SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- RUGGED FLEXIBLE WATERPROOF DISPLAY FOR HEAT STRAIN INDICATION
- Notice Date
- 2/18/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- RDECOM Contracting Center - Natick R&D (RDECOM-CC), ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street, Natick, MA 01760-5011
- ZIP Code
- 01760-5011
- Solicitation Number
- W911QYW81NLC0001
- Response Due
- 3/31/2010
- Archive Date
- 5/30/2010
- Point of Contact
- Jonathan Lehmann, 508-233-4124
- E-Mail Address
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RDECOM Contracting Center - Natick R&D (RDECOM-CC)
(jonathan.lehmann@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: US ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE RUGGED FLEXIBLE WATERPROOF DISPLAY FOR HEAT STRAIN INDICATION BACKGROUND Warfighters operate with uniquely high levels of physiological strain, especially thermal-work strain. The objective of this Request for Information is to determine the availability of low power, rugged flexible display technologies suitable for integration into an existing chest-strap mounted personal physiologic/thermal strain monitoring system. This type of integrated system will enable Warfighters to more effectively manage thermal-work strain during a variety of strenuous training missions, some of which involve wearing encapsulating protective clothing ensembles. DESCRIPTION The US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, USARIEM, seeks to identify flexible display technologies suitable for integration into a Warfighter-worn physiologic/thermal strain monitoring system. The initial system would consist of a COTS medical grade chest-mounted physiologic monitor, i.e. Hidalgo Equivital, Zephyr Bio-Harness, wirelessly linked to a small rugged waterproof and flexible display device. The display would provide an index of the wearer's current physiologic strain and a trend indicator for the strain levels. This display is envisioned to be primarily worn as a gauntlet-style device, although it may also be utilized as a patch or tag clipped to the uniform. Initial devices will link to the chest-mounted system via an industry-standard Bluetooth link. Follow-on devices will have a low-signature inductively coupled link to the chest strap. Other desired features: 1) sunlight readable; 2) monochrome or grayscale (4-8 levels); 3) capable of displaying simple graphics; 4) flexible enough to conform to a Warfighter's forearm; 5) rugged; 6) waterproof; 7) small: reference size: 35 mm x 55 mm x 4mm. A leader/medic variant may also be developed with a reference size of 55mm x85 mm x 4mm; 8) low power: capable of supporting mission durations of days to weeks without the necessity of being re-charged; 9) at end of the display's useful life, all materials used must be capable of being fully and easily recycled. A relatively slow display response time (e.g. 2 seconds) is acceptable. CANDIDATES To respond to this RFI, interested parties are required to submit the following to enable the Government to effectively evaluate the proposed technology: 1.Reference design, including display area and overall device size and weight 2.Display characteristics to include update rate, size (range) of characters, pixels if appropriate, icons and any graphics capabilities 3.Proposed method of associating the display with the chest-strap Bluetooth host 4.Estimates of shelf life, working life, power consumption 5.Materials list 6.Estimated costs and time to develop a working prototype display, including the costs and availabilities of the base technologies proposed 7.Estimated unit costs of the initial Bluetooth-based device. The focus of this RFI is solely on display technologies, not on the development of a physiological monitor. Submissions that include development of a physiologic monitoring capability will not be considered. All materials are due by COB 31 March, 2010 at USARIEM. All information and material submitted in response to this RFI that are marked as proprietary will be handled accordingly. Responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Any information or material submitted will not be returned, and no payment will be made by the government for such information or material. Preferred submission format is Adobe's Portable Document Format, PDF. CONTACT: Please submit responses to this notice to Mr. Stephen Mullen, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, MCMR-EMB, Kansas St., Natick, MA, 01760. THIS NOTICE IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. No solicitation document exists. POC for this request is Mr. Stephen Mullen, e-mail: stephen.mullen@us.army.mil
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- Place of Performance
- Address: RDECOM Contracting Center - Natick R&D (RDECOM-CC) ATTN: AMSRD-ACC-N, Natick Contracting Division (R and BaseOPS), Building 1, Kansas Street Natick MA
- Zip Code: 01760-5011
- Zip Code: 01760-5011
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