Solicitation Number: W15QKN-19-X-04GM
Agency: Department of the Army
Office: Army Contracting Command
Location: ACC - NJ (W15QKN)
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On November 5, the U.S. Army posted a call for submissions for a Short Range Reconnaissance System Platform (Solicitation Number: W15QKN-19-X-04GM). Submissions will be accepted through November 18. ***This posting is directly related to the special notice posting (W15QKN18X03RL) of the DRAFT Performance Specification for the SRR Platform on September 10, 2018.
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Short Range Reconnaissance: Short Range Reconnaissance Area of Interest Short Range Reconnaissance System Overview: DoD seeks commercial solutions for fielding of the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) platform. The SRR is intended to be an inexpensive, rucksack portable, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) small unmanned aircraft that provides the platoon with a rapidly deployed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability to provide situational awareness beyond the next terrain feature.
Acquisition Strategy: SRR acquisition will follow the DIU Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) process with the goal of awarding prototype Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) to one or more companies who meet the intent of this Area of Interest (AOI). The prototype OTAs provide the contractual foundation to develop and equip units in low quantities for operational evaluation. Performance throughout the prototype OTA to include the operational evaluation will serve to inform which system(s) are awarded a follow-on production OTA for wider fielding.
System Requirements: The Performance Specification (P-Spec) listed below serves as the evaluation criteria for all phases of the prototype OTA. This criteria will continue to be refined based on technical developments and warfighter feedback. All changes and updates will be made available to industry accordingly.
Selection and Award: Proposed solutions will be evaluated using the CSO process. Technical priorities to consider when conducting design trade-off analysis include rucksack packability, ease of employment, reliability and endurance to consistently execute the mission, as well as unit cost.
NOTICE: The Government will not provide funding for company participation in the flight demonstration. This will be performed at the company’s expense.
Schedule: Immediately upon award, awardees will begin integration required to transition the baseline commercial system to meet the PSPEC. A series of User Assessments will occur throughout the program to provide feedback on design as well serve as evaluation criteria. User assessment 1 will occur early in the schedule and utilize Alpha prototypes to allow the warfighter to operate the systems and provide initial feedback as a knowledge point for both the companies and the Government. The Alpha prototype in User Assessment 1 will not be required to meet the P-Spec requirements.
Development time will then be provided to allow for integration of critical components (e.g. universal ground controller, radio, thermal camera, etc). This development cycle will be overlapped with a series of user assessments to demonstrate maturity of system integration and provide user feedback critical to the design process. The user assessments will continue to increase in complexity of integration and flight testing.
User assessments will inform which system(s) will transition into production. Production will be executed under a follow-on contract.
If appropriate, the Government may request vendors to create integrated teams to combine solutions. Submissions accepted from Nov 5th until Nov 18th.
Companies are advised that any Prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) awarded in response to this Area of Interest may result in the award of a follow-on production contract or transaction without the use of competitive procedures. The follow-on production contract or transaction will be available for use by one or more organizations in the Department of Defense and, as a result, the magnitude of the follow-on production contract or agreement could be significantly larger than that of the prototype OTA. As such, any Prototype Other Transaction Agreement will include the following statement relative to the potential for follow-on production: “In accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2371b(f), and upon a determination that the prototype project for this transaction has been successfully completed, this competitively awarded prototype OTA may result in the award of a follow-on production contract or transaction without the use of further competitive procedures.”
Note 1: Requirements noted by “(target)” state minimums and maximums that are not absolute thresholds. They are approximate target performances that, within reason, should be included in capability and cost tradeoffs. Requirements not noted by (target) are firm requirements.
Note 2: SRR Mk1 designates the initial UAS that will be fielded for the SRR program. Future variants are possible but currently unplanned.
Note 3: A secondary hand controller that runs a mobile application of qgroundcontrol will be evaluated as an additional feature, but does not to replace the requirement for qgroundcontrol integrated on the universal ground controller.
Note 4: An addendum to MAVLink protocol is acceptable as long as the platform can still accept MAVLink commands and the addendum is open.
Submissions accepted from 11/05/2018 10:00 to 11/18/2018 23:59 PT |
Companies are hereby advised of the following:
1. Solicitation for solution briefs is not a guarantee that award and obligation of funds will be made.
2. The costs incurred by companies in the preparation and submission of their solution briefs in response to solicitations will not be paid by the DoD and are not allowable as a direct charge to any DoD contract or agreement.
3. By submission of its solution brief, the company agrees that the DoD
a. may reproduce the brief, or any portions thereof, to the extent necessary to evaluate the offer.
b. may use information contained in the brief only for evaluation purposes and shall not disclose, directly or indirectly, such information to any person including potential evaluators, unless that person has been authorized to receive such information.