• The Army Contracting Command requires Drogue Plates and Rear Support Plates for Pine Bluff Arsenal.
• This is an award under NAICS 332993, Ammunition (except small arms) Manufacturing, with a fixed price IDIQ contract.
• The contract has a minimum guarantee for 5,000 Drogue Plates and 6,800 Rear Support Plates, with a maximum quantity of 28,000 and 20,400 respectively.
• First Article Testing deliveries are due 90 days after contract award, with subsequent deliveries starting 60 days after acceptance.
• Warheads with diameters between 3 and 4 inches have been successfully manufactured and delivered by contractors under contract T90-19-100 (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) in support of the Army's precision-guided munitions program.
• The company has provided presses for various components, including high-speed turning facilities, machining centers used in energetic machining, and electric press testing stations with maximum operating pressures ranging up to 180 kpsi.
• Facility capabilities include current annual production rates of ~30000 units/year at a multi-shift operation rate, with the absolute maximum surge capacity estimated to be around 600 per shift/day when utilizing three full shifts, assuming 8 hour shifts and peak demand conditions for a four-day week.
• Tolls are in place on all contracted work related to this project, with prices negotiable prior to contract award.
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• The Army Contracting Command-Rock Island is seeking CONUS sources for manufacture of high precision shaped charge, explosively formed penetrator (EFP), and multiple explosively formed penetrator (MEFP) liners with high geometric tolerances and extremely high material purity.
• Respondents must describe prior experience fabricating liner pre-forms related to high-precision requirements, past performance including delivery quantities and production rates on behalf of the Government, and inspection capabilities for high precision production.
• Responses should outline specific liner materials (including forging liner pre-forms or coordination with industry partners), details of recent past performance (5 years ago) focusing on EFP, MEFP liners, and compliance with anti-armor/anti-materiel warhead specifications.
• Facility inspection capability and relevant experience in fielding high precision shaped charge, EFP, or MEFP liners for use within the Government's specific application is required.
• The Army Contracting Command-Rock Island has experience with cast cure loaded 3-4 inch diameter warheads weighing 1-5 pounds, manufactured using HE cast cure and melt pour loading capabilities.
• Our facility in Picatinny Arsenal, NJ currently produces at least 10,000 per year of the specified cast cure and melt pour warhead diameter between 2.5-4.0 inches with an economic run rate of approximately $1.5 million annually.
• Prior experience includes successful delivery to the US Army of several 3-4 inch diameter 20 kilogram cast cure loaded, 0.7 gram melt pour loaded warheads every quarter for past three-year contracts.
• Our current facility is projected to reach an absolute maximum annual surge capacity of approximately 200%. This can be achieved with existing infrastructure by tripling our facilities capacity over the next two years through expansion of equipment and personnel.
• We estimate a year-by-year production profile as follows:
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