Market Research Questions 20260716.docx

Market Research Questions

In your honest assessment, can your company fulfill the requirements of this SOW in its entirety?

______ YES (Please proceed with questionnaire)

______ NO (Please do not proceed with the questionnaire)

1) What type of company are you; profit, nonprofit, not for profit?

2) Describe how you would keep costs to a minimum.

3) Do you currently have the setup and ability to discuss classified information over the phone and use a classified computer at your location? Please describe your ability to handle and work with classified information.

4) Describe your current knowledge and experience with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Control. Additionally, please describe and provide your technology control plan.

5) Describe your previous US Government contracts as they pertain to Government data rights.

a. Additionally, do you have any problems with the Government having full data rights or unlimited use right?

b. Additionally, are you willing to disseminate the knowledge obtained under this Research and Development contract to Military Centers of Excellence and other Government organizations?

6) Explain in detail your previous experience working with Army Depots.

7) Explain in detail your previous experience working with the US Government test community and acquiring Safety Confirmations for developed technology. US Government test community includes:

a. Army Test and Evaluation Command

b. Yuma Test Center

c. Aberdeen Test Center

8) Explain in detail your previous experience working with Military Centers of Excellence.

9) To keep travel, shipping and personnel costs low, do you have the following capabilities onsite at your main location?

a. Program Management

b. Design and Development

c. Data Acquisition, Instrumentation & Electronics Labs

d. Storage and Maintenance Facilities

e. Complete Test Course

10) To keep travel, shipping and personnel costs low, do you have the following capabilities onsite or within 50 miles of your main location?

a. Manufacturing

i. If not onsite, how many miles away is your manufacturer? Please identify your manufacturer.

b. Impact and Blast Testing

i. If not onsite, how many miles away is your impact and blast testing?

11) Are you familiar with and do you have the proper facilities to secure, store, and maintain Military vehicles and equipment per government security classification guides?

a. Additionally, can you accommodate up to 10 vehicles at a time with numerous other equipment?

b. Additionally, elaborate on your ability to accommodate and provide separate security measures for multiple groups at the same time while providing testing resources.

12) What material handling equipment do you have and what is your previous experience with Military vehicles and equipment maintenance?

13) Describe your relevant Data Acquisition and instrumentation capability.

a. Additionally, describe your previous experience using data acquisition and instrumentation to capture relevant data in military vehicles and equipment.

14) Describe your knowledge and experience using Computer-Aided Design, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and Modeling & Simulation (M&S).

a. Additionally, what software do you currently use?

b. Additionally, what’s your experience correlating your FEA and M&S to actual testing of a system?

15) Describe your electronics capability; meaning developing, building and testing of controllers to include software.

16) Describe your ability to conduct root cause analysis of failed electronics.

17) To keep travel, shipping and personnel costs low, do you have an onsite test course which can mimic Government Test Center courses to evaluate vehicles, technology, and equipment?

18) Please describe your test site and ALL the courses you have (Example: percentages of side slopes and longitudinal grades).

19) Can you execute 3,000 miles onsite to evaluate vehicle, technology, and equipment durability?

a. Additionally, please describe the length and type of road courses you have; meaning paved roads, secondary roads, cross country, and trails.

20) Do you have environmental chambers?

a. Additionally, please elaborate on the number, capacity, and capability of each environmental chamber.

21) If your test course is not onsite, how many miles away is it?

22) What is your projected added cost and special shipping required to accommodate a vehicle up to 80 tons (160,000 pounds) to be moved to and from the offsite test course to your maintenance facility?

23) Is the offsite test course owned and operated by a different company, if so please identify?

24) If your offsite test course is owned and operated by a different company do they have the ability to secure, store, and maintain Military vehicles and equipment per government security classification guides?

25) Describe your previous experience and knowledge with respect to impact and blast testing. Also, please address the follow-on questions:

a. Do you currently have an established blast site which is fully operational?

b. Elaborate on your impact testing capacity.

c. Elaborate on your capability to conduct soil analysis and capacity to test in non situ soil.

d. Elaborate on your instrumentation capability relevant to blast and impact testing.

e. Do you possess or have readily available access to Anthropomorphic Test Devices?

f. In pounds, what’s the maximum charge your blast site can handle?

i. Additionally, what’s the maximum charge size you have previously executed and what year was that test?

g. How many miles away is your blast site from your prime location?

h. Assuming you had an active contract and the Government requested a blast test, approximately how long would it take from the request to execute the test? (Assumption: the test equipment is onsite at your location ready to execute).

i. Please provide your safety and security procedures for testing at your impact and blast sites.

26) This contract needs to be able to conduct cold regions evaluation; snow and ice testing.

a. Can this be conducted at your location?

b. Elaborate on your current ability to characterize snow, ice, and frozen soil. Please include the equipment you currently possess and have experience using.

c. Describe and elaborate on your relevant course maintenance equipment.

d. How much annual snow fall do you receive each year?

e. What’s your average temperature in November, December, January, February and March?

27) Referencing question 18 above “test course” and question 25 above “impact and blast testing”, do you currently have the capability to conduct mobility, durability, and obstacle testing on vehicles and equipment in both warm and cold weather regions? Please describe your capability and previous experience and knowledge.

28) Describe in detail your previous experience developing, fabricating, and evaluating Countermeasure equipment; rollers, blades, plows, and wire neutralization systems. Also, please address the follow-on questions:

a. How long have you been executing this type of work?

b. Describe your knowledge of loads applied to vehicles, tongue weight, and standoff distance.

c. Elaborate on your knowledge and experience with respect to Countermeasure mobility and durability testing.

d. Describe your experience integrating these technologies onto a suite of host platforms and testing them (Please specify each vehicle);

i. Small unmanned vehicles

ii. Light Tactical Vehicles

iii. Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles

iv. Route Clearance Vehicles

v. Armored Fighting Vehicles

vi. Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles

vii. Main Battle Tank Systems

e. Describe your knowledge and experience conducting Countermeasure effectiveness testing at your location; procedure development, soil consistency, targets, any Data Acquisition required, equipment, and vehicles used.

29) Explain in detail your previous experience with combat vehicle threat detection and neutralization. Additionally, please describe the different countermeasure devices and vehicle integration architectures that you have evaluated.

30) Explain in detail your previous experience with route clearance operations, technology development, and improvements.

31) Explain in detail your previous experience with vehicle and crew survivability for tracked and wheeled tactical ground vehicles per the following categories:

a. Blast mitigation

b. Interior crew survivability

c. Armor

d. Active protection

e. Passive protection

32) Explain in detail your previous experience with Military bridging and gap defeat.

33) Explain in detail your previous experience with Military track and suspension development and improvements. Additionally, elaborate on your current track testing capacity and equipment utilized.

34) Explain in detail your previous experience with Military power management applications.

35) Explain in detail your current and relevant experience with Military noise reduction applications.

a. Additionally, have you previously executed noise evaluation testing per Government standards? If so, what year did you execute this evaluation and what standard did you use?

36) Explain in detail your previous experience with evaluating unmanned applications thru unstructured terrain; robotic and autonomous.

a. Additionally, elaborate on your experience with vehicle electronics and remote by-wire control of vehicles. Please specify which vehicles you have experience with.

37) Elaborate on your current knowledge and experience with providing renewable energy in an expeditionary environment.

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