Sources_Sought_-_TC3_Mannequin.pdf

Version – February 2017

SOURCES SOUGHT – Tactical Casualty Combat Care (TC3) Mannequin

INTRODUCTION

THIS IS A Sources Sought Notice ONLY. The 918th Contracting Battalion at Fort Carson Colorado intends to award a contract for TraumaFX® AirwayPlus Lifecast - Upper/Lower Trauma Trainer Medical Simulators Pulses/Breathing/Fluid) on an SOLE SOURCE basis, but is seeking vendors that may be able to perform this requirement in order to support a competitive procurement. Accordingly, the U.S. Government highly encourages all interested businesses (large and small) to respond to this sources sought synopsis. In addition, small businesses, in all socioeconomic categories (including, 8(a) Business Development Program, Small Disadvantage Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Women- Owned Small Business concerns), must describe their identifying capabilities in meeting the requirements at a fair market price, i.e., information which may help support a set-aside., is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify potential sources having an interest and industry technologies available to support/provide the Fort Carson DPTMS Training Support Center with a medical training simulator.

The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement, if a requirement materializes. Based on the responses to this sources sought notice/market research, this requirement may be set-aside for small businesses (in full or in part) or procured through full and open competition. Multiple awards may be made. All small business set-aside categories will be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding submissions.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS

NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) TO BE SUBMITTED. 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 TO

THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The Fort Carson Training Support Center is attempting to purchase AirwayPlus Life Cast Upper, HEMO Lower Single Leg Amputation Manikins, along with the Basic Training Course and Consumables Starter Kit to support medical training on Fort Carson. Kforce Government Solutions INC. has been awarded the Army’s Tactical

Causality Combat Care (TC3) Training contract. Fort Carson is scheduled to be fielded one kit in the second quarter of FY ’19. However, one kit is insufficient to train our installation’s medical population. Fort Carson has various units that has been tagged for a variety of missions throughout the world which requires their medic population to be fully qualified. Fort Carson is a unique installation in its makeup of medics that includes flight medics, field medics, combat medics, hospital medics all of which have the some of the same core qualifications but they have their own specialty areas that the TC3 kits require attention.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

The Government requires the simulators to have the following minimum characteristics:

Training Simulator #2 Torso for APL Pulses & Breathing (Torso) Must train for and contain the following minimum specifications and characteristics

1. Ruggedized, weatherproofed, tether-less, remote-control with a minimum (line of sight) range if 200yds

2. Animatronic movement of injured limbs

3. Weatherproofed and ruggedized

4. Pulse

5. Breathing

6. Real-time feedback providing instructors with instant data on the effectiveness of student interventions such as tourniquet application, wound hemostasis, airway intervention, needle decompression, and chest tube placement.

7. Provides visual display which shows key vitals

8. Body parts are interchangeable

9. Active breathing with chest rise and fall

10. Airway management

11. Moveable jaw

12. Intubation (Sensors for correct/incorrect placement - realistic internally - can use

Bronchoscope)

13. Oropharyngeal Airway (OPA)

14. Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA)

15. Selectable airway obstruction (ability to remotely block nasal passage and throat)

16. Cricothyroidotomy

17. Needle decompression (troacentesis - with air sounds)

18. Tension pneumothorax

19. IV insertion (with flash cue)

20. Intraosseous (I/O) infusion (Sternal and Humeral with drain)

21. Adjustable eyes (pupils constricted or dilated)

22. Two-way audio communication

23. Operates with COTS batteries available from DIY stores to last 4-12 hrs (Makita

Lithium)

24. Multiple sensors relay results to trainer in real-time

25. Simulated breathing and coordinated breath sounds in 4 quadrants

26. Palpable radial and carotid pulse points (adapt to patient status, improved or deteriorated)

27. Sensors in teeth indicate whether touched during intubation

28. Simulates tension pneumothorax in either side with appropriate physiologic cues

29. Flexible jaw with internal tracheal landmarks for oro-tracheal intubation

30. Bilateral chest tube insertion sites with replaceable, multiple use skin plugs

31. Oral airway cavity (with teeth and tongue) for oropharyngeal intubation

32. Trainer-selectable airway obstruction at the nose or throat to cue for surgical

Cricothyroidotomy

33. Simulated Cricothyroidotomy with larynx, and single and multiple use replaceable skin plugs

34. Realistic manubrium allows intraosseous (I/O) training with fluid infusion

35. Interactive needle decompression training sites (full size 3.25” 14 gauge needle) with replaceable multi-use skin plugs and pleural membranes

