Sources Sought for a potential Supply Chain Management Contract for F108 Engine Support – B1 Flange

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Description: Sources Sought for a potential Supply Chain Management Contract for F108 Engine Support – B1 Flange

Solicitation Number To be advised at time of issuance

DISCLAIMER: THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE OR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED.

This Sources Sought Notice is issued for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation. The Government requires that only non-proprietary information be submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for the use of any proprietary information submitted. Responses to the Sources Sought Notice will not be returned. The responses to this notice are not an offer and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any contractor's input resulting from this Sources Sought Notice. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this Sources Sought Notice.

PURPOSE: This Sources Sought Notice is issued as a means of conducting market research to determine if other companies, besides CFM International (CFMI), are capable of performing all necessary tasks required to identify acceptable repairability limits for hole numbers 70 and 71 on the Containment Case B1 Flange for the CFM56-7B27 series of engines (USAF F108) in support of the United States Navy (USN) and provide reports documenting the findings.

The proposed contract action is for PBL support for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under authority of FAR 6.302-1. The effort is anticipated to be supported under the existing F108 PBL contract SPE4AX25D9406. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to support the objectives by responding to this notice. All responses received by the notice response date will be considered by the Government. A decision by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received in response to this notice will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This notice is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or commitment by the Government.

The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 336413.

OBJECTIVES: The contractor would need to perform all necessary analysis to support the USN to identify acceptable repairability limits for hole numbers 70 and 71 on the Containment Case B1 Flange.

Work Planning

The Contractor shall provide support and documentation, including a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost and plan of action and milestones (POAM) for performance of the work as outlined in this document.

Technical Analysis

The Contractor shall perform analysis to support an assessment of the limiting dimensions of the hypothetical flange repair identified in this project inclusive of, but not limited to, the critical elements of the Modeling and Simulation analysis.

Hypothetical Repair Documentation

The Contractor shall develop a report or similar Technical Data Package (TDP) that defines the methods of implementing and the dimensional constraints of this hypothetical repair.

RESPONSES: The Government requires that only non-proprietary information be submitted in response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for the use of any proprietary information submitted.

1. Responses are required by no later than September 12, 2025.

2. Reponses must include the following information:

a. Company Name

b. Address

c. CAGE Code

d. Point of Contact

e. Phone

f. Email

g. Web page URL, if available

h. Small business type or category you represent, if applicable.

i. Identify as a U.S. or Foreign Owned Entity

j. Indicate whether your interest is a prime contractor or as a subcontractor

3. Respondents must address:

a. Their capability to satisfy all objectives listed above, to include a description of the extent and content of prior Sources Sought for a potential Supply Chain Management Contract for F108 Engine Support experience on PBL efforts that are similar in nature and scope and,

b. Their experience with the F108 Engine.

c. Their access to engineering and logistics data for the F108 Engine.

d. Their transition and implementation actions and timeframes to successfully execute the anticipated requirements of this acquisition.

e. Willingness to provide upfront pricing for full term of contract

SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION: Responses to this Sources Sought Notice must be readable by Microsoft

Office or Adobe software. Responses this Sources Sought Notice shall be unclassified and not exceed 20 pages in length.

Please note: emails containing file types such as .zip, .xlsx, docx, or other macro-enabled extension, may not be delivered to the intended recipient. All responses and questions under this Sources Sought Notice must be transmitted electronically to Keith Allgeier at Keith.Allgeier@dla.mil.

Prior to the response date, if necessary, potential respondents may request clarification by email. Significant responses to a potential respondent's request for clarification will be posted to sam.gov under this Sources Sought Notice.

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