TECHNICAL, ENGINEERING, LOGISTICAL SERVICES AND SUPPLIES (TELSS) FOR THE OVERHAUL, REPAIR AND RECAPITALIZATION OF THE T-55 ENGINE AND COMPONENT PARTS   2

This effort will be a performance-based, fully integrated effort that includes the technical and engineering support and the materiel integration function necessary to support CCAD in overhauling, repairing, testing, and modernizing the Army's fleet of rotary wing aircrafts. The contractor must be able to provide the full range of services and parts in order to meet the Government's requirement. The contractor must provide technology insertion, technology refreshment/modernization of components, obsolescence management, spare parts and test cell upgrades and operational proficiency in support of reliability improvements for the engines. The contractor must have the background design knowledge, experience, and data necessary to support technical, engineering, materiel, and modernization capability as well as a ready source of engineering support and a qualified pool of vendors to supply parts in compliance with the original design intent. The contractor must provide AMCOM's depot maintenance engineering with technical and engineering assistance based on OEM's product design and logistics database and develop work scope and process improvement recommendations in support of the overhaul and repair functions at CCAD. The contractor must assist and advise CCAD in establishing commercial best practices in the areas of production planning, production control, materials management and process engineering. The contractor must develop overhaul and workstations kits to streamline CCAD component production and ensure availability of all spare parts required in overhaul. The contractor must provide spare parts and logistical support functions in inventory management of spare parts associated with the T55 engine and components.

The proposed contractual action will be a Five (5) year, Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) five (5) year contract for technical, engineering, and logistics services and provide 100 percent of parts to support the CCAD in the overhaul of the T-55 (NSN 2840-01-458-5361) family of engines applicable to the Chinook (CH-47) Helicopter.

This effort is commercial; FAR Part 12 will be utilized. This is a Critical Safety Requirement. This procurement is restricted to Honeywell International Inc., Defense & Space, 1300 W. Warner Road, Tempe, Arizona (CAGE Code 02LU7), who is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the T-55. Neither complete nor adequate data was available to support full and open competition.

Firms responding to this announcement must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and should include company name, cage code, point of contact, address, business status and indicate any intellectual property rights issues pursuant to your product. Firms that recognize and can provide the full range of services and parts in order to meet the Government's requirement are encouraged to identify themselves. Firms are encouraged to seek source approval in order to compete for future solicitations by accessing the website www.redstone.army.mil/cmo/ and looking under Standard Aviation and Missile Source Approval Request (SAMSAR). All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the Agency. No telephone requests/oral communication in response to the solicitation will be accepted. Requests for the solicitation shall be by mail or email. You may mail your request to Cassandra Gideon, US Army Contracting Command-Redstone, CCAM-ALD, Building 5303, 2nd Floor, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000. Email requests should be sent to cassandra.f.gideon.civ@mail.mil. Proposals can be hand-carried, mailed via the US Postal Service, or delivered by a commercial delivery service. No fax or email responses shall be accepted for the initial proposal.