84 -- Advanced Bomb Suit

The Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia intends to negotiate a Sole Source contract for the Advance Bomb Suit and Helmet System currently in use by the U.S. Army. The requirement is to purchase sustainment quantities for the Advanced Bomb Suit, model EOD-8, and EOD-8 Helmet System, manufactured by Med-Eng Systems, Inc. of Canada. The quantities to be procured are 20 each EOD-8 Bomb Suit and 14 each EOD-8 helmet System. The Med-Eng EOD-8 Bomb Suit is a proven technology which is currently in use by the Army. It is necessary to continue to procure the EOD-8 Bomb Suit and EOD-8 Helmet System from Med-Eng Systems in order to ensure compatibility with currently fielded equipment including communications systems and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical protection capabilities. It is believed that no alternative commercial off the shelf bomb suits possess the required overall design and integration of components, ballistics, blast, impact protection, and features necessary to meet the Operation Requirements Document (ORD). The Advanced Bomb Suit is a proprietary, unique, and innovative system, and is the only Explosive Ordnance Disposal suit system available that adequately meets the ORD requirements. This acquisition will be sole source to Med-Eng Systems Inc. Drawings are not available. No request for proposal is available for competitive bidding; however, interested parties may submit a statement of capability for satisfying the requirement, to include descriptive literature, within 15 days of this announcement to the contact person listed below.