Market_Survey.docx

Market Survey

DESCRIPTION OF INTENT

This is a Request for Information (RFI). No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation, nor is it a request seeking contractors to be placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this market survey 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. It is the responsibility of Industry, when providing any comments/responses, to properly mark such information that is considered proprietary or is otherwise restricted.

DISCLAIMER

The United States Government (USG) is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Nor is the Government obligated for like data in possession of third parties or for data which is afterwards placed in the public domain by the contractor or by third parties through no fault of the USG. Should the USG need to reproduce the protected data for distribution purposes between Government offices, all such data will be reproduced with restrictive legends in place.

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 USG acknowledges its obligations under the Federal Acquisition Regulation 3.104-4 to protect confidential information provided to the Government (18 U.S.C. §1905). Pursuant to this statute, the USG is willing to accept any trade secrets or proprietary restrictions placed upon qualifying data forwarded in response to this survey and to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure, subject to the following:

· Qualifying data must be clearly marked PROPRIETARY and be accompanied by an explanatory text so that the Government is clearly notified as to exactly what data so qualifies.

· Mark only data that is truly confidential.

· Do not mark data that is already in the public domain or is already in possession of the USG or third parties on an unclassified basis.

· Proprietary data transmitted electronically must have the PROPRIETARY legend on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail as well as at the beginning of the file. Proprietary information contained within the correspondence shall use the legends: “PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS” and “PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS.”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESPONDING TO THIS REQUEST

Responses to this request for information should be sent via e-mail to Dane Hansen, Contract Specialist at dane.j.hansen2.civ@mail.mil. You are requested to put “BRADLEY, AMPV, & MRLS Power, Diagnostics, and Optics Support Effort” in the subject line of the e-mail. Any request for clarifications shall also be addressed to Dane Hansen, Contract Specialist at dane.j.hansen2.civ@mail.mil.

Responses to the RFI are due on 4 November 2019. Please note that all questions and answers will be posted anonymously to this website. Questions that are received by this office five days prior to the RFI deadline will be considered late and may not be answered.

Any information that cannot be sent via email can be sent on two (2) identical compact disks (CDs) to the following address:

U.S. Army Contracting Command - Warren ATTN: Dane Hansen, Contract Specialist (M/S 564)

TACOM

6501 E 11 Mile Rd Warren, MI 48397

INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM INDUSTRY

Manufacturer

a. Name: ________________________________________________________

b. Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________

c. Website: ________________________________________________________

Personnel Responding to RFI

a. Name: ________________________________________________________

b. Title: ________________________________________________________

c. Company Responsibility/Position: ________________________________________________________

d. Telephone/Fax Numbers: ________________________________________________________

e. E-Mail Address: ________________________________________________________

f. CAGE (commercial and government entity) Code (if any): ________________________________________________________

OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this market survey questionnaire is to obtain information on industry capability to satisfy potential U.S. Army requirements for hardware, software, and field support of the Bradley Family of Vehicles (BFoV), including all M2/M7 variants; Armor Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV), including all variants; and Multiple Rocket Launch System (MRLS) . Project Manager Armored Fighting Vehicles (PM AFV) is considering sources to support Power Distribution, Diagnostics, and Optics. These sources of support must have experience in engineering, software, logistics, project management services, configuration management, total supply chain management, and field services to support vehicle technologies such as Soldier Machine Interface (SMI), Driver Optics, Diagnostics, and Power Distribution that are currently integrated on the BFoV M2/M7 variants, MRLS, and AMPV platforms.

For any or all of the below capabilities listed, please also respond with what technical data, government furnished information, hardware and/or software you require from the Government to support the BFoV M2/M7 variants, AMPV, and MRLS as outlined above.

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

General:

1. Describe your experience supporting military vehicle networks, including, gigabit Ethernet, 1553, and Computer Area Network (CAN) (J1939). Anticipate level of compliance with program standards, including VICTORY Architecture, Direct Support TMDE Reduction Application (DSTRA), and Information Assurance (IA) Standards.

2. Describe your experience supporting Vehicle Diagnostic Design as it applies to the Soldier Machine (Human Computer) Interface (SMI), Tactical Displays, and Vehicle Operation and Maintenance.

3. Describe your experience with Power Distribution support, with respect to interfacing with vehicle networks, and diagnostics.

4. Describe your experience supporting driver optics, with a minimum of 107 degrees wide by 40 degrees vertical viewing area.

5. Describe your company’s software capability to include software support of fielded products, software tools, and experience working other OEMs to support complex software systems.

