Justification and Approval for Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements; Application for Brand Name Descriptions for Persistent Ground Surveillance System (PGSS) Parts

The United States Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Aberdeen Proving Ground, on behalf of Product Director (PD) Aerostats, intends to solicit a competitive, small business set-aside indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with an ordering ceiling of $49.7M with a guaranteed minimum of $500,000.00 that will be met through the first delivery/task order. The objective of the PGSS program is to provide Commanders with a responsive, dedicated, day/night, 360-degree detection, surveillance, and target marking capability that enables United States and Coalition forces to detect, locate, characterize, identify, track, and target forces in their battle space. The PGSS is an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform that is self contained, self sufficient, and transportable. This requirement requires the Contractor to have detailed technical knowledge of the PGSS to provide the following: program management, engineering services, sub system, component, repair parts and spare procurement, above user-level maintenance, training, and operation capability support for requirements inside and outside the continental United States. The anticipated effort is intended to be a two (2) year firm-fixed-price (FFP), cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), and cost-no fee IDIQ contract.

The Government intends to issue a solicitation on or about 06 October 2014. Proposals will be due 30 calendar days following release of the solicitation. The Government will only consider proposals offered from responsible small businesses applicable to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 541330. The Government intends to award one (1) FFP, CPFF, cost-no fee IDIQ contract, utilizing the tradeoff process in accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.101-1.

The solicitation will be issued electronically IAW FAR 4.502(a), 5.102(a), and 15.203(c), therefore, hardcopies will not be provided. All proposals shall be submitted electronically via Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) at solicitation release. In order to submit a proposal, offerors are required to have a current profile at the System for Award Management (https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/) in order to bid on solicitations. Please read the Vendor Bid Response System (BRS) Users Guide (.doc) available at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/ASFI_FAQ.cfm for details on the bidding process.

The closing date for this synopsis is 05 October at 4P.M. eastern daylight time. ALL QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS SYNOPSIS/PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE SHALL BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESSES: Brian.J.Holman2.civ@mail.mil AND Jennifer.L.Mattessino.civ@mail.mil.