Sources Sought

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE I. Description of Intent: This notice is to gauge the availability of vendors that are capable and interested in meeting the Government's additional requirement to increase the maximum ceiling on IDIQ contract number W56HZV-19-D-0031. An unexpected requirement consumed a majority of the awarded ceiling, therefore the ceiling is being replenished. The awarded contract and the additional ceiling is for multiple robot variants and every available part to allow the Government to sustain, maintain, reset and recap each robotic platform listed below. The Robot Logistic Support Center (RLSC) overall requirement for robots include 310 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV), 110 First Look, multiple variants of the 510 PackBot, and 710 Kobra. The IDIQ celling increase requirement is in support all of the Department of Defense (DoD) services, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and numerous other customers. II. General Information: RLSC is issuing a Sources Sought Notice as a means of conducting market research only to identify parties having an interest and the resources to support this requirement. The information gained will be used for preliminary planning and to determine the availability of qualified contractors to provide these robotic systems and parts. The information received will be used by the Government to facilitate the decision-making process and if a solicitation is issued subsequent to this notice. The Government assumes no financial responsibility for cost 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 sources sought. Any subsequent award may be a modification to the current IDIQ as a Firm-Fixed Price with a period of performance of five years from the date of the original award. All variants of robots, every part associated with each variant to complete all sustainment, maintenance, reset and recap actions are currently incorporated into the contract as a Master Parts List (MPL). Submission Instructions: All responding to this notice shall provide specific information to include a summary of its company's capabilities. Information to be provided shall include a Capability Statement which demonstrates the skills, experience, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to perform the Government's requirement to provide all associated parts for the RLSC to be able to sustain, maintain, reset, and recap each listed robotic platform, as well as the ability to provide the FMS training classes. Statements should address the contractor ability to obtain the relevant MPL. The contractor shall address how it plans to ensure that the parts and all robotic platforms will comply in all respects with the manufacturer's performance requirements for each part number and its plan for communicating with the Government regarding any required updating of the MPL as needed for part numbers or nomenclatures to ensure a complete Bill of Material (BOM). 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: 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 provide the entire range of parts/services called for in this requirement. Does your company have an authorized distributor agreement? Does your company have the ability to provide any, some, or all of the parts/services of this requirement? Provide a table to list each part/service you are capable of providing. 3. Does your company have experience as a prime contractor providing the parts and 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 ten pages. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding its 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 requirements are invited to submit a response to this Sources Sought no later than 1500 18 June 2019. 7. Responses to this Sources Sought Notice shall be submitted via email to Gregory Fleming, gregory.m.fleming5.civ@mail.mil.