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PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

MTS Systems Support Part 1 General Information

The Physical Simulation & Test (PS&T) group performs highly-advanced vehicle characterization and durability tests on the Army’s vehicle fleet. The group leads the Army’s physical simulation effort for ground vehicles by successfully maintaining and operating the PS&T and the Tire, Run-Flat, and Roadwheel Simulation Laboratory. In this capacity, the PS&T regularly tests HMMWVs, MRAPs, Strykers, and trailers, among other vehicles, to validate and verify the durability of whole-vehicle and component systems, such as armor, frames, suspensions, run-flats, tires, and roadwheels.

The Laboratory contains several state-of-the-art physical simulation machines. For instance, the PSL contains three Reconfigurable N-Post Simulators (RNPS), which test the durability of various whole-vehicle systems and suspensions. The Laboratory also contains the Vehicle Inertial Properties Evaluation Rig (VIPER), which measures the center of gravity (CG) and other mass characteristics of whole-vehicle systems. Vehicle designers and test engineers use this data to evaluate various armor configurations, to predict and analyze rollover, to reconstruct accidents, and to examine vehicle stability, handling, and ride, among many other investigations.

The Laboratory also contains the Load Handling System Simulator (LHSS), which evaluates the durability of trailer-mounted water tanks; the Turret Motion Base Simulator (TMBS), which examines both the durability of tank turrets and a user’s response to vehicles within a virtual space; and, the Pintle Motion Base Simulator (PMBS), which verifies the durability of lunette-mounted trailers. These three simulators are highly specialized, and thus contribute to the PS&T unique capabilities. No other facility – within either the automotive community or even the broader physical simulation community – can match the PS&T unique ability to validate the durability and reliability of military-grade ground vehicles.

Soldier safety is a critical concern for Army vehicle designers and MRAP program support engineers. These personnel perform advanced computer-based analytical simulations before the vehicle prototype and production phases to study and develop safe military vehicles. To properly perform these simulations, these critical personnel require accurate data and realistic experimental conditions. As a result, the Tank-Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) it is also required to on call quick laboratory testing that demands Ground Vehicle Simulation Laboratory (GVSL) to be alwasys ready.

Access to the source that will provide equipment support is critical in performing a full test and evaluation of the military vehicles. That will improve the safety of MRAPs, Strykers, HMMWVs, Medium Tactical Trucks, and other critical vehicle systems.

1. General: This is a non-personnel services contract to provide the MTS Systems Support for Testing. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

1.1 Description of Services/Introduction: The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform calibration, and spare parts support as defined in this Performance Work Statement except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

1.2 Background: This requirement is for the access support of the following equipment:

· Reconfigurable N-Post Simulator (RNPS) (16 MTS 38 kip and 5 MTS 11 kip actuators)

· Pintle Motion Base Simulator (PMBS)

· Mission Equipment Vibration Table (MEVT)

· Multi-Axial Simulation Table (MAST)

· Riehle

· Shock Test Evaluation Machine (STEM)

· Suspension Characterization Unit (SCU)

· FlexTest 200

· FlexTest 100

· FlexTest 60

· FlexTest 40

· FlexTest GT

· 832 Bushing Tester

1.3 Objectives: The primary objective of this requirement is to expand the capabilities of the Physical Simulation & Test (PS&T) by utilizing the MTS Systems Support. With this requirement, PS&T will be able to have quick access to spare parts and calibration support for their equipment.

1.4 Scope:

1.4.1 The Contractor shall, act as an independent contractor and not as an agent of the Government, accomplish the following:

