Test Program Set (TPS) Integration and Major Automated Test Equipment (ATE) Support

The U.S. Army Contracting Command - New Jersey is issuing this Sources Sought Notice on behalf of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Armaments Center (AC) Automated Test Systems Division. The U.S. Army is conducting a Market Survey to identify Contractors capable of developing, modifying, maintaining and producing Department of Defense (DoD) compliant Automated Test Equipment (ATE) and developing, maintaining, integrating and re-hosting Test Program Sets (TPSs) to modern DoD compliant ATE. This effort requires that the Contractor understand and have extensive experience with DoD and Army Automated Test System (ATS) and TPS standards, policies and procedures, and DoD and Army TPS development processes and best practices. This effort will also require the Contractor to have extensive knowledge and experience with major off platform test equipment development, maintenance, and production, to include but not limited to: the Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS)/Versatile Depot Automated Test Station (VDATS)/Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS)/Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System (RTCASS)/ Electronic Consolidated Automated Support System (ECASS), Third Echelon Test Set (TETS) and Virtual Instrument Portable Equipment Repair Tester (VIPER/T). The Contractor will be required to analyze current ATE platforms and implement maintenance and product improvement programs. The Contractor is required to possess an extensive knowledge of DoD and Army weapon systems, Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), Shop Replaceable Units (SRUs), their functionality and how to develop TPSs to support them from factory to field. Their responsibility will be to analyze electronic assemblies, develop test strategies and supporting documentation, develop TPS hardware and software, integrate end products into ATE platforms, and fully port and integrate legacy TPSs and variants to modern ATE platforms with equal to or better than performance of existing TPSs. The Contractor is required to possess an extensive knowledge in development and maintaining embedded diagnostics, AT System Testing and required Test Program Hardware (TPH) and software on DoD and Army weapon systems. The Contractor must have experience with designing and producing limited quantities of TPH to include but not limited to: cables, interface boxes, circuit cards and Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs). The Contractor must have experience in Net Centric requirements including Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) and Smart Test Program Sets (TPSs). This effort may be performed at either the Contractor's facility or on site at Picatinny Arsenal or another Government location. The Contractor must demonstrate expertise with legacy and modern TPS development languages to include but not limited to: ATLAS, LabView, Lab Windows C for Virtual Instrumentation (CVI), Test Stand, Test Studio, IRWindows, C, C++, Common Operator Test Environment (COTE) and Visual Basic. The Government may provide technical data or Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to support this effort based on the current availability. The Contractor shall possess experience in the production of a major piece of DoD compliant ATE hardware. This Sources Sought announcement is requested for informational purposes only. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP), Invitation for Bid (IFB), or Request for Quotation (RFQ). No solicitation document exists. The submission of this information is for planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to procure these items, nor does the Army intend to award on the basis of this sources sought/market survey or otherwise pay for the information requested. Interested parties are invited to indicate their interest by providing a document outlining their capabilities based upon the above description. All information is to be submitted at no cost or obligation to the Government and should be sent within fifteen (15) calendar days of this announcement via email to Ms. Trisha Fitton, Contracting Officer, trisha.a.fitton.civ@mail.mil and Mr. Donald Gurry, Contract Specialist, donald.h.gurry.civ@mail.mil. This is a Market Survey for information purposes only, and not a pre-solicitation notice, nor a request for proposals. If a formal requirement is generated at a later date, a pre-solicitation notice will be published.