Tactical Infrared Night Sureveillance System (TNWAS) - Research and Deveopment for Air-borne System

This announcement also serves as a Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract.
This notice is not a request for competitive proposals nor a request for offers. No solicitation package is available and telephone requests will not be honored.
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) intends to negotiate a sole source Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract with L-3 Communications Sonoma EO, Inc. to provide service support required to complete the Tactical Infrared Night Surveillance System (TNWAS) program. This sole source acquisition is accordance with authority of Title 10 U.S.C.2304(c)(1) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1.
The period of performance will be one year.
This requirement is for the acquisition of research and development (R & D) support services to build, integrate, and test an airborne-sensor system which provides a unique capability for conducting precise, high-resolution day/night surveillance of large areas, in a configuration meeting the extremely tight size, weight, and power constraints of the Navy/USMC Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS) aircraft.
This contract completes and integrates the products of several prior development efforts, described below, enabling delivery of the completed TNWAS system.
The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) with a size standard of 1,000 employees. The Federal Supply Code (FSC) /Product Service Code (PSC) procurement is AJ13 - R & D: Physical Sciences-Advanced Development.
Interested parties may identify their interests and capability to respond to this requirement within fifteen (15) days of the publication of this notice. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed purchase order based upon response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. No reimbursement for any cost connected with providing capability information will be provided.
The point of contact is: Dunia Hickey; Email: dunia.hickey@nrl.navy.mil.
Please reference this Notice of Intent number on your correspondence and in the "Subject" line of your email.

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The purpose of this amendment is to revise the response date;
from: 9/26/2018
to: 9/06/2018

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Request for Information

This is a Request for Information (RFI) pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e). The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Although "proposal" and "offeror" may be used in this RFI, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. This solicitation is issued for the purpose of searching for information for Research and Development for Airborne-sensor System to complete the Tactical Infrared Night Surveillance System (TNWAS) program.

Resources
In order to aid industry in evaluating their ability to perform the requirement, the following documents are available:

1. Draft Statement of Work

Vendor Response

The NRL asks that interested parties, at a minimum, supply the following information:

a) Name of company and point of contact (POC)
b) Telephone number, address and e-mail address of POC
c) DUNS and Cage Code
d) Business Size
e) Any Multiple Award Contracts (MAC) (SeaPort, GSA OASIS, etc)
f) Capability Statement and supporting documentation of the offered services that meet the requirements listed in this SOW & Personnel Qualifications.
g) General description of capabilities and experience in the subject matter of this RFI.
h) A list of any Navy, Department of Defense, federal, or commercial contracts performed during the past 5 years that are similar and/or related to the attached SOW.
i) A list of assumptions, if any, which were considered in formulating the response.
Submission of Information
Electronic responses shall be submitted via email to eric.sogard@nrlssc.navy.mil MS Word or PDF format.

Information received in response to an RFI shall be safeguarded adequately from unauthorized disclosure in accordance with FAR 15.207.

NO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION SHOUL

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