Mitigation of Large Scale Obsolescence of MIL-PRF-19500 certified components

The Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), McClellan, CA is issuing this Sources Sought Notice to find potential sources to provide sources for Mitigating Obsolescence of MIL-PRF-19500 Certified Devices Industry responses to this Notice will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, and will provide the Government information about the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the requirement. Information received in response to this Notice will also help the Government determine: Whether a small business set-aside is possible. All businesses are invited to respond to this Notice. This Notice is relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 334413, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing. The Small Business size standard for NAICS 334413 is 1,250 employees. The Product Service Code (PSC) is R425, Support- Professional: Engineering/Technical. The vendor shall be able to provide a solution to mitigate current obsolescence issues and/or mitigate risk to future obsolescence of one or more MIL-PRF-19500 qualified components. Mitigation could be addressing a supply chain issue, such as, qualifying a - pin for pin drop in replacement component, technology refresh of the components, and other potential solutions. Responses & Capability Statement: Vendors having the ability to provide the requirements are encouraged to submit a statement, not to exceed three (3) pages, documenting their capabilities of meeting all of the requirements listed above, to include facilities requirements for the operation of the source, recent corporate experience in fulfilling this type of requirement, and, Company name and address, to include email address(s) and URL(s), Point of Contact (POC) name, POC telephone number and email address, Organizational Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code, Organizational Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number, Business size status for the applicable NAICS code, Ability to provide manufacturing sustainment, engineering support or both Statement of Objective (SOO) Comments: DMEA is interested in hearing industry comments on the potential structure of this SOO. Any organization responding to this Notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Interested vendors are instructed to provide only the data requested in this Notice. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information or provide feedback to respondents with respect to information submitted. After reviewing responses received, a synopsis, a pre-solicitation notice or solicitation may be published to the Government Point of Entry (GPE), Federal Business Opportunities website. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in responses. The Government reserves the right to use any technical information in any resultant solicitation. Disclaimers and Important Notes: This Notice is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, implied or otherwise, to issue a solicitation or award a contract. This is not a request for quote (RFQ) or a request for proposal (RFP), and responses will not be considered as proposals or quotes. The Government will not pay for any cost incurred in responding to this Notice. Any information submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought synopsis is voluntary. The information submitted in response to this Notice will not be utilized to determine vendor standing in any future or potential RFP or RFQ, whether a vendor is qualified to submit an RFQ or RFP for any future requirement, or how well respondents can perform a requirement, which can only be evaluated in response to a solicitation. Vendors will not receive formal notification or feedback on any information submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government reserves the right to reject or disregard, in whole or in part, any response to this Notice. Any future submissions in response to a solicitation to the GPE will be evaluated independent of any information submitted in response to this Notice. Responses to this Sources Sought will not be returned. Not responding to this sources sought does not preclude participation in any future and potential solicitation. The Government will not provide potential vendors information on solicitations issued on the GPE based on this Sources Sought Notice. Submission deadline date is 14 June 2023 at 1:00PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Send electronic responses to this notice to: contact@example.gov.