 - Familiar, 3 - Somewhat familiar, 2 - Novice, 1 - No experience) Also, provide comments to substantiate your response (ie: years of experience, quantity of vehicles, number of Government contracts, or other descriptors as applicable).

(a) Does your company have expertise with integrating several multiband Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers (Multiband Radios, Electronic Counter Measure Systems, Blue Force Tracking systems, GPS etc.) on a single vehicle?

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(b) Does your company have facilities and qualified personnel to produce signal and power cables for military C4ISR equipment?

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(c) Does your company have expertise with bonding and grounding techniques to mitigate noise from other C4ISR subsystems as well as to mitigate noise from vehicle subsystems (air conditioner, compressors, engine, lights, etc.) for optimal C4ISR performance?

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(d) Does your company have any NDAs in place with C4ISR vendors. If not, do you foresee any issues with putting NDAs in place with these vendors if necessary for sharing technical data packages for vehicle integration purposes?

(e) Does your company have personnel that are trained to operate military C4ISR systems (Multiband Radios, Amplifiers, Electronic Counter Measure Systems, Blue Force Tracking systems, etc) and have the ability to perform subsystem and system level testing on fully integrated vehicles?

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(f) Does your company have the ability to fabricate custom metal work for mounting C4ISR equipment and ancillaries?

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(g) Does your company have expertise with Human Factors Engineering to provide C4ISR integration that provides optimal ingress/egress solutions while considering: Electromagentic Interference/Electromagentic Compatibility, RadHaz (Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance/Personnel/Fuel)?

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(h) Does your company have an account for storing Controlled Cryptographic Items? Type-1 Communications Security material? Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module devices?

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(i) Describe your company’s capability to design the components to integrate C4ISR equipment into a vehicle?

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(j) Describe your company’s ability to integrate C4ISR into a vehicle during production builds?

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