Sources Sought: Robitic System Sustainment

Amendment One to Sources Sought Notice posted to Beta.SAM on 07 December 2020. SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE - Amendment One I. Description of Intent This notice is to gauge the availability of vendors that are capable and interested in meeting the Government's requirement for a follow-on Repair Maintenance Action (RMA) for depot level repair services of the Extending Mount for the Surveillance Camera Assembly (Part # E2455-3080) and PATCO Lithium Battery (Part # 3875-1600) for the ANDROS F6a and Air Force Medium Size Robots (AFMSR) for the ANDROS HD-2 Robot systems, respectively. Robot Logistic Support Center (RLSC) technicians are currently unable to repair the Extending Mount and Battery in-house due to lack of experience and absence of particular repair equipment. II. General Information: The Government is issuing this amendment to the Sources Sought Notice released on Beta.SAM on 07 December 2020 as a means of conducting market research only to identify parties having interest and resources to support this requirement. The information gained will be used for preliminary planning and to determine the availability of qualified contractors to complete depot level repair services on the ANDROS F6a Robot System's Extending Mount for the Surveillance Camera Assembly and ANDROS HD-2 Robot System's PATCO Lithium Battery. The information received will be used by the Government to facilitate the decision-making process and will not be disclosed outside of the agency. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for costs incurred with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. This notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. Respondents will not be notified of the results regarding the market research survey. If a solicitation is issued subsequent to this notice, it will be posted to Beta.SAM. Remotec, the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of the ANDROS F6a and ANDROS HD-2 Robot Systems, owns the Technical Data Packages (TDPs) for the aforementioned robot systems and parts being serviced. The Government has limited rights to this technical data which was developed exclusively at private expense. Any ensuing contract would be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP), senior technician labor category utilizing nominal components to perform the depot level repair services on the identified parts. The period of performance is anticipated to be up to four years from the date of award. The Government will coordinate with the contractor all RMA actions at least three business days in advance prior to shipping any part to the contractor for a potential RMA effort. The contractor shall ensure that all RMA actions comply in all respects with to the manufacturer's performance requirements for each part number. III. Submission Instructions: All vendors responding to this notice shall provide specific information to include a summary of their company's capabilities. Information to be provided shall include a Capability Statement, which demonstrates the vendor's skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to meet the Government's requirement for RMA depot level repair services of the aforementioned parts and include, but not limited to, a description of corporate experience with similar projects. The vendor shall address how it plans to ensure the RMA level of repair services shall comply with the manufacturer's performance requirements for each of these two parts. The Capability Statement should include: 1. Contact information including: Company Name: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Email Address: DUNS/Cage Code: Website Address: Type of Organization: Business Type(s): [ ] Large Business (LB), [ ] Small Business (SB), [ ] HUBZone (HZ), [ ] Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), [ ] Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), [ ] 8(a) Business Development Program, [ ] Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), [ ] Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB). 2. A statement indicating if your company possesses the capability to meet the entire requirement and if access to the OEM's TDPs are required to complete the requirement. Provide a list of the equipment and experience you have available to perform the depot level repairs on the aforementioned parts. 3. Does your company have experience as a prime contractor performing services of the same or similar type effort(s) (to include size and complexity) within the past five years? If yes, please provide the following information: Contract number(s): Dollar value(s): Point of Contact (POC): POC Email address: POC Phone number: Brief description of your direct support of the effort: Similarity of scope, effort, complexity: 4. Potential sources should only submit the minimum information necessary and shall not exceed 2 pages. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to vendors regarding their submissions. The Government may contact potential sources for additional information as required. 5. Interested parties are encouraged to be registered in the System for Award Management, www.sam.gov prior to responding to this Sources Sought Notice. 6. Interested parties that consider themselves qualified to perform the above listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought Notice no later than 1300 EST 22 February, 2021. 7. Responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall be submitted via email to Gregory M. Fleming at gregory.m.fleming5.civ@mail.mil. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE Issued on 07 December 2020 Description of Intent This notice is to gauge the availability of vendors that are capable and interested in meeting the Government's requirement for a follow on contract for Repair Maintenance Actions (RMA) depot level services on approximately a dozen parts from the Air Force Medium Size Robots (AFMSR), Andros F6A robots, Andros F6A+ robots, Remote Ordnance Neutralization System (RONS) robots, and the FX robots. The Robot Logistic Support Center (RLSC) technicians currently repair all of the parts on the aforementioned robots, however, due to current lack of experience and absence of particular repair equipment there are approximately a dozen parts the RLSC technicians cannot currently repair in-house. General Information: Project Manager Force Projection Robot Logistic Support Center (FP-RLSC) is issuing a Sources Sought Notice as means of conducting market research only to identify parties having interest and resources to support this requirement. The information gained will be used for preliminary planning and to determine the availability of qualified contractors to see if any other means of procuring the Government's requirement for depot level repair services on AFMSR, F6A, F6A+, RONS, FX parts, which the Government cannot complete internally at this time by the RLSC technicians. The information received will be used by the Government to facilitate the decision-making process and will not be disclosed outside of the agency. Information received from respondents will aid in the decision of whether to issue a solicitation as a competitive set-aside for qualified Small Businesses, Vendors with GSA Schedules or whether to issue the requirement as unrestricted full and open competition. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for costs incurred with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. This notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. Respondents will not be notified of the results regarding the market research survey. If a solicitation is issued subsequent to this notice, it will be posted to FedBizOpps. This notice is to determine if there are any other sources outside of Remotec, the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), for the depot repair of parts from the AFMSR, F6A, F6A+, RONS, FX robots. Remotec is the OEM of the aforementioned robots and parts, to include the drawings that they developed and they own the intellectual property. The Government did not fund any portion of the Technical Data Package (TDP); therefore, it only has limited rights to the technical data. Any ensuing contract would be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) senior technician labor category utilizing nominal components to perform the depot level repair on the identified part. The period of performance is anticipated to be three years from the date of award. The Government will coordinate with the contractor all RMA actions at least three business days in advance prior to shipping any part to the contractor for a potential RMA effort. The contractor shall ensure that all RMA actions comply in all respects with to the manufacturer's performance requirements for each part number. Submission Instructions: All responding to this notice shall provide specific information to include a summary of their company's capabilities. Information to be provided shall include a Capability Statement, which demonstrates the skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to meet the Government's requirement for RMA depot level repair services of parts from the AFMSR, F6A+, F6A, RONS, FX robots. Statements should address the contractor ability to repair what the Government cannot complete internally by the RLSC technicians due to current lack of experience and particular repair of equipment. The contractor shall address how it plans to ensure the RMA level of repair services shall comply in all respects with the manufacturer's performance requirements for each robot part. The contractor response should list the firm's specific skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities to complete these requirements, including, but not limited to a description of corporate experience with similar projects. The Capability Statement should include: Contact information including: Company Name: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Email Address: DUNS/Cage Code: Website Address: Type of Organization: Business Type(s): [ ] Large Business (LB), [ ] Small Business (SB), [ ] HUBZone (HZ), [ ] Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), [ ] Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), [ ] 8(a) Business Development Program, [ ] Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), [ ] Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB). A statement indicating if your company possesses the capability to meet the entire requirements. Provide a table to list the equipment and experience you have available to perform any depot level repairs on any part of the aforementioned robots. Does your company have experience as a prime contractor performing services of the same or similar type effort(s) (to include size and complexity) within the past five years? If yes, please provide the following information: Contract number(s): Dollar value(s): Point of Contact (POC): POC Email address: POC Phone number: Brief description of your direct support of the effort: Similarity of scope, effort, complexity: Potential sources should only submit the minimum information necessary and shall not exceed 2 pages. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions. The Government may contact potential sources for additional information as required. Interested parties are encouraged to be registered in the System for Award Management, www.sam.gov prior to responding to this Sources Sought Notice. Interested parties that consider themselves qualified to perform the above listed services are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought no later than 1300 EST 6 January, 2021. Responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall be submitted via email to Gregory M. Fleming at gregory.m.fleming5.civ@mail.mil.