Sources Sought (Market Research)
THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. REQUEST FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. This Sources Sought Synopsis is in support of Market Research being conducted by the United States Air Force to identify potential sources and if this effort can be competitive or a Small Business Set-Aside.
The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 336413 which has a corresponding Size Standard of 1,000 employees. The Government will use this information to determine the best acquisition strategy for this procurement. The Government is interested in all Small Businesses, Small Disadvantaged Businesses 8(a)s, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, Hubzone Businesses, and Women-Owned Small Businesses.
The government requests that interested parties respond to this notice if applicable and identify your small business status to the identified NAICS code. Additionally, please provide any anticipated teaming arrangements, along with a description of similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers for the past three years. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners.
This Sources Sought is to notify companies that the U. S. Air Force is seeking sources for the Potential sources shall be capable of furnishing all labor, materials, facilities and equipment required to accomplish the new manufacture of the item(s) listed below. Generally, this entails the procurement/manufacture of component parts, inspection, testing, preservation/packaging, and shipping. The unit prices will be established at the time of a contract award for the item(s) listed below.
Additionally, the source may be required to possess any necessary license agreements with the Original Equipment Manufacturer, (OEM) to obtain rights to all required data, including military specific modifications.
The contractor may be responsible for recurring and nonrecurring engineering services associated with becoming a qualified source. Contractor may be responsible for supply chain management, logistics, forecasting of parts, long-lead parts procurement, reparable forecasting, obsolescence issues and delivery of serviceable assets.
The specific requirement for this effort is found the table below.
Production Information:
P/N NSN Noun Buy Qty PR #
520-12991-6 1560-01-522-1172 Tank, Fuel, Aircraft 10 ea (POS QTY) FD20301800268
042575Application: B-52
For Commodities Public Sales T.O. Manual request orders, please send an email attaching a Full Justification Letter on your companies letterhead that includes your companies complete address along with the Sources Sought Synopsis number, Purpose of Request, Intent of Use and an explanation on how furnishing your company with the Technical Order will benefit the USAF. Please also attach your signed DD2345 along with your request and email them to 420scms.to.sales@us.af.mil for processing. If it is a TO(s) that we can assist you with, we will continue processing and you will receive a cost letter from us. If it is not one we can assist you with due to it being out of another AFB, under a non-commodities TO Manager, or just not in our system; we will let you know that as well.
Once reviewing and processing have been completed, and payment has been received and cleared through our Accounting Department, the TO Manual is loaded on FedBizOpps for your company's Data Custodian to access, therefore your company will need to be registered on FedBizOpps.
Submit information requested above via email to 424.SCMS.AFMC.RFI.Responses@us.af.mil. Technical questions regarding this sources sought may also be submitted to this email address. In the subject line of the e-mail include "Weapon System" and the NSN(s). Phone calls will not be accepted.
POC for Source Approval Requests (SARs) is Laurel Chambers, AFSC/SB, 405-739-7243, laurel.chambers@us.af.mil.
The information in this notice is based on current information available to date. This information is subject to change and is not binding to the Government. Any updated information will be provided in future announcements, if applicable and posted electronically on the Federal Business Opportunities website at www.fbo.gov. Contractors not responding to this Sources Sought will not be precluded from participation in any future solicitation, if issued.
Disclaimer:
This SSS is issued solely for informational and planning purposes. It does not constitute a solicitation (Request for Proposal or Request for Quotations) or a promise to issue a solicitation in the future release.
424.SCMS.AFMC.RFI.Responses 424.SCMS.AFMC.RFI.Responses, Email 424.SCMS.AFMC.RFI.Responses@us.af.mil
