R--SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: LOGISTICS SUPPORT

This announcement serves as a Sources Sought (SS) synopsis issued for the purpose of market research in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. This SS is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation nor is this notice a request for quotation. DO NOT submit a quote or proposal in response to this synopsis. The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal seeks potential business sources to perform a five (5) year contract for technical, engineering, and logistics services and provide 100 percent of parts to support the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) in the overhaul, recapitalization, conversion, and repair activities for the entire T700 series turbine engines, modules, and identified components; specifically the T700-GE-700, 701, 701C, 701D, 401, and 401C. This is a Critical Safety Item requirement. CCAD is the center for technical excellence in repairing, overhauling, testing, and modernizing the Army's fleet of rotary wing aircraft. The depot also provides worldwide on-site maintenance services and aircraft crash analysis. This effort will be a performance-based, fully integrated effort that includes the technical and engineering support and the materiel integration function necessary to support CCAD in overhauling, repairing, testing, and modernizing the Army's fleet of rotary wing aircrafts. The contractor must be able to provide the full range of services and parts in order to meet the Government's requirement. The contractor must provide technology insertion, technology refreshment/modernization of components, obsolescence management, spare parts and test cell upgrades and operational proficiency in support of reliability improvements for the engines. The contractor must have the background design knowledge, experience, and data necessary to support technical, engineering, materiel, and modernization capability as well as a ready source of engineering support and a qualified pool of vendors to supply parts in compliance with the original design intent. The contractor must provide AMCOM's depot maintenance engineering with technical and engineering assistance based on OEM's product design and logistics database and develop work scope and process improvement recommendations in support of the overhaul and repair functions at CCAD. The contractor must assist and advise CCAD in establishing commercial best practices in the areas of production planning, production control, materials management and process engineering. The contractor must develop overhaul and workstations kits to streamline CCAD component production and ensure availability of all spare parts required in overhaul. The contractor must provide spare parts and logistical support functions in inventory management of spare parts associated with the T55 engine and components. The previous acquisitions for this action were awarded as sole source to General Electric Company, GE-Aviation, 1 Neuman Way, Cincinnati, OH, who is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the T700 series of engines. Neither complete nor adequate data was available to support full and open competition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541614. The Federal Supply Class Service Code is R706. Firms responding to this announcement must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and should include company name, cage code, point of contact, address, business status and indicate any intellectual property rights issues pursuant to your product. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for this requirement. All responsible sources may submit a response to this announcement by May 18, 2016. Oral communications in response to this notice are not acceptable. Point of contact is Cynthia Hubbard, contact@example.gov or US Army Contracting Command-Redstone, Building 5303, 2nd Floor, Martin Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000. The secondary point of contact is Norman C. Young, contact@example.gov or US Army Contracting Command-Redstone, Building 5303, 2nd Floor, Martin Road, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000.