RFI DJG147 Wireless Intercom

This Request for Information (RFI) is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered as an Invitation for Bid, Request for Quotation, Request for Proposal or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services described herein. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of a contractor's submission of responses to this announcement or the Government's use of such information. This request does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated or received by the Government for this RFI. The information provided by contractors may be used by the Army in developing its acquisition strategy, Performance Work Statement and/or Performance Specifications. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI. Background: TACOM in Warren, MI is seeking feedback from industry concerning Vehicular Intercommunications Systems (VIS). The AN/VIC-5 contract (W15P7T-09-D-K204) provides a developmental VIS solution consistent with the VIS-1001 performance specifications. Since the award of the VIC-5 contract, technology has matured and new commercial capabilities have emerged. Purpose: The Government is interested in understanding industry's current capabilities relating to commercially-available VIS solutions that include a wireless capability within an armored vehicle and within 500 meters outside of the vehicle. Instructions: The Government requests respondents provide feedback, comments, and questions regarding commercial VIS solutions with a specific focus on Questions 1 - 19 below: Q1. Using the spreadsheet provided as Appendix A please indicate whether your company provides a commercially available VIS solution (consistent with the definition of "commercial item" contained within the Federal Acquisition Regulation, Part 2). Using the following codes to indicate whether your company's commercially available VIS solution contains the product features indicated in Appendix A: - A = Company currently offers a commercially-available VIS solution containing the product feature indicated. - B = Company is planning to incorporate the product feature indicated in their commercially available VIS solution within the next 18 months. - C = Company's commercially available VIS solution does not contain the product feature indicated and company does not plan to incorporate the product feature indicated within the next 18 months. **- If your company provides more than one commercially-available VIS solution, create a new spreadsheet for each additional commercially-available VIS solution provided by your company. Q2. Please provide the following information pertaining to your commercially-available VIS product: - Extended Data Sheet (including but not limited to Size, Weight, and Power) - Functional Overview of each solution component - Price Points Be as detailed as possible and include price points based on your current commercially-available VIS solution. Q3. What, if any additional product features does your company provide with a commercially-available VIS solution that are not noted in the product features listed in Appendix A? Q4. From an operational context, indicate the perceived value added to the Army for each additional product feature you specified in Q3. Use the spreadsheet provided as Appendix B to provide your response(s). Q5. Would your company provide a Production Level (formerly Level 3) Technical Data Package (TDP) to the Government at no additional cost? If not, what is the additional cost for a Production Level TDP? Q6. Does your company have an established Public-Private Partnership (P3) with a depot or Army Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE)? If so, please describe the nature of your P3 effort. Provide details of any concerns relating to your P3 with TYAD. Q8. Describe the warranty terms for each commercially-available VIS solution provided by your company. Indicate your approach to tracking warranty-supported repair actions. Q9. Describe your process for deploying software maintenance, patches and upgrades for your commercially-available VIS solution(s). Q10. Provide the results of any testing performed for each of your company's commercially-available VIS solutions. - Specify the qualifying laboratory or organization, and if the qualifying organization is the Government, specify the Government Agency that conducted the specific test as well as dates the test was conducted. - Specify compliance with military standards as noted in Appendix A (including, but not limited to, MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461F, and MIL-STD-464A) - Specify whether testing was performed for purposes of production verification or vehicle integration. Q11. Describe the level of compliance with Vehicle Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR) / Electronic Warfare (EW) Interoperability (VICTORY) standards for each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Indicate what VICTORY standard your product currently meets. The current VICTORY standard is 1.6.2. Q12. Describe the level of compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Army (DA) Information Assurance standards for each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Indicate your commercially-available solution's level of compliance with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 or other potential commercial solutions. Q13. Describe the maximum monthly production throughput for each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Q14. Describe the product lead time for each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Q15. Describe your company's approach to program protection and supply chain risk management. Indicate how your company ensures supplier redundancy to avoid single points of failure within the supply chain. Indicate whether any of your products or product components are sourced from a foreign-owned company. Q16. Describe any current or forecasted obsolescence concerns pertaining to your commercially-available VIS solutions. Indicate when each of your commercially-available VIS solutions will no longer be available for purchase. Indicate your company's plans for mitigating risk pertaining to obsolescence concerns (e.g. maintenance plans, next generation solutions) Q17. Indicate compatibility of your commercially-available VIS solutions with currently fielded Army tactical radios. Use the spreadsheet provided as Appendix C to provide your response(s). Add rows to the spreadsheet for Army tactical radios not listed. Q18. Indicate the scope of your commercially-available VIS solutions' reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM). - Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) - Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) - Special test equipment and/or tooling required Q19. Indicate any Army or DoD organizations and corresponding platforms that currently use each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Q20. Describe the supportability and training needed for each of your commercially-available VIS solutions. Responses to this RFI should be submitted by 1600 hours on 31-JAN-2019. Complete responses are to be sent via email to the Contract Specialist, Dan Gibson, at Daniel.J.Gibson43.civ@mail.mil. All material submitted in response to this RFI must be unclassified. Interested parties possessing the capacity to provide commercially-available VIS solutions based on the features outlined within this RFI are requested to provide a response including: Name, telephone number, fax number, street address and e-mail address for Program and Technical points of contact information. If your submission includes responses to Appendix A, Appendix B, and/or Appendix C rename the file "Commercial VIS Response - Company Name"