1.4.1.1 Calibration

1.4.1.1.1 The contractor shall perform calibration on RNPS

1.4.1.1.2 The contractor shall perform calibration on PMBS

1.4.1.1.3 The contractor shall perform calibration on MEVT

1.4.1.1.4 The contractor shall perform calibration on MAST

1.4.1.1.5 The contractor shall perform calibration on SCU

1.4.1.1.6 The contractor shall perform calibration on Riehle

1.4.1.1.7 The contractor shall perform calibration on STEM

1.4.1.1.8 The contractor shall perform calibration on FlexTest 200

1.4.1.1.9 The contractor shall perform calibration on FlexTest 100

1.4.1.1.10 The contractor shall perform calibration on FlexTest 60

1.4.1.1.11 The contractor shall perform calibration on FlexTest 40

1.4.1.1.12 The contractor shall perform calibration on FlexTest GT

1.4.1.1.13 The contractor shall perform calibration on 832 Bushing Tester

1.4.1.2 Spare Parts

1.4.1.2.1 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for RNPS

1.4.1.2.2 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for PMBS

1.4.1.2.3 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for MEVT

1.4.1.2.4 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for MAST

1.4.1.2.5 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for SCU

1.4.1.2.6 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for Riehle

1.4.1.2.7 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for STEM

1.4.1.2.8 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for FlexTest 200

1.4.1.2.9 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for FlexTest 100

1.4.1.2.10 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for FlexTest 60

1.4.1.2.11 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for FlexTest 40

1.4.1.2.12 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for FlexTest GT

1.4.1.2.13 The contractor shall provide Spare Parts for 832 Bushing Tester

1.4.1.3 The contractor shall provide RPC Pro Training

1.5 Period of Performance: The period of performance shall be for one (1) Base Year of 12 months and two (2) 12-month option years.

1.6 General Information

1.6.1 Quality Control: The contractor shall develop and maintain an effective quality control program to ensure services are performed in accordance with this PWS. The contractor shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non-recurrence of defective services. The contractor’s quality control program (QCP) is the means by which he assures himself that his work complies with the requirement of the contract. QCP is to be delivered, i.e., within 30 days after contract award or with the contractors proposal if it is an evaluation factor, three copies of a comprehensive written QCP shall be submitted to the KO and COR within 5 working days when changes are made thereafter. After acceptance of the quality control plan the contractor shall receive the contracting officer’s acceptance in writing of any proposed change to his QC system.

1.6.2 Quality Assurance: The government shall evaluate the contractor’s performance under this contract in accordance with the Quality Assurance Surveillance. This plan is primarily focused on what the Government must do to ensure that the contractor has performed in accordance with the performance standards. It defines how the performance standards will be applied, the frequency of surveillance, and the minimum acceptable defect rate(s).

1.6.3 Recognized Holidays:

New Year’s Day

Labor Day

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

Columbus Day

President’s Day

Veteran’s Day

Memorial Day

Thanksgiving Day

Independence Day

Christmas Day

1.6.4 Hours of Operation: The contractor is responsible for conducting business, between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the Government facility is closed due to local or national emergencies, administrative closings, or similar Government directed facility closings. For other than firm fixed price contracts, the contractor will not be reimbursed when the government facility is closed for the above reasons. The Contractor must at all times maintain an adequate workforce for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined within this PWS when the Government facility is not closed for the above reasons. When hiring personnel, the Contractor shall keep in mind that the stability and continuity of the workforce are essential.

1.6.5 Place of Performance: The work to be performed under this contract will be performed at TARDEC - Ground Vehicle Simulation Laboratory (GVSL) Warren, MI and/or MTS Systems, Eden Prairie, MN.

1.6.6 Type of Contract: The government will award a Firm-Fixed Price contract

1.6.7 Security Requirements: The Contractor shall establish a security plan. The contractor shall escort vendor field service representatives (FSRs) to and from only their equipment. The contractor will provide security personnel to monitor FSR's maintenance/repair activities to ensure they remain in their designated area and not access other vendor bid sample areas. The contractor is responsible for enforcing this security mandate and shall remove violators from the premises immediately and for the duration of the support. TARDEC-GVSL will provide the contractor the Authorized Access List. Any additional requests for access must be approved by the TARDEC Project Lead Engineer.

Contractor personnel performing work under this contract must have a confidential at time of the proposal submission, and must maintain the level of security required for the life of the contract. The security requirements are in accordance with the attached DD254.

1.6.7.1 PHYSICAL Security: The contractor shall be responsible for safeguarding all government equipment, information and property provided for contractor use

1.6.7.2 Key Control. The Contractor shall establish and implement methods of making sure all keys/key cards issued to the Contractor by the Government are not lost or misplaced and are not used by unauthorized persons. NOTE: All references to keys include key cards. No keys issued to the Contractor by the Government shall be duplicated. The Contractor shall develop procedures covering key control that shall be included in the Quality Control Plan. Such procedures shall include turn-in of any issued keys by personnel who no longer require access to locked areas. The Contractor shall immediately report any occurrences of lost or duplicate keys/key cards to the Contracting Officer.

