RCIS_Acq_Strategy_Notice_Revised.pdf

ROUTE CLEARANCE & INTERROGATION SYSTEM (RCIS) ACQUISITION STRATEGY NOTICE

PURPOSE

The purpose of this summary is to provide interested industry parties an understanding of the Route Clearance & Interrogation System (RCIS) Type I capability and the Government’s planned acquisition approach to achieve this capability. This information is supplementary to the previous 2015 Request for Information (RFI) and is for informational purposes only. There will be no contract award as a result of this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor does this announcement imply or guarantee a forthcoming solicitation will be issued in the future. This summary is not a request seeking contractors interested in being placed on a solicitation mailing list. The Government is not requesting responses to this notice; this posting is for informational purposes only. It is not necessary to respond to this announcement in order to be eligible for future contract awards. The Government will not reimburse any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or for any follow-on information requests.

CAPABILITY SUMMARY

The RCIS Type I will provide the Army with a capability to optionally man, or operate in an unmanned mode, the Army-legacy High Mobility Engineering Excavator (HMEE) Type I vehicle. The RCIS Type I also provides additional interrogation features to be used on the HMEE vehicle and is intended for use primarily by the Army Combat Engineer during Route Clearance operations. In the unmanned mode, the

RCIS Type I will be wirelessly controlled by an operator located in a Mine Protected Clearance Vehicle

(MPCV)/Buffalo control vehicle.

ACQUISITION APPROACH

The Government intends to perform a full and open competition to award a contract with options that support the total system performance for the RCIS Type I: a base contract for Engineering and

Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, with additional priced options for Low Rate Initial Production

(LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP). As part of the Request for Proposal, the Government will provide the Government Furnished Information (GFI) as described below, to include interface data relative to the HMEE platform modifications. After contract award and throughout the contract performance, MPCV/Buffalos and modified HMEEs will be provided to the awardee as Government

Furnished Property (GFP). For all RCIS Type I’s, it will be the contractor’s responsibility to develop the

Semi-Autonomous Control (SAC) system (i.e. robotic kit), and integrate it onto the modified HMEE and

MPCV/Buffalo.

The EMD phase will consist of a series of event-driven technical reviews, including Systems

Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test

Readiness Review (TRR), System Verification Review/Functional Configuration Audit (SVR/FCA), and

Production Readiness Review (PRR). These reviews will coincide with the contractor’s design and integration of the robotic kit to the modified HMEE and MPCV/Buffalo vehicles, and subsequent delivery of the RCIS Type I’s to the Government for Pre-Production Qualification Testing (PPQT). The PPQT will be a Government-led, contractor-supported, series of test events to verify performance in accordance with contractual requirements. EMD will culminate with the SVR/FCA and a Production Readiness

Review.

Upon successful completion of EMD, the Government will have the ability to exercise the following production options for the RCIS Type I: two LRIP options for a total of 22 RCIS Type I’s, followed by two additional options for FRP for a total of 104 RCIS Type I’s. Initial LRIP assets will be used for

Production Qualification Testing and Operational Testing, which will be Government-led, contractor-supported events to verify the production configuration meets contractual requirements.

Additional intended options on this contract will support the total system performance approach for the

RCIS Type I, including: production options to achieve a portion (126) of the total Approved Acquisition

Objective (AAO) of 226; option for Total Package Fielding Support; option for System Technical Support

(STS) to support any emerging system technical needs during production; option for Interim Contractor

Support (ICS) for some period immediately following the start of fielding and prior to the RCIS Type I transitioning to organic Army maintenance and sustainment support; and an option for a separately priced Technical Data Package (TDP) for the RCIS Type I.

LEGACY VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS AND GFE/GFI

The HMEE platform requires modifications (platform modifications) not currently in the design configuration, which will enable the vehicle to accept and be operated by a robotic kit. It is the

Government’s intent to modify the HMEE vehicles in order to enable the vehicle’s major functions

(steering, braking, excavation, and throttle) to be controlled electronically through a central robotic interface control point on the HMEE (robotic interface). For EMD planning purposes, the Government intends to provide GFE and GFI, as follows: up to six HMEEs with platform modifications; up to six

MPCV/Buffalo control vehicles; an Interface Control Document (ICD), to interface the robotic kit to the modified HMEE. For production planning purposes (LRIP and FRP), the Government intends to provide, GFE 126 HMEEs with platform modifications (22 in LRIP and 104 in FRP).