Mountain Combat Boot

Added: May 15, 2009 2:27 pm The U.S. Army RDECOM - Natick Contracting Division, Kansas Street,
Natick, MA on behalf of the United States Army Natick Soldier Research
Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA in support of Product
Manager-Clothing and Individual Equipment utilizing utilize Simplified
Acquisitions Procedures FAR 13.5 Test Program for Certain Commercial Items,
has a requirement for Mountain Combat Boots for a commercial item
evaluation. The US Army requires Mountain Combat Boot (MCB) for use by
Soldiers in the rugged mountainous terrain of current areas of operation.
Proof of concept for this need has been demonstrated by numerous inquiries
by Soldiers to provide a hiking boot style footwear system incorporating new
technology and materials replacing the outdated technology of the old
all-leather ski-march boot. Improved technology is available to provide the
Soldier with added mission capability including enhanced ankle and foot
support, durability for the extreme environment s realized by Soldiers in
current Areas of Operation, and weight reduction. Production Demonstration
Models (PDMs) shall be submitted for each submission. The government
anticipates making multiple awards, but reserves the right to make one or no
awards. This will be a full and open competitive award. This is not a
request for proposals (RFP). The Government intends to make multiple awards
on a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)
contract as a result of the Request for Proposals (RFP). The Government
anticipates a two year ordering period. The anticipated total minimum
requirement is 60 pairs with a maximum total requirement of 26,600 units.
The successful offeror (s) will receive the first delivery order (DO) with
the minimum quantity (if there is more than one awardee, the quantity for
the first DO will be divided equally) mentioned above for the award.
Comments relating to this synopsis should be submitted via email to Nathan
Jordan at nathan.c.jordan@us.army.mil, no later than 29 May 2009 at 1000 edt.