SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- TACOM WARREN, WARREN, MICHIGAN 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV05R0991
- Response Due
- 8/29/2005
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2005
- Description
- THE US ARMY TANK-AUTOMOTIVE & ARMAMENTS COMMAND (TACOM) PROPOSES TO SOLICIT, NEGOTIATE, AND AWARD A CONTRACT ON A SOLE SOURCE BASIS UNDER FAR PART 6.302-1 WITH SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE. THIS CONTRACT IS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN ARMOR MATERIALS AND ARMOR SYSTEMS CONCEPTS. SPECIFICALLY IN THE AREA OF DYNAMIC INTERCEPT ARMOR, DWELL INTERFACE DEFEAT EXPERIMENTS, CHARACTERIZATION OF BRITTLE ARMOR MATERIALS, METALLIC ARMOR MATERIALS, EVALUATION STUDIES OF SAID ARMORS, PORTABILITY OF PARALLELIZED ELASTIC IMPACT CODE(EPIC), STUDIES IN MIND BLAST AND IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES (IED). THERE WILL BE OPTIONS FOR TRANSPARENT ARMOR ANALYSIS, MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION. ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT, AND ARMOR/ANTI ARMOR DESIGN AND ANALYSIS. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS EFFORT ARE TO UPSCALE THE DYNAMIC INTERCEPT ARMOR FOR VEHICLE APPLICATION, THE OTHER OBJECTIVES FALL UNDER CHARACTERIZING ARMOR MATERIALS BOTH CERAMIC, METTALIC, AND TRANSPARENT FOR USE IN MODELING AND THEN EXPERIMENTATION TO PROVE RESULTS. ARMORS CHARACTERIZED WITH EPIC WILL UNDERGO EXTENSIVE MODELING AND SIMULATION FOR PROOF OF CAPABILITY. THE PROPOSED SEVEN YEAR DURATION CONTRACT IS VALUED AT $5,045,000. THE CONTRACT WILL INCLUDE OPTIONS VALUED AT AN ADDITIONAL $2,600,000. THE NEGOTIATED CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED ON A COST PLUS FIXED FEE LEVEL OF EFFORT BASIS. THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE CONTRACT, INCLUDING OPTIONS WILL BE $7,645,000.
- Place of Performance
- Address: TACOM WARREN, WARREN, MICHIGAN 48397-5000
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Record
- SN00846401-W 20050715/050713212356 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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