1.6.7.2.1 In the event keys, other than master keys, are lost or duplicated, the Contractor shall, upon direction of the Contracting Officer, re-key or replace the affected lock or locks; however, the Government, at its option, may replace the affected lock or locks or perform re-keying. When the replacement of locks or re-keying is performed by the Government, the total cost of re-keying or the replacement of the lock or locks shall be deducted from the monthly payment due the Contractor. In the event a master key is lost or duplicated, all locks and keys for that system shall be replaced by the Government and the total cost deducted from the monthly payment due the Contractor.

1.6.7.2.2 The Contractor shall prohibit the use of Government issued keys/key cards by any persons other than the Contractor’s employees. The Contractor shall prohibit the opening of locked areas by Contractor employees to permit entrance of persons other than Contractor employees engaged in the performance of assigned work in those areas, or personnel authorized entrance by the Contracting Officer.

1.6.7.3 Lock Combinations. The Contractor shall establish and implement methods of ensuring that all lock combinations are not revealed to unauthorized persons. The Contractor shall ensure that lock combinations are changed when personnel having access to the combinations no longer have a need to know such combinations. These procedures shall be included in the Contractor’s Quality Control Plan.

1.6.8 Special Qualifications: The contractor is responsible for ensuring all employees possess and maintain current Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level I professional certification during the execution of this contract

1.6.9 Post Award Conference/Periodic Progress Meetings: The Contractor agrees to attend any post award conference convened by the contracting activity or contract administration office in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 42.5. The contracting officer, Contracting Officers Representative (COR), and other Government personnel, as appropriate, may meet periodically with the contractor to review the contractor's performance. At these meetings the contracting officer will apprise the contractor of how the government views the contractor's performance and the contractor will apprise the Government of problems, if any, being experienced. Appropriate action shall be taken to resolve outstanding issues. These meetings shall be at no additional cost to the government.

1.6.10 Contracting Officer Representative (COR): The (COR) will be identified by separate letter. The COR monitors all technical aspects of the contract and assists in contract administration The COR is authorized to perform the following functions: assure that the Contractor performs the technical requirements of the contract: perform inspections necessary in connection with contract performance: maintain written and oral communications with the Contractor concerning technical aspects of the contract: issue written interpretations of technical requirements, including Government drawings, designs, specifications: monitor Contractor's performance and notifies both the Contracting Officer and Contractor of any deficiencies; coordinate availability of government furnished property, and provide site entry of Contractor personnel. A letter of designation issued to the COR, a copy of which is sent to the Contractor, states the responsibilities and limitations of the COR, especially with regard to changes in cost or price, estimates or changes in delivery dates. The COR is not authorized to change any of the terms and conditions of the resulting order.

1.6.11 Key Personnel: The follow personnel are considered key personnel by the government: Contract manager/Alternate contract manager, Systems Engineer and Project Lead Engineer. The contractor shall provide a contract manager who shall be responsible for the performance of the work. The name of this person and an alternate who shall act for the contractor when the manager is absent shall be designated in writing to the contracting officer. The contract manager or alternate shall have full authority to act for the contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operation of this contract. The contract manager or alternate shall be available between 8:00 a.m. to 4:30p.m., Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the government facility is closed for administrative reasons.

1.6.12 Identification of Contractor Employees: All contract personnel attending meetings, answering Government telephones, and working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties are required to identify themselves as such to avoid creating an impression in the minds of members of the public that they are Government officials. They must also ensure that all documents or reports produced by contractors are suitably marked as contractor products or that contractor participation is appropriately disclosed. Contractor personnel will be required to obtain and wear badges in the performance of this service.

1.6.13 Organizational Conflict of Interest: Contractor and subcontractor personnel performing work under this contract may receive, have access to or participate in the development of proprietary or source selection information (e.g., cost or pricing information, budget information or analyses, specifications or work statements, etc.) or perform evaluation services which may create a current or subsequent Organizational Conflict of Interests (OCI) as defined in FAR Subpart 9.5. The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer immediately whenever it becomes aware that such access or participation may result in any actual or potential OCI and shall promptly submit a plan to the Contracting Officer to avoid or mitigate any such OCI. The Contractor’s mitigation plan will be determined to be acceptable solely at the discretion of the Contracting Officer and in the event the Contracting Officer unilaterally determines that any such OCI cannot be satisfactorily avoided or mitigated, the Contracting Officer may effect other remedies as he or she deems necessary, including prohibiting the Contractor from participation in subsequent contracted requirements which may be affected by the OCI.