DESCRIPTION OF INTENT
The Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS), Project Manager Abrams is conducting a market survey to collect written information from industry to determine current market manufacturing capability to produce future Abrams M1E3 Tank. This will be accomplished by the assembly and installation of legacy components and the production, procurement and installation of component kits. In addition to the Abrams Tank component procurement and vehicle assembly, we require the installation, verification and test of newly developed technologies.
Responding companies must provide evidence of their proven abilities to produce tracked ground combat vehicles.
MARKET SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE
1) Describe your experience with production of Line Replacement Modules (LRMs), electronic boxes, display assemblies, and power distribution components.
2) Describe your experience integrating, installing and verifying functionality of communication systems hardware and battle command systems in ground combat vehicles. Please address the platform and complexity of the effort.
3) Describe your process and experience with Configuration Management with regards to ground combat vehicles. Please include how it addresses Engineering Change Proposals, Waivers, Request for variances, contract modifications and the ability to track vehicle configuration by vehicle serial number.
4) Describe your experience with installation and verification of predictive logistics hardware and software management (i.e. Diagnostics/Predictive Maintenance).
5) Describe your experience of integrating, installing and verifying the performance of fire control systems for ground combat vehicles? Please provide specific examples of your experience related to primary sights, secondary sights, direct fire weapons, turret stabilization, weapon stabilization, laser technologies, ammunition handling systems, fire control software, and electronic control boxes. Has your company developed any unique test equipment to complete the installation and checkout of the fire control hardware (to include testing sights, stabilization requirements, and ammunition handling systems)?
6) Please identify if you have a facility clearance and what level of classification you can process at your contract facility. This includes your manufacturing site and program management sites if they are not at the same physical address. Describe how your company handles Classified, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), and Special Access Program (SAP) data and hardware. Response must include program title, contract number, facilities, materials, equipment, and personnel. Do not submit classified data in your response.
7) Describe your experience building and test a ground combat tracked vehicle to the prime item specification and TDP. Include the weight class, quantity of systems and timeframes for which your experience applies. Include if the vehicles were ever fielded.
8) Describe your facilities, tools and equipment that you use to build the system(s) referenced in question number 7 above. Please include a list of equipment names, model information and descriptions; all automated or robotic capabilities; small component and vehicle painting capabilities; testing and verification capabilities for the automotive requirements, fire control (primary sights, secondary sights, direct fire weapons, turret stabilization, weapon stabilization, ammunition handling system, laser technologies) NBC systems, and other electronic systems; facilities for storage of completed vehicles; and shipping/receiving of structures and/or completed vehicles.
9) If you were to manufacture the Abrams M1E3 vehicles, please describe your company's ability to adapt existing facilities, tools, equipment, processes, or producing of hardware parts kits etc. for this purpose. Please include timelines and milestones
10) If your existing production lines will not be used to build the Abrams M1E3 vehicles, please specify where and in what facility (new construction, sub-contractor facility, etc.) they would be made. Include descriptions of the facilities, tools and equipment that will be used. Please include timeline and milestones.
11) Describe your experience with powertrain Dyno Labs, do you have this capability within your own facility or is this something you would outsource?
12) Describe your experience integrating, installing and testing active protection systems onto heavy combat platforms. Response should indicate if design was ever fielded into a combat vehicle(s).
13) Describe your timeline on when you would be able to produce (DD250 off the production line) a completed Abrams M1E3 vehicle from contract award. Include potential contract award dates for overall production contract, long lead material time frames, facilities prep, workforce hiring/training, etc.
14) Describe the skill set of the workforce that would be used to perform the Abrams M1E3 vehicles work; including technical, management and labor.
15) If you were to manufacture the Abrams M1E3 vehicles, describe how you would develop and qualify your manufacturing processes and build checklists and process sheets for the vehicles to be produced against. Please include if these instructions would be electronic or hard copy provided to the assembly line workers. Please include timeline and milestones.
16) Describe your manufacturing engineering capability in producing ground combat tracked vehicles, including subcomponents.
17) Describe your supply chain management system and experience in parts procurement for ground combat tracked vehicles. Describe your process to qualify new suppliers. Describe your process to assist suppliers who are struggling with on-time component delivery or product conformance. Describe your process on how and why new suppliers would be brought in after contract award.
18) Describe your material release/handling/tracking system at the production facility for Contractor Furnished Material (CFM) and Government Furnished Material (GFM). Describe the protections that are in place to ensure material is not utilized on an incorrect system or variant.
19) Describe your experience and current capabilities to remove, replace and fabricate Rolled Homogeneous Armor (RHA), High Hard armor steel, mild steel plate and Titanium plate by cutting, welding or brazing. Please include vehicle platforms the work applied to and include material composition, material thickness and equipment required to accomplish the described work.
20) Is your Organization/Facility ISO certified as it relates to quality management systems? If yes, what ISO number? If not, what quality plan do you operate under? Please explain how it is utilized in relation to the vehicles in question number 1, 2 and 5.
21) Describe your approach to in-house quality testing to include test facilities, fixtures, equipment, personnel and lab/personnel certifications.
22) Describe your experience with Digital Engineering/Digital Acquisition and DevSecOps for electronic architectures and software for use in vehicle production.
23) Describe your experience integrating and installing technologies compliant with the Ground Combat Systems (GCS) Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA) vehicle architecture.
24) Describe your experience in handling/storing/accounting for encryption data devices/hardware.
25) Does your company have a Property Accountability System in accordance with FAR 52.245-1 to track Government Furnished Material (GFM)? If yes, describe how your company’s Property Accountability System is in accordance with FAR 52.245-1 to track GFM.
26) Describe your company's capability to perform on a contract containing multiple hardware kits to support a vehicle production that has a period of performance of 12 months or less from date of award.
27) Describe your company’s capability to simultaneously produce tracked vehicle systems in various configurations.
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