--Market Survey DEV-2006-03 (15691)

DESCRIPTION OF INTENT: THIS IS A MARKET SURVEY REQUESTING INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING POTENTIAL REQUIREMENT. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation, nor is it a r equest seeking contractors to be placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this survey is voluntary and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this market survey and any follow-on informat ion requests. Data submitted in response to this market survey will not be returned. No solicitation document exists at this time, and calls requesting a solicitation will not be answered. POTENTIAL REQUIREMENT: TARDEC is conducting a market survey to identify companies, partnerships, universities that have studied or are in the process of studying nanoparticles which can provide more efficient and effective coolants and lubricants for military vehicles. The comp anies, partnerships, or universities may be manufacturers of the nanoparticles or solely researching the effects of adding these nanoparticles to common lubricants. RATIONALE: The results of this market survey will be used to refine program planning. RESPONSES DUE: Responses to this Market survey are requested no later than 28 April 2006. RESPONSE FORMAT(S): ELECTRONIC. Electronic responses are preferred and strongly encouraged. It is requested that electronic responses be provided in any of the following format: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. The maximum size of each email messa ge should be no more than three and one-half (3.5) megabytes. You may use multiple email messages. The subject line must include message 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, etc., as well as Title of the Survey and Organization Name. Please submit electronic respons es to Jill Tebbe at contact@example.gov. All interested entities (e.g. companies, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions), regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this request for information. Partnering with other entities to co llaborate and provide the maximum amount of capability for this endeavor is encouraged. Questions prior to full response should be posed to Jill Tebbe at contact@example.gov. A questionnaire for the survey will be posted to PROC-NET (contracting.tacom .army.mil/ssn/sources.htm). GENERAL INFORMATION: The Government appreciates the time and effort taken to respond to this survey. The Government acknowledges its obligations under 18 U.S.C. - 1905 to protect information qualifying as CONFIDENTIAL under this statute. Pursuant to th is statute, the Government is willing to accept any trade secret or confidential restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response to the survey questions and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following: 1. 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Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in t he possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data, 4. Confidential data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the government, shall contain any restrictive legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and at the begin ning of the file itself. Where appropriate for portions only of an electronic file, use the restrictive legends CONFIDENTIAL DATA BEGINS: and CONFIDENTIAL PORTION ENDS. 5. In any reproductions of technical data or any portions thereof subject to asserted restrictions, the government shall also reproduce the asserted restriction legend and any explanatory text. 6. The Government sometimes uses support contractors in evaluating responses. Consequently, responses that contain confidential information may receive only limited or no consideration since the Respondents marking of data as Confidential will preclude disclosure of same outside the Government and therefore will preclude disclosure to these support contractors assisting the evaluation effort.