APN-194C Production, Improvement, Maintenance, Test & Support

Closed Pre-Solicitation Posted

Solicitation number
N68335-20-R-0359
Agency
Responses due
Set-aside
No set-aside

Opportunity facts

Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

This Pre-Solicitation Notice is for the APN-194C Production, Improvement, Maintenance, Test & Support contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The contract requirements include integration, laboratory and flight data analysis, anomaly resolution, flight test equipment development, software modification and sustainment, qualification test support, engineering change proposals, training, technical support, and program management for the APN-194C Radar Altimeter installed on 19 aircraft types. Responses to this notice will be considered to determine whether to conduct a competitive procurement, with a response deadline of November 2, 2020.

There is no set-aside designated for this opportunity. The potential incumbent and only known company possessing the required technical expertise for this sole source requirement is Honeywell Aerospace in Columbia, Maryland. As the original equipment manufacturer and developer of the APN-194 Radar Altimeter, Honeywell Aerospace is the sole company able to provide the proprietary data and experience necessary to support the continued production and improvement of this system over the lifetime of the 19 aircraft types on which it is installed.

Notice text

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, NJ intends to negotiate on a non-competitive basis with Honeywell Aerospace of Columbia, MD (CAGE: 15151) for a requirement for the APN-194C efforts including, but  not limited to, integration, laboratory and flight data analysis, anomaly resolution and deficiency correction, flight test equipment development and integration, software modification and sustainment, qualification test support, engineering change proposals, training and technical support and program management. The APN-194 Radar Altimeter is installed on 19 Type/ Model/ Series. Several of the Bit Piece components in the APN-194 have been discontinued without replacement.

Honeywell Aerospace, as the sole developer and Original Equipment Manufacturer of the APN-194, is the only known company with the technical knowledge, proprietary data, and expertise necessary to provide this requirement.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, the government will consider all responses received within fifteen days after the date of publication of the synopsis. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received as a result of this notice of intent will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.

Notice history

Notice Type Posted
This notice Latest pre-solicitation Pre-Solicitation
APN-194C Production, Improvement, Maintenance, Test and Support Original Pre-Solicitation

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