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The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Program Executive Office, Air Anti-Submarine Warfare, Assault & Special Mission Programs (PEO-A), Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program... The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Program Executive Office, Air Anti-Submarine Warfare, Assault & Special Mission Programs (PEO-A), Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program Office (PMA-271) seeks sources capable of providing replacement for Generator Control Units (GCU) used in the E-6B aircraft. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS ISSUED AS MARKET RESEARCH SOLELY FOR INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES - IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) OR A PROMISE TO ISSUE AN RFP IN THE FUTURE. THIS SOURCES SOUGHT DOES NOT COMMIT THE GOVERNMENT TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BELOW IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE FINAL REQUIREMENT WILL BE DEFINED UNDER A FORMAL RFP. FURTHER, THE NAVY IS NOT AT THIS TIME SEEKING PROPOSALS AND WILL NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS. RESPONDENTS ARE ADVISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PAY FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS INCURRED IN RESPONSE TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE. ALL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH RESPONDING TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT WILL BE SOLELY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE INTERESTED PARTY. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE RFP, IF ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE FEDERAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES (FBO) WEBSITE. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THIS WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT. The GCU currently utilized on the Navy E-6B aircraft is approximately 25 years into its service life. The Navy desires to replace the current inventory with a form, fit, and function retrofit candidate, which can be installed by organizational level maintenance and has a similar service life of 20-25 years. The Navy plans to procure approximately 160 GCUs. Ideally, the replacement GCU will be a mature, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) system currently in-use by other customers. The offeror should also propose their plan to provide engineering, logistics, and repair support packages. The GCU, part number 946F985-7, provides the following voltage and current control functions for the Integrated Drive Generator (IDG), part number 741899: Automatic voltage regulation, reactive load division, fault current limiting and power limiting, fault protection Bus tie breaker, generator circuit breaker, and generator control relay control. Each E-6B operates eight identical GCUs, one for each primary AC main generator. Sensing of system status and performance is provided to each GCU via three-phase voltage from the associated point of regulation. The GCU contains logic circuitry that provides control and protection for each generating channel. The GCUs are designed to meet the requirements of GCU specification 204-13005-64 and MIL-STD-464C, and are "hardness critical items". The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 336413 with a Small Business Size standard of 1,000 employees. The Product Service Code (PSC) is 2925. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size. 1. An UNCLASSIFIED description of the respondent's general capabilities to support this effort to include any existing licensing agreements with OEM which may allow access to technical data required to fulfill the requirements. 2. CAGE code, Data Universal Numbering System (D-U-N-S Number), and mailing address. 3. Business size: Companies responding to this request should indicate whether they are a large or small business, small disadvantaged business, woman-owned business, HUBZONE small business and/or service disabled veteran-owned small business. Please inform us if your company intends to perform the work as the prime contractor or if you desire to subcontract with a prime contractor. Ensure your response contains your company's name, street address, point of contact with phone number and email address, company web page URL. NAVAIR expects to receive from each respondent an UNCLASSIFIED Full Response with their capability/concept summary, which contains a description of technical data defining the proposed GCU concept. The concept summary shall be written from a system solution perspective showing how the concept and development methodology could satisfy the following requirements within 45 days from the RFI posting: 1. Description of the proposed GCU solution. 2. Description of the required electrical interface to the proposed GCU. 3. A detailed list of anticipated end product physical and performance characteristics/ technical data. 4. Reliability, maintainability and affordability characteristics. 5. Platform and support equipment integration/interface concepts. 6. Integration/interface methodology. 7. Any Technology insertion opportunities. 8. An assessment of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of the proposed product to include key subsystems and a description of the Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL). 9. Options for life-cycle sustainment support utilizing existing commercial and/or Government Department of Defense (DOD) infrastructure. 10. Identify how depot level repair will be provided. 11. Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) costs for Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) to include design, development, test and integration. Recurring costs to include 160 kits. 12. Prospective offerors MUST address any existing licensing/agreements and their planned approach for integration of the proposed solution in cooperation with Industry partners.