SOURCES SOUGHT/REQUEST FOR INFORMATION The Department of Defense, United States Air Force (USAF), Air Force Material Command (AFMC), Air Force Test Center (AFTC), is currently conducting market research seeking a capabilities statement from all potential sources, including small businesses (SB), 8(a), HUBZone, Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned (EDWOSB), Woman-Owned (WOSB), and Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) small businesses that are capable of providing the brand name or equal requirement described below: Brand name or equal to the Universal Robot UR5e, Collaborative Robot conforming to the following requirements: Must be collaborative Must be 6-axis robot (6 degrees of freedom) with 360 degree working range of motion for each axis and up to 180 degrees/sec max speed (bi-directional) Must operationally compatible with up to 5kg payload Must have reach up to 850mm Must have positional repeatability of 0.03mm or better Must have built in 6 axis force/torque sensors Must be operable with no degradation of specifications when mounted to table, wall, ceiling or at an angle Must include teach/operation pendant with 12 in or larger touchscreen with minimum resolution of 1200x800, and include emergency stop button System must have “teach” mode in which robot can be programmed by physically moving the robot through the desired motion Must have noise no greater than 65dB Must operate on standard wall plug power (110V) Must have controller that supports minimum of 500Hz update rate and can be directed using Python, C/C++, Matlab and Labview software Must have a minimum of the following I/O ports: 16 digital in, 16 digital out; 2 analog in, 2 analog out; 4 separated high speed Quadrature digital inputs; 1 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 ports All interested vendors shall submit a response demonstrating their capability to provide these items to the Primary Point of Contact listed below. Interested vendors must indicate whether they are capable of providing the collaborative robot through the open market, GSA Schedule 70, or NASA SEWP. Proposals are not being requested or accepted at this time. As stipulated in FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. No solicitation (Request for Proposal) exists at this time; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. The decision to solicit for a contract shall be solely within the Government’s discretion. The Product Service Code (PSC) assigned to this acquisition is 6640 , Laboratory Equipment and Supplies. The NAICS Code assigned to this acquisition is 423830 , Industrial Machinery and Equipment with a small business size standard of 100 employees. Respondents should indicate their size in relation to this size standard and indicate socio-economic status (i.e. SB, 8(a), HUBZone, EDWOSB, WOSB, or SDVOSB). Respondents are further requested to indicate their status as a Foreign-owned/Foreign-controlled firm and any contemplated use of foreign national employees on this effort. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based upon responses hereto for any subsequent action. All prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a DoD contract. No set-aside decision has been made. Note that a key factor in determining an acquisition to be a Small Business Set Aside is that small business prime contractors must perform at least 50% of the effort, as defined in FAR Clause 52.219-14. Any information submitted by respondents to this sources sought is voluntary. This sources sought notice is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government reimburse any costs associated with the submission of information in response to this notice. Respondents will not be individually notified of the results of any government assessments. The Government’s assessment of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside for small business, or any particular small business program. CAPABILITIES STATEMENT: All interested vendors shall submit a capabilities statement that explicitly demonstrates their capability to provide the requirement as stated in this notice to include delivery F.O.B Destination. The capabilities statement should be brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrate an ability to meet the stated requirement. The response must not exceed 4 pages. Responses may be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address:
[email protected]. Correspondence sent via email shall contain a subject line that reads “ FA2823-20-Q-9070, Collaborative Robot .” If this subject line is not included, the e-mail may not get through e-mail filters at Eglin AFB. Filters are designed to delete emails without a subject or with a suspicious subject or attachment. Attachments with files ending in .zip or .exe are not allowable and will be deleted. Ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xsls, or .xls documents are attached to your email. All other attachments may be deleted. The Government may or may not use any responses to this sources sought as a basis for a subsequent project/requirement. Any project/requirement developed from the sources sought responses may be the subject of a subsequent acquisition; any such subsequent acquisition will be posted in FedBizOpps.gov separately. Responses to this sources sought will not be returned. The Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received, or provide feedback to the respondents with respect to any of the information submitted under this sources sought. No requests for a bid package or solicitation will be accepted; a bid package or solicitation does not exist at this time. In order to protect the integrity of any possible future acquisition, no additional information will be provided and no appointments for presentations will be made in reference to this sources sought. Only government employees will review submitted responses to this sources sought. Respondents are advised that employees of commercial firms under contract with the Government may be used to administratively process submissions and perform other administrative duties requiring access to other contractor’s proprietary information. These administrative support contractors include nondisclosure agreements prohibiting their contractor employees from disclosing any information submitted by other contractors or using such information for any purpose other than that for which it was furnished. RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 12:00 P.M. NOON (CST) 17 April 2020. Direct all questions concerning this requirement to Mr. Joshua Molyneux at
[email protected].