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This notice is being published as required by FAR 5.201(b)(1). Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, NJ intends to award a Firm-Fixed price contract for six hundred ninety-six (696) ea... This notice is being published as required by FAR 5.201(b)(1). Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, NJ intends to award a Firm-Fixed price contract for six hundred ninety-six (696) each Trough Sidewall Clevis, Part Number 34000D1572740, engineering test reports, and an Integrated Master Schedule for CVN-80 in support of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launching System (EMALS) program. The Contractor shall manufacture the Trough Sidewall Clevis in accordance with Government drawings. The required Trough Sidewall Clevis are Critical Safety Items (CSIs) and therefore it is the Navy's intent to pursue a limited competition between the following vendors whom are currently qualified to provide these CSIs: General Atomics, Inc. Electromagnetic Systems Division, 16969 Mesamint Street, San Diego, CA 92127-2407 General Tool Company, 101 Landy Ln, Cincinnati, OH 45215 The Entwistle Company, LLC, 6 Bigelow St, Hudson, MA 01749-2638 The NAICS code associated with this requirement is 333998, All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing. The Government intends to procure the above items under the authority of 10 USC 2304 (c) (1), FAR 6.302-1. The limited number of responsible sources listed above are the only companies that can meet the agency's immediate need for the Trough Sidewall Clevis for CVN-80 in support of the EMALS program. No solicitation package is available for this procurement. This Notice of Intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responsible sources are encouraged to submit a response to this synopsis in writing that contains information that may be used by the Government in determining whether or not to conduct a competitive procurement. Based upon market research, the Government is not using the policies contained in FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in its solicitation for the described supplies. However, all responsible sources may identify by providing a response to this notice, their interest and capability to satisfy the Government’s requirement with a commercial item within 15 days of this notice. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon the response to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit for an award of a contract. No telephone responses will be accepted. Information received as a result of the notice of intent will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Responses to this notice can be sent via email directly to the Contract Specialist, Ms. Kelly Gray at Kelly.e.gray13.civ@us.navy.mil.

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NAICS 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) The NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVAIR), Propulsion and Power Engineeri... NAICS 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) The NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVAIR), Propulsion and Power Engineering Department is looking to solicit for white papers in response to the Government’s Statement of Objectives. For successful offerers, a Request for Proposal will