36. 2-way Communication (TWC) audio system allows trainer to speak through the simulator

37. Female Breast Bib and Transdermal ECG wave generator

38. Can be used with human actors

39. Easy to clean and maintain after use

Training Simulator #1 Hemostatic Wound Trainer (lower body) Must train for and contain the following minimum specifications and characteristics

1. Ruggedized, weatherproofed, tether-less, remote-control with a minimum (line of sight) range if 200yds

2. Animatronic movement of injured limbs

3. Weatherproofed and ruggedized

4. Sensor technology which provides real-time feedback that takes the guesswork out of trauma simulation

5. Full left leg with a bleeding wound at the inguinal crease for hemostatic wound training, venous bleeding at the lower leg, and a traumatic amputation of the right leg requiring a tourniquet. Medics and First Responders also learn how to treat a boot top simple fracture of the tibia or fibula that has open, avulsed, and irregular wounds caused by an explosion

6. Display showing real-time key vitals providing instructors with instant data on the effectiveness of student interventions such as tourniquet application, wound hemostasis, airway intervention, needle decompression, and chest tube placement.

7. Pair with upper torso trainer

8. Animatronic leg movement

9. Packable wound (with sensor indication time remaining of pressure to reach

"clot" success)

10. Amputation (with exposed Tib/Fib with movable knee joint)

11. Active bleeding & occlusion response (full sensor rail along femoral artery allowing realistic application)

12. Tourniquet

13. Simulated wounds

14. Crepitus (to cue for crushed pelvic region)

15. Hemostatic wound at the inguinal crease that requires packing with gauze and the application of measurable pressure

16. Provides instantaneous feedback of applied pressure, time to occlude bleeding, and volume of blood loss for after action reporting (AAR)

17. Arterial bleeding from the amputation requiring correct tourniquet placement

18. Responds to direct femoral artery pressure for immediate bleeding control

19. Can be used with human actors

20. Operates with COTS batteries available from DIY stores to last 4-12 hrs (Makita

Lithium)

21. Crepitus to cue for crushed pelvis injury

22. Scrotal avulsion

23. Easy to clean and maintain after use

24. Right leg

The intent of this Sources Sought is to assess the state-of-the art of the technology available in medical emergency products that could be applied to meet this requirement.

The Government envisions a solution for medical training that meets the following operational and program requirements: Please see characteristics in ‘required capabilities.’

Non-Developmental Item. The medical training simulator should be a non-developmental item to the maximum extent possible.

Maintenance, Inspection and Repair. The Government desires a system with minimal maintenance and inspection requirements at the organizational level. The system should also be easily repairable for deployed units.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Any resulting contract is anticipated to have a security classification level of Confidential as applicable. Any resulting contract shall be compliant with the specialty metals restriction of the Berry Amendment (10 U.S.C. 2533a and 2533b) in accordance with DFARS clauses 252.225-7008 and 252.225-7009.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 423450 with a Small Business Size Standard of 200 employees. The Product Service Code (PSC) is 6515.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package (no more than ten 8.5 X 11 inch pages, font no smaller than 10 point) demonstrating ability to provide the products/systems listed in this Technical Description. Documentation should be in bullet format. No phone or email solicitations with regards to the status of the RFP will be accepted prior to its release.

Your response to this Sources Sought, including any capabilities statement, shall be electronically submitted to the Contract Specialist, Bev. Powell, in either Microsoft Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), via email bevelrey.e.powell.civ@mail.mil and the Contracting Officer, CPT Frank J. Antosz at frank.j.antosz.mil@mail.mil no later than 12:00 p.m. (MST) on 12 June 2018 and reference this synopsis number in subject line of e-mail and on all enclosed documents. Information and materials submitted in response to this request WILL NOT be returned. DO NOT SUBMIT CLASSIFIED

MATERIAL.

If your organization has the potential capacity to provide the required products/systems, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, primary points of contact (POCs) and their email address, FAX, Web site address, telephone number, and type of ownership for the organization; and 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the requirements of this notice, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

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