The U.S. Contracting Command – New Jersey (ACC-NJ), on behalf of U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Armaments Center (CCDC AC), Energetics & Warheads Directorate (EWD), Explosives Research Branch at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, is conducting market research to determine the capability of businesses to obtain and perform installation on a temperature conditioner to use for material characterization testing experiments. Items developed for the Army often undergo a range of temperature environments depending on the various applications. Environmental chambers that are capable of interfacing with material testing equipment in compression/tensile testing. This is necessary to evaluate materials of interest being developed close to their operational conditions. DISCLAIMER: This sources sought is for informational purposes only. This is not a “Request for Proposal (RFP) to be submitted. It does not constitute a solicitation and shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government. Responses in any form are not offers and the Government is under no obligation to award a contract as a result of this announcement. No funds are available to pay for preparation of responses to this announcement. Any information submitted by respondents to this technical description is strictly voluntary. Information submitted will not be returned. Not responding to this notice does not preclude participation in any potential future solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the government-wide point of entry (GPE) at https://beta.sam.gov/. It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor the GPE for additional information pertaining to this requirement. VENDOR QUESTIONNAIRE: The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information from industry to assist in the market research. Firms/companies are invited to indicate their interest and capability to satisfy the above requirements by identifying the following items: 1. Company Name 2. Company Address / Country Represented / Website 3. Company point of contact and phone number 4. Business Size (Small/Large & Number of Employees) CAGE Code / DUNS Number. 5. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this effort is 332117. 6. Commerciality: (a.) Our product as described above, has been sold, leased or licensed to the general public (b.) Our product as described above, has been sold in substantial quantities, on a competitive basis, to multiple state and local governments. The development of the product was done exclusively at private expense. (c) None of the above applies. Explain. 7. Location where primary work will be performed (if more than one location, please indicate the percentage for each location). 8. Major partners or suppliers. 9. Identify existing facilities, equipment and workforce (identify what percentage would be supporting this new effort and what additional resources would be required). 10. Provide minimum and maximum monthly production rates of past production of same or similar items. 11. Identify manufacturing, managing and engineering experience of like systems of equal or greater complexity. 12. Identify lead time, including supplier/design qualification efforts and production ramp up time, to meet full capability for production and sustainment. 13. Please provide any additional comments. The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 423830 – Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers with a Small Business Size Standard of 100 employees. The Product Service Code is 6636 – Environmental Chambers and Related Equipment. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size in their capabilities statement. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Each potential source is requested to provide the contract number(s), dollar value(s) and brief description of work previously or currently being performed, which specifically demonstrates the contractor's ability to successfully satisfy the requirements of the Technical Services. Firms shall also provide point of contact information, where available, for the efforts cited above. In addition, please provide the firm’s name and address, point of contact with telephone number and email address, CAGE Code and DUNS number, and size of business (i.e. large, small, disadvantaged, veteran owned, woman owned, etc.). This is a market survey for information only, and shall not be construed as a request for a proposal or as an obligation on the part of the US Government. The US Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this market survey or otherwise pay for information solicited. Offerors are directed to NOT submit proposals at this time. All data should be sent at no cost to the US Government NO LATER THAN 17 March 2020 at 3PM Eastern Time. All submissions are requested to be made via electronic mail to ATTN: Jonathan Kilgore, Contract Specialist at
[email protected] and Wilson Au, Contracting Officer at
[email protected] . Phone inquiries WILL NOT be addressed; all requests should be submitted in writing via email. Respondents WILL NOT be notified of the results of the survey.