Fast Ropes

60, 90, and 120 Foot Rope Assembly

Sources Sought Notice

NOTICE Type:

Sources Sought / Market Research

SYNOPSIS:

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT / MARKET RESEARCH synopsis to request information for Government planning purposes only. Responses will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. The Government is not committed to issue a solicitation or award a contract as a result of this announcement.  Army Contracting Command - Warren is seeking qualified and capable potential vendors.  Since this is a sources-sought synopsis and not a solicitation for receipt of proposals or quotations, the Government does not encourage questions concerning this market research.

This request for information (RFI) is for the manufacturing of the 60,90, and 120 foot Rope Assembly  The Government is seeking to gain knowledge of interest, capabilities, and qualifications of various members of the community, to include both small and large businesses. 

This RFI is for the manufacturing of the following:

NOUN: Rope Assembly

NSN: 4020-01-338-3307, 4020-01-338-3308, 4020-01-338-3309

P/N MIL-F-44422/81349/4/1

NAICS CODE: 314994

If your company is interested and can demonstrate the firm’s ability, capability, and responsibility to deliver the equipment summarized above, we encourage you to respond to this announcement with a statement of your qualifications and capability.  In order to do so, you need to provide:

-Name and address of the firm.

-DUNS number and CAGE Code (valid System for Award Management (SAM) is MANDATORY).

-Your Firm’s Point of Contact (name, phone number, and email address).

-Your company’s business size status (small or large) (including Service-Disabled veteran owned, if applicable).  If claiming small business status, the information must be verifiable in SAM.

-A summary of the item’s commercial availability.

-A summary of your company’s expertise in the manufacturing of the Fast Ropes.

-A summary of your company’s delivery capability.

-A summary of your company’s experience conducting First Article Testing

-A summary of the place of performance.

Statements of your firm’s expertise should include reference to relevant contracts performed (including a description of the scope, quantity manufactured, contract number, and point of contact with phone number).

Responses to this sources sought are to be done in Microsoft Word and are limited to 15 pages, text in Times New Roman 12pt, and with one inch margins. The Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. 1905 to protect information qualifying as confidential under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the Government is willing to accept any proprietary (e.g., trade secret) restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following:

1. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data with the restrictive legend (all caps) proprietary with any explanatory text, so that the Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protected.

2. In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials that are truly proprietary (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as proprietary may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response - see item 6 below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected.

3. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in the possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data.

4. Proprietary data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the government, shall contain the proprietary legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and at the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for only portions of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends proprietary portion begins: and proprietary portion ends.

All interested firms and manufacturers, regardless of size, may respond to this request for information. Information submissions can include product literature and illustrations, relevant company background/experience.  Information submissions must be received no later than 30 days following posting of the RFI.  Responses should be addressed to Deborah A Hough, at the following address:  deborah.a.hough2.civ@mail.mil.

Again, this information is being requested for Government planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposals. The Government will not award a contract based upon responses to this announcement. The Government shall not reimburse or pay any costs for preparing or submitting information in response to this notice.

Contracting Office Address:

Army Contracting Command - DTA, ATTN: CCTA-APN-B, 6501 E. Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000

Point of Contact(s):

Deborah Hough 571-588-9136