Sources_sought_UTM_March_2025.pdf

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Acquisition Operations Branch, Denver Area Office issues this Sources

Sought notice to determine the availability and capability of small business sources for a delivery order for the purchase of factory manufactured Ultimate Training Munitions (UTM) training platforms, Personal

Protective Equipment (PPE) and training ammunitions for conducting security operations and mandated less than/non-lethal training. This notice is a tool to identify small businesses that have both the technical expertise and authorization to manufacture Ultimate Training Munitions which is proprietary.

The Ultimate Training Munitions trademark is filed in the Firearm Products category with the following description: Ammunition; training ammunition; non-lethal training ammunition; man marker ammunition rounds; silent blank ammunition rounds; blank ammunition rounds; magazines for ammunition; firearm conversion kits comprising bolt assemblies, carrier assemblies, barrel assemblies, barrel liners, and slide assemblies that fire non-lethal training ammunition for firing non-lethal training ammunition using live fire guns, hand guns, machine guns, shot guns and rifles. UTM products, including ammunition and conversions are made in a United Kingdom (UK) manufacturing facility. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) has limited the import, delivery, and sale of UTM Non-Lethal Training ammunition

(NLTA) to Military and Law Enforcement customers ONLY. Unfortunately, the consequence of this is that they are currently ONLY able to import the training products for customers and not any other customers or markets.

Information obtained through this notice may be used to determine the potential for issuing a future solicitation for this project as a total small business set-aside, and to provide input for the Government’s overall acquisition strategy.

This is NOT a Request for Proposals or an Invitation for Bids and does not constitute any commitment by the Government. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice. All interested sources must respond to future solicitation announcements separately from responses to the sources sought notice.

The NAICS code for this project is 332999 All other miscellaneous fabricated metal product manufacturing, with a small business size standard of $750 thousand.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

UTM training systems conversion kits, PPE and ammunition specified below.

Firearm Training Conversion Platforms:

• Rifle, MMR/BLANK Training Conversion Kit w/magazine.

• Rifle, Training Magazine

• Pistol, Glock 17 Gen4 MMR Training Conversion Kit

• Pistol, Glock 17 Gen4 Blank Barrel Conversion

• Pistol, Glock 19 Gen5 MMR Training Conversion Kit

• Pistol, Glock 19 Gen5 Blank Barrel Conversion

Personal Protective Equipment for UTM training use:

• Protective Gloves

• Protective helmet w/ full face shield

• Face Mask for High Cut Combat helmet

• Groin Protector

• Leg Protector

• Body protector

Training Ammunition types:

• UTM 5.56mm Rifle Training Ammunition, Man Marking Round (MMR)

• UTM 5.56mm Rifle Training Ammunition, Loud Battlefield Blank Round (LBBR)

• UTM 5.56mm Rifle Training Ammunition – Battlefield Blank Round (BBR)

• UTM 9mm Pistol Training Ammunition – Man Marking Round (MMR)

• UTM 9mm Pistol Training Ammunition – Battlefield Blank Round (BBR)

LOCATION OF THE WORK/DELIVERY OF ITEMS:

Bureau of Reclamation

Hwy 155 - Warehouse B - Door 6 Industrial Area

Grand Coulee, WA 99133

Bureau of Reclamation

Northern California Area Office

16349 Shasta Dam Boulevard

Shasta Lake, CA 96019

INFORMATION REQUESTED:

When responding to this notice, respondents are asked to provide the following information:

1. Firm’s name, address, point of contact, phone number, email address, Cage Code, DUNS number.

2. Business classification, to include size and any additional socioeconomic classification(s).

3. Verification/evidence that your company is authorized to import and or manufacture and distribute

UTM products and ammunition.

SUBMIT TO:

Responses to this Sources Sought notice should be received no later than 5:00 pm Eastern Time on March

14, 2025. Submit responses by email to the attention of Keith L. Singleton, Contract Specialist: Email – ksingleton@usbr.gov.

mailto:ksingleton@usbr.gov