6. Describe your company’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) certification. Identify the divisions(s) in your company that currently holds CMMI certifications.

7. Describe your Quality Management system (QMS). Is your company International Organization Standardization (ISO) 9001 certified?

8. Provide your facility clearance level and what level of classification you process at your contract facility.

9. Describe if your company’s components and Shop Replaceable Units (SRUs) are common with current United States Government (USG) components (as the Digital Vehicle Distribution Box (DVDB), Power Allocation Transfer Hub (PATH), Solid State Power Controller Unit (S2PC), Power Management Distribution Controller (PMDC), Smart Power Management Unit (SPMU), Driver Viewer Enhanced-Wide (DVE-Wide)) and SRUs.

Vehicle Diagnostics

Note: For the following questions, responses must indicate if ground combat vehicle(s) were ever supported

1) Describe your experience with the support of Vehicle Operational Diagnostics. Include support examples of fault detection, handling, reporting, and the use of sensors to enhance operational fault detection.

2) Describe your experience with the support of Vehicle Health Maintenance Operations. Include examples of fault isolation, reporting, and interaction with the vehicle Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs).

3) Describe your Vehicle diagnostic support experience with the interoperation of the Vehicle Health Management System (VHMS), Vehicle Diagnostic Management Software (VDMS), DSTRA, and IETMs.

4) Describe your company’s diagnostic approach to fault isolate to the SRU level using Interactive Built in Test (IBIT) and Background Built in Test (BBIT).

Soldier Machine Interface, Optics

Note: Responses must indicate experience supporting ground combat vehicle(s)

1) Describe your experience with the SMI. The SMI presents Bradley Crew, AMPV, and MRLS members/Maintainers with vehicle functionality and allows the Crew/Maintainers to input commands and make selections in the vehicle system. It also provides the Crew/Maintainers with status indicators, system information, and feedback.

2) Specifically describe support experience with states and modes effects, SMI, Driver Interfaces, Commanders and Squad Leaders Display interfaces, screen architecture, operator input, pop up and dynamic messages, VHMS interface and keyboard, display screens (Malfunction(MALF)), Vehicle Version Identification (VVID),and Embedded Vehicle Reprogramming (EVR)), and embedded training.

3) Specifically describe your support of enhanced driver viewing, and vision in a day or night setting.

Power Distribution

1) Describe experience supporting power distribution and control with respect to Vehicle States and Modes (normal operation, combat, silent watch, and degraded). Describe system support experience with load control, status, and cable disconnect monitoring.

2) Describe experience supporting power distribution and control with respect to software interfaces, Power Management Screens, and the Turret and Hull subsystems. Include interfaces with Vehicle networks (1553, CAN, and Ethernet).

3) Describe your company’s experience supporting Vehicle Power management and control with respect to Bradley Critical Items that are in support of Power Distribution, SMI, Diagnostics, and Optics Driver Viewer

4) Describe your company’s experience and diagnostic approach to fault isolate power system issues.

Capability: Modeling and Simulation

1) Describe your in-house Modeling and Simulation capabilities and tools.

Capability: Test and & Evaluation

1) Describe your in-house testing capabilities. How have you applied MIL-STD-810G?

2) Please describe your experience with Government Testing requirements such as component qualification testing, writing technical reports, and Safety Assessment Reports using DI-SAFT-80102b.

3) What data analysis tools and data recorders for test and evaluation do you use? Give examples of how you have applied to data analysis.

4) Please describe your organization’s experience with National Security Agency (NSA) and Information Assurance certification.

5) Provide your company’s plan to support USG test sites (manpower/equipment).

Capability: Logistics

1) Describe your organization’s experience and capability in planning, establishing and managing an Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Program that incorporates the following ILS Elements. This includes identifying computer-based tools/systems utilized:

(1) Computer Resources

(2) Design Interface

(3) Facilities & Infrastructure

(4) Maintenance Planning & Management

(5) Manpower & Personnel

(6) Packaging, Handling, Storage & Transportation (PHS&T)

(7) Product Support Management

(8) Supply Support

(9) Support Equipment

(10) Sustaining Engineering

(11) Technical Data Management

(12) Training & Training Support

2) Describe your organization’s experience, skill and capability with developing (1) Logistics Product Data, (2) Logistics Product Data Summaries, (3) Logistics Management Information (LMI) using Department of Defense (DoD) adopted industry standard GEIA-STD-0007 (Logistic Product Data) and military standard MIL-PRF-49506 (logistic management Information). Identify computer Based tools/systems utilized to manage and generate these product data items.

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