Sources_Sought_-_Vehicular_Track_shoe.doc

Market Survey Notice Vehicular Track Shoe-Bradley Family of Vehicles

DESCRIPTION OF INTENT:

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT REQUESTING INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation. Also, it is not a request seeking contractors interested in being placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this questionnaire is voluntary and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this market survey and any follow-on information requests. Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. No solicitation document exists at this time, and calls requesting a solicitation will not be answered.

DISCLAIMER:

Reference herein to any specific commercial company, product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Department of the Army (DA). The opinions of the authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the DA, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

OBJECTIVE:

The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information on the industry capability to satisfy U.S. Army requirements for Vehicular Track Shoe requirement.

Item Description: The T-161 Vehicular Track Shoe assembly is a sustainment item, used on the Army’s Bradley Family of Vehicles (FOV). One T-161 track shoe is a complete ready to install unit. That unit is comprised of two rubberized track shoe bodies connected together by two rubberized pins, along with two pads and two fasteners, a center guide assemble and two end connector assemblies.

Quantity: 76,180

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT:

In satisfying the above objective requirements, it will be necessary for the service provider to perform the following functions:

1. Contractor will be responsible to provide a secured facility (to include a perimeter fence that meets or exceeds the standards for perimeter fencing as outlined in Army Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (ATTP) 3-39.32) for labor, tooling, transportation and all required parts required on this contract.

2. Contractor will be producing all assets to Condition Code “A”.

3. All parts produced by the contractor must meet or exceed U.S. Army Specifications.

RESPONSES:

Each response to this request for information is requested to include:

1. Number each response with the appropriate question number.

2. You do not have to repeat the question in your response.

3. If you cannot answer a question, please indicate “No Response.”

4. If a response will satisfy another question, state: “See response to question XXX.”

5. Include relevant sales media and product manuals. If providing an ACROBAT formatted manual, annotate the manual to indicate which material is applicable to the questions. If preferred, include Internet Web links to locations where animations/videos may be viewed.

6. If your sales media and/or manuals contain a restricted distribution statement, issue a release statement indicating that the restricted material may be distributed to Army personnel involved with this Market Survey.

7. Spell out any acronyms in their first instance.

9. Point(s) –of-Contact (POC) with associated contact information.

Request for Information (RFI) ― Questionnaire

1. Describe your knowledge and experience on designing vehicular track shoe.

2. List any issues you see in technical data rights and how it could impact your ability to perform the work.

3. How many employees are in your company?

4. What is your company’s annual revenue?

5. Are you currently registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and the Wide Area Workflow (WAWF)?

6. How many production lines do you currently have?

7. How many shifts are you currently running and how long can you maintain this?

8. Do you have the contracts in place to continue getting the material needed to produce additional vehicular track shoe requirements (keep production going)? If not what is the timeframe that you would need to get those contracts in place in order to produce additional vehicular track shoes?

9. Do you have any long lead items? If so what are they and what is the timeframe to get them?

10. What can be done to lessen the lead time for these long lead items?

11. Longest lead items for each vehicular track shoe?

12. What do you need to happen and by when in order to keep your current shifts running?

13. If more shifts are needed, how long for hiring actions and to get additional capacity up and running?

14. Can you add additional capacity now and if not what needs to be done to allow for it?

15. What are your current bottlenecks and what can be done to correct them?

16. What and how many vehicular track shoes can be produced concurrently?

17. Daily production output (for each vehicular track shoe) on one shift, 2 shifts...?

18. Constraints with subcontractors (sub-contractors; surge capabilities - lead time, additional shifts

19. Timeline for 1st delivery (normal production rate and time it takes to get to a surge capability)

20. What are your maximum surge requirements for each vehicular track shoe?

21. - Line change-out time / downtime between vehicular track shoes - example: switch from building one vehicular track shoe to another?

22. Certified in-house testing capability for PLT, on which vehicular track shoes?

23. Any foreseen delays within the next year (plant upgrades, scheduled down time, holidays)

24. Do you have other conflicting requirements that would inhibit a government build schedule? If you do have conflicting requirements, are they government requirements? If so, please provide those requirements and POCS in the government for those actions.

25. Point of Contact (POC)/Title:

26. Telephone No:

27. Any other pertinent information you care to enclose?

RESPONSE FORMAT:

Only electronic responses are requested. Please provide e-mail responses in PDF format to the Government POCs listed below. If you submit multiple e-mail messages, please make sure the subject lines include, for example, “message 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3,” as well as [Organization Name]. All interested entities (e.g. companies, non-profit organizations, and academic institutes), regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this request for information. All material submitted in response to this market survey must be unclassified and properly marked

RESPONSE DUE:

Responses to this market survey are DUE BY noon EST 22 May 2019. Please submit all responses and any questions prior to full response via email to mark.r.hirsch.civ@mail.mil and leann.m.littlefield.civ@mail.mil. Please format the subject line of the response email as follows: “[Organization Name] response to Market Survey – Bradley Vehicular Track Shoe”.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this market survey. The Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. §1905 to protect information qualifying as “confidential” under this statute. [To avoid possible confusion with the meaning of the term “confidential” in the context of Classified Information,” we will use the term

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6. The Government sometimes uses support contractors in evaluating responses. Consequently, responses that contain proprietary information may receive only limited or no consideration since the Respondent’s marking of data as “PROPRIETARY” will preclude disclosure of same outside the Government and therefore will preclude disclosure to these support contractors assisting the evaluation effort. The Government will use its best efforts to evaluate those responses that contain proprietary information without using support contractors consistent with the resources available.

GOVERNMENT POINTS OF CONTACT:

Mark Hirsch, Army Contracting Command (ACC) - Warren, email: mark.r.hirsch.civ@mail.mil LeAnn Littlefield, ACC-Warren, email: leann.m.littlefield.civ@mail.mil