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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 17, 2012 FBO #4011
MODIFICATION

10 -- Request for Information (RFI), Modernized Commodity Fuze

Notice Date

11/15/2012
 

Notice Type

Modification/Amendment
 

NAICS

332993 — Ammunition (except Small Arms) Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AAC - Air Armament Center, AAC/PK, 205 West D Avenue, Suite 433, Eglin AFB, Florida, 32542-6864, United States
 

ZIP Code

32542-6864
 

Solicitation Number

EBDZ-MCF-001
 

Archive Date

11/3/2012
 

Point of Contact

Ronald Foskey, Phone: (850)883-1699
 

E-Mail Address

ronald.foskey@eglin.af.mil
(ronald.foskey@eglin.af.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

PRE-SOLICITATION NOTICE EBDZ-MCF-001, AMENDMENT 02 TO THE RFI ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 18 SEPTEMBER 2012 ADDITIONAL MCF QUESTIONS FOR INDUSTRY Responses due NLT 3 December 2012 to Mr. Ronald Foskey at ronald.foskey@eglin.af.mil. 1. The government's need for a modernized fuze is based on an assumption that the industrial supplier base will not be able to provide affordable, high quality components for the current Electro-mechanical design over the long-term (20+ years). What is your perspective on this assumption? 2. General Industry consensus is there would be a substantial cost increase if the captive carry requirement is changed from 100 external/200 internal to 900 hours. What does industry consider a reasonable captive carriage hour requirement that optimizes cost/schedule impact? Does the fuze or the FZU design drive the extended captive carriage costs/schedule, or both equally? 3. If the government deleted the long function delay time requirement, explain to what extent that would lower your development and production costs? 4. If the government eliminated the FFCS requirement, how would that impact your projected cost and schedule for developing the fuze? 5. Considering the need for affordability, at what quantity (or quantities) would sharp increases in unit price begin to occur? Why? What strategies are there to lessen these increases? 6. As part of the acquisition strategy, the government is considering options to include testing of the performance of prototype fuze systems as part of the source selection process. This could either be part of the basic proposal evaluation, or it could involve a rolling down select to 2-3 suppliers for a 12-18 month demonstration effort to a final downselect. Key evaluations points will be current FMU-152A/B specification performance with hardened target capability and multi-layer survivability. How long would it take you to provide 10 test items for evaluation? What would be the ROM cost for those test items? 7. What are your thoughts on industrial base impacts of a joint modernization program with the Navy; versus two separate programs, Air Force and Navy? THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS RFI OR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AAC/EBDZ-MCF-001/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: AAC/EBDZ(K), 205 W D Avenue STE 545, Eglin AFB, Florida, 32542, United States

Zip Code: 32542
 

Record

SN02931758-W 20121117/121115235036-a19ae025e85cfeac93e5b1c32de240bb (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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