Nose Radar I/R Equipment Lift Set

The Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst, NJ is requesting information pertaining to the procurement of the Radar Antenna Removal/Install Equipment, P/N: D0831E0001-1001 for the P-8A Poseidon Program in support of the United States Navy and various FMS countries. This Request for Information (RFI) notice is to solicit comments, questions and feedback from industry to meet the general requirements described above.

All interested businesses are encouraged to respond and should provide information that includes previous efforts and related data to Scott Bestreski, scott.a.bestreski.civ@us.navy.mil, no later than the response deadline specified below.  All information should reference this RFI number on the subject response line of the emailed response as well as on all enclosed documents.  Responses must include the company name, address, CAGE code, point of contact name and email/phone, and company business size.  Respondents may provide Rough Orders of Magnitude on any currently available product or company capabilities that will meet the Navy's requirements.  Any comments provided may or may not be included in a formal solicitation.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE AVAILABLE.  This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute as a solicitation.  It is a market research tool being used to determine potential and eligible vendors capable of providing the attached list of PSE.  The Government is not committed nor obligated to pay for the information provided, and no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this request for information.  In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.  All data received in response to this RFI, marked or designated as corporate or proprietary, will be fully protected from release outside the Government.  Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response.  Failure to respond to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future associated Request For Proposal that may be issued.  If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the SAM website: www.sam.gov.  It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any follow-on information.  It is anticipated that any procurement that may result from this RFI will have a significantly compressed scheduled for contract completion.

All responses should be received no later than 2:00 PM EST, 30 December 2025. Responses should be submitted electronically to Scott Bestreski in Microsoft Word format or Portable Document Format (PDF) at the following e-mail address: scott.a.bestreski.civ@us.navy.mil.  TELEPHONE INQUIRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Contracting Office Address: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Contracts Department, Code BL52000, Bldg 120, Hwy 547, Joint Base MDL, NJ 08733