FHTV_STS_Sources_Sought_Market_Survey.doc

SOURCES SOUGHT MARKET SURVEY

Systems Technical Support (STS) for Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV)

1. Market Survey Request. This is a SOURCES SOUGHT MARKET SURVEY (hereafter referred to as market survey) to request information for United States Government (USG) planning purposes only. Responses will assist the USG in planning its acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. The USG is not committed to issue a solicitation or award a contract as a result of this announcement. Since this is a market survey and not a solicitation for receipt of proposals or quotations, the USG does not encourage questions concerning this market research.

2. Clarification of this Action. This request is an inquiry intended to measure the level of industry interest in competing for a potential USG contract. Responses to this survey may affirm the USG’s decision to issue the subject contract for full and open competition. This is not a pre-solicitation notice or a Request for Proposal (RFP). A contract will not be awarded from this announcement. Information provided regarding the potential contract as presented in this market survey is subject to change. Additionally, as a market survey, this inquiry does not bind the USG to solicit for or award a competitive contract. Participation in the market survey is wholly voluntary on the part of the contractor as no reimbursements will be made to any contractor for costs associated with its participation in this market survey. Data submitted to the USG will not be returned, but will remain archived as part of the market survey’s historic records. Lastly, participation in this market survey, while important to Army acquisition planners, is neither mandatory nor is it requisite to future participation by the contractor in this or a similar acquisition.

3. Questionnaire. Contractors who deem themselves qualified and who would be interested in competing for such a contract, please take the time to respond to the questionnaire below. Request that all responses be returned by 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time) 17 October 2019.

4. Instructions for Completing the Questionnaire. Electronic responses are required. Interested offerors are asked to complete the following questionnaire and provide answers back electronically to: Anthony Giacchina, anthony.j.giacchina.civ@mail.mil. The subject line must read “[Company Name] response to STS Sources Sought Market Survey.” Please number your questions in accordance with our numbering system so each answer corresponds to the correct question. Please spell out acronyms in their first instance. Please do not submit or send ANY classified information.

QUESTIONNAIRE

PLEASE NOTE: The USG is not asking you to develop or provide drawings or develop any technical data in response to this market survey.

1. Administrative Information:

a. Company Name

b. Mailing Address and Website

c. Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code (necessary to do business with the Federal Government)

d. Joint Certification Program (JCP) Number (necessary to do business with the Federal Government)

e. North America Industry Classification System (NAICS) number

f. Business size and eligibility under USG socio-economic programs and preference

g. Does your company use a cost system that has been certified by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)?

h. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number

2. Person Responding to Questionnaire:

a. Name

b. Title

c. Company Responsibility/Position

d. Telephone Number/Fax Number

e. E-Mail Address

Tailored Capability Statements for this requirement shall address the following areas:

3. Technical: PdM HTV is planning on contracting for system technical support (STS) services related to PdM HTV’s portfolio of heavy tactical vehicles. These services will include engineering design and integration, obsolescence management, technical manual updates, spare parts provisioning, packaging development, and related efforts. This notice seeks to identify firms staffed and capable of executing support efforts described above for currently fielded heavy tactical vehicle platforms as follows:

i. The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT): is a series of 10-ton, 8-wheel drive trucks designed for cross-country military missions to deliver all classes of supplies to combat and combat support units. The seven variants include: M977 light cargo, M985 heavy cargo, M978 tanker, M983 tractor, M983 Light Equipment Transporter (LET), M984 wrecker, and M1120 Load Handling System.

ii. The Palletized Load System (PLS) is a 16.5 ton, 10-wheel-drive truck designed for cross-country movement of combat-configured loads of ammunition and other classes of supply. The PLS includes the M1074/75A1 truck and its supporting equipment..

iii. The Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) M1070A1 is an 8X8 prime mover with 4 axles that is used to transport, recover, and evacuate a 70-ton combat loaded M1 series main battle tank when used with its companion trailer. The tank can be transported on road up to 45 mph and cross-country up to 15mph. The Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) is 94,106 lbs.

iv. The M1300 Tractor is a weight reduction and redistribution upgrade to the currently fielded M1070A1 Tractor to meet European Union (EU) highway transportation requirements. The EU’s axle load limit is 10,000 kg (22,046 lbs.) per tractor axle. The modifications reduce the GVW of the M1300 Tractor to 78,120 lbs which meets the EU axle load limit.

v. The M1302 Trailer is an 8-axle semitrailer rated to transport a maximum 85-short-ton payload. It is used exclusively with the M1300 tractor, and allows for the transportation of the heaviest Army-tracked vehicle loads. The M1302 provides the capability, when used with the M1300 tractor, to load, secure, and transport operational and disabled tracked vehicles at a maximum weight of 78.5 short tons, and will meet European Union highway transportation requirements with a payload of 75 short tons.

a. Describe your firm’s experience and corporate knowledge in conducting Non-Reoccurring Engineering (NRE) studies for the development and integration of heavy tactical vehicles that are expected to achieve highly challenging interoperability, vehicle and crew survivability, mobility, supportability, availability, affordability and transportability objectives.

b. Describe your firm’s ability to develop and integrate: reliable replacement systems and sub-systems; analyze failed systems and parts and provide solutions or substitutes; improved capabilities or new technologies for heavy tactical vehicles.

c. Delineate the products/services that your company primarily offers.

4. Facilities: This notice seeks to identify firms that have or can develop and obtain the expertise, capacity, facilities, and qualifications for potentially managing, designing, and developing solutions for fielded heavy tactical vehicles.

a. Describe your firm’s facilities, analysis tools, and vehicle or component prototyping capabilities which would be used to execute assigned support efforts.

5. Management

a. Describe, with references to past experience (contract number, supervising agencies and other applicable documentation/details), your firm’s capabilities in terms of expertise, corporate knowledge, processes and environments necessary to manage complex technology developments and integration of these developments into existing vehicle platforms.

b. Describe your firm’s ability and experience in handling classified aspects of a program.

6. Experience

a. Describe your firm’s capabilities and experience in developing and producing engineering and logistics solutions for vehicles and systems.

b. Describe your firm’s existing efforts that are potentially comparable and applicable to this effort. The Government does not own the Technical Data Packages (TDP) for the heavy tactical vehicle platforms needing STS services.

c. Describe your firm’s experience with reverse engineering whole vehicle platforms, vehicle systems, or sub-systems. If your firm has done reverse engineering in the past, provide the duration required to reverse engineer and complete the project. Include any past contracts with the Government where reverse engineering was part of the contract deliverable or required to meet the contract deliverable. The approximate number of vehicle platforms which may need support is 28.

d. Describe your firm’s capability to stand up a team equipped with well-established processes for product development and integration.

e. Describe your firm’s systems engineering expertise, processes, and environments that a complex development effort will require and the integration of these activities/products to achieve the established system-level objectives.

f. Describe your firm’s experience or expertise supporting the Army’s technical manuals, spare parts support, and required data submissions to support fielded vehicles and spare parts procurements.

g. Describe your firm’s quality control system and its alignment with industry-wide standards in quality control.