SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Market Survey - Similar Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Capabilities
- Notice Date
- 5/4/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- TACOM Contracting Center (TACOM-CC), ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road, Warren, MI 48397-5000
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- RFI-JLTV-0001
- Response Due
- 5/18/2011
- Archive Date
- 7/17/2011
- Point of Contact
- Steve Hepner, 586-282-3502
- E-Mail Address
-
TACOM Contracting Center (TACOM-CC)
(steve.hepner@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Market Survey - Similar Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Capabilities Background, JLTV Program. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) Program is a Family of Vehicles (FoV) leveraging technologies developed in the commercial sector and within the Department of Defense (DoD) to meet existing and emerging military capabilities. The JLTV FoV is a new start materiel solution intended to fill these capability gaps. JLTV has been approved at Milestone A and is currently reaching the end of the Technology Development Phase. It is anticipated that the JLTV Program will be designated by the Milestone Decision Authority as an ACAT-1D, Major Defense Acquisition Program. Current DRAFT JLTV Program Description. The JLTV program is developing two mission role variants (MRVs) to regain transportability and restore a balance between protection, payload, and performance. The MRVs - a four (4) passenger Combat Tactical Vehicle (CTV) and a two (2) passenger Combat Support Vehicle (CSV) - will enhance light tactical mobility for combat, combat support, combat service support forces by providing Protection, through Scalable armor to provide mission flexibility while protecting the force; Sustainment, through reliable, maintainable, component commonality, onboard and exportable power, and reduced fuel consumption; Networking, through connectivity for improved Battlespace Awareness (BA) and responsive, well-integrated Command and Control (C2) for embarked forces; Transportability, through transport capable by a range of lift assets, including air, rail, and sea modes; and Mobility through chassis, suspension and drive train innovations. In addition, the JLTV support tactical mobility for ground combat forces, small unit task execution for combat, combat support and combat service support missions during land, access and access denial, littoral, irregular, stability, Airborne, and Air Assault operations. This capability provides protected, sustained, networked tactical mobility for small ground combat units (and crew-served weapons) in the performance of combat patrols, raids, conventional assaults, long-range reconnaissance, convoy escorts and other combat related tasks. It also supports direct fire support weapons such as anti-tank and heavy automatic weapons. The latest emerging draft requirements for the JLTV program are located on this website: http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/majorsys/jltv_emd/jltv_emd.htm JLTV Market Research Information Requested. The JLTV Program Office seeks to obtain vehicle system information and other supporting information from Industry in an effort to identify and conduct analysis on vehicles with capabilities similar to the JLTV. The analysis will aim to compare capabilities, measures of effectiveness, cost, schedule, concepts of operations, and overall risk. The JLTV Program Office is aware of a number of programs currently in development that are making strides in protection, mobility, and weight. The intent of this Market Survey is to receive the most recent, fact-based information related to programs that may be considered similar to, or potential candidates for, a JLTV family of vehicles. This information will assist the JLTV Program Office in developing its acquisition and procurement strategy for the JLTV Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Phase. To allow JLTV to make an informed assessment of current industry capabilities, information is needed in the following categories outlined below. The reference attachments should be completed to the best extent possible. This should not preclude providing additional information thought to add benefit that would allow the JLTV Program Office better understand what industry is currently able to provide. Any additional information provided in response to this Market Survey will also be taken into consideration. Cost Analysis Information. (Reference Attachment A) Responses are requested in four cost related areas to allow the market research team to make informed evaluations of achievable cost ranges for a full vehicle system. This information will be used to estimate realistic base vehicle and sustainment cost targets. Mobility Analysis Data. (Reference Attachment B) Responses are requested to describe the data which is required to build an NRMM (NATO Reference Mobility Model) model for the purposes of estimating on-road and off-road mobility performance and making comparisons to the current JLTV requirements. Any additional information (ie. general description, vehicle overview, pictures, test or simulation results) related to achievable performance will also be considered. Protection Data. Unclassified responses are requested to describe the key features of the cab and vehicle design. Responses should address, but not be limited to, material selection (use of metallic, ceramics, composites), crew injury assessments, weight class, design maturity, and whether the survivability information being provided is for a hull or full vehicle system design. Unclassified information that describes the manufacturing processes or techniques for providing protection will allow the market research team to evaluate the state-of-the-art from industry. DO NOT SUBMIT ANY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. CLASSIFIED information should not be provided as part of the response to this Market Survey, but may be requested at a later date. DISCLAIMER: Any information submitted in response to this Market Survey is for planning purposes and shall not be construed as a Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire follow-on acquisition. The Government in no way intends to award a contract on the basis of this Market Survey or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Market Survey and Government use of such information. Any potential JLTV EMD Request for Proposal (RFP) will be an independent effort and. NO FORMAL RFP DOCUMENT EXISTS AT THIS TIME. The Government recognizes that proprietary data may be part of this effort. If included, please clearly mark such restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. Response Instructions. Email Instructions: UNCLASSIFIED non-FOUO responses to this Market Survey questionnaire can be sent via email to: Mr. Steve Hepner at steve.hepner@us.army.mil, with a subject header "JLTV Market Survey Response". Please note: DO NOT EMAIL FOUO information. FOUO information must be mailed to the address below. Acceptable format for e-mail file attachments are Adobe and Microsoft Office products only. All other formats must be mailed to the address below. Please limit any single e-mail response to 3MB or less. If any appropriate attachments are too large for e-mail, please mail to the address below. Mailing Address (Hardcopy or Disc format acceptable): US Army Contracting Command - Warren 6501 E. Eleven Mile Road Mail Stop 416 Attn: Mr. Steve Hepner Warren, MI 48397-5000 Replies to the attached questionnaire must be received by COB 18 May 2011.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/8492be00385002940c340ca6c4c8c399)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Army Contracting Command - Warren ATTN: AMSTA-AQ-AMB, E Eleven Mile Road Warren MI
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Zip Code: 48397-5000
- Record
- SN02440375-W 20110506/110504235736-8492be00385002940c340ca6c4c8c399 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |