ARMS_JSMC_Sources_Sought_Questions._Feb2019.pdf

JSMC Facility

Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support (ARMS)

Sources Sought

Purpose: The Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS), Product Director Main Battle Tank Systems (PD MBTS) is conducting a market survey seeking feedback from potential vendors interested in marketing and leasing underutilized areas of the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC), a Government Owned, Contractor Operated industrial plant, in Lima, Ohio.

Background: The facilities include 369 acres, 41 buildings with over 1.6 million square feet of manufacturing space, a two mile test track, 4.5 miles of railroad, a steam plant, a deep water fording test pit, test slopes, and a vehicle painting facility. Current production activities include combat vehicle manufacturing and assembly, all performed by the OEM who is also the facility operator and the sole tenant of JSMC-Lima. The current facility operator will continue to operate and maintain the facility. This sources sought will be for the marketing of the real property, located at JSMC-Lima (JSMC-L) under the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support (ARMS) Initiative pursuant to 10 U.S.C Sections 7551 through 7555 for commercial work.

The ARMS Initiative is a Congressionally established defense conversion/commercial reuse program to reduce Government owned costs at eligible facilities while maintaining a readiness capability and reducing the impact of defense downsizing on local communities. Through the authority of the ARMS Initiative, the contractor shall have the authority to market and lease underutilized space at JSMC-L and then receive a percentage of the lease payment proceeds, as compensation.

Scope of Work: The scope of work may include: identifying prime areas at JSMC-L for leasing; marketing, developing, and executing business arrangements to attract additional tenant activity in the JSMC facility. See Attachment 2, JSMC Draft Section C rev 11.

Responses: PD MBTS is hereby seeking information from interested parties to perform non-personal services mentioned in the Scope of Work at JSMC, Lima, Ohio. The intent of this Sources Sought is to request capability statements from interested parties.

Responses shall also address a notional scheme of support to meet the requirements of the scope of work. Responses should be no more than three pages in length. The three page submission shall include the JSMC Facility Support Capability Worksheet (Attachment 1). A page is defined as 8.5 x 11, 12 pt., Arial Font. Responses shall not contain any classified or proprietary information. PD MBTS invites potential firms to submit responses as a digital copy (pdf) to jennifer.k.mayers2.civ@mail.mil no later than 12 February 2019 at 5:00pm EST.

In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

The Government is under no obligation to issue a solicitation or to award any contract on the basis of this synopsis. The Government will not pay for any information solicited.

No evaluation letters or results will be issued to the respondents. No solicitation exists;

therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps. It is the potential firm’s responsibility to monitor the site for the release of further information. The Government intends to review all responses submitted by Industry and may use this data to refine requirements.

mailto:jennifer.k.mayers2.civ@mail.mil

JSMC Facility Support Capability Worksheet

Company Name and Address

Company Point of Contact and Phone Number:

E-mail Address:

DUNS/Cage Code:

Ownership:

Number of Years in Business:

Company NAICS Code:

Type of Business (S=small or L=large) pursuant to NAICS code

Average Annual Revenue Last 3 Years:

Number of Employees

Category of Small Business: 8(a). Woman, HUBZone, SDVOSB etc…

Additional Business Arrangement Info:

Relevant Work Performed in Previous 5 Years

Contract #

Contract Type

Dollar Value

Point of Contract (Name, Address & Phone Number

Description of Requirement

Description of How Above Identified Relevant Work is Similar to Supporting the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC) (reference work described in Scope of Work of Sources Sought)

1.

QUESTIONS

1) Will you need administrative office space at JSMC? If so, please explain the type of office space necessary to execute the scope of work. How many days after contract award would the requesting space at JSMC need to be made available?

2) What do you expect the Government to provide for this office?

3) What percentage of the tenant lease payments do you find reasonable for the Government to receive under the ARMS initiative?

4) To support budget planning, in which general annual cost range do you believe the work in this scope of work would fall?

a) $.5M - $1M

b) $1M - $1.5M

c) $1.5M - $2.5

5) Is your company interested in submitting a proposal? If your answer is "No", please explain.