58--Driver's Vision Enhancer (DVE) B-Kit - This notice is to amend the previous notification published on 10 June 2003 under solicitation DAAB07-03-R-J202 for the same item.

NA The US Army CECOM, Project Manager Night Vision/Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition, Fort Belvoir, VA, is issuing a sources sought for Driver's Vision Enhancers (DVE) B-Kits. The Department of Defense has placed an increasing priority on e xpanding the service's ability to operate vehicles more effectively during night and obscured battlefield conditions. The DVE family of devices improves the vehicle driver's performance envelope, respectively, over currently fielded systems. The DVE is an infrared-imaging driver's device for combat vehicles (CV) and tactical-wheeled vehicles (TWV) that is designed to enhance vehicle maneuverability during daylight, darkness, adverse weather, and dirty battlefield conditions. The DVE is comprised of an A-Kit (vehicle unique: brackets, wiring, etc.) and a B-Kit (sensor and display package). The purpose of this program is to procure DVE B-Kits. The DVE B-Kit consists of an uncooled, long-wave, thermal-imaging sensor and flat-panel display package. The thermal-i maging sensor can be one of two configurations: a TWV configuration and a CV configuration. The flat-panel display package contains the electronic operational controls for the DVE system. The DVE A-kits will be furnished by the Government and integrated by the B-Kit contractors for system-level qualification testing. The DVE B-Kits must meet all the requirements set forth in the statement of work, the interface control document, and the applicable performance specification (MIL-PRF-49256B(CR)). The Governme nt's intent is to make two awards for this competitive acquisition on a 60/40 split basis. Award(s) will be firm-fixed-price, three (3) year, multi-year contracts, each with a one (1) year option for a total period of four (4) years (performing from FY04 t o FY07). The 60-percent award will be made to the best overall proposal that is determined to be most beneficial to the government. The 40-percent award will be made to the second best overall proposal. The Government reserves the right to award a single c ontract for the total requirements of the solicitation in the event that only one conforming offer is received. Anticipated total quantities for this contractual effort are as follows: TWV base: 1934, options 11,425; CV base: 600, options 5229. The option quantities are spread through the contract years. Some options are provided for the purposes of foreign military sales (FMS) requirements. The Government's intent is to procure the DVE A-Kits through a separate contract action. Information pertaining to th e A-Kit acquisition is available through separate entry on the Business Opportunity Page (refer to solicitation W15P7T-04-R-J201). See also numbered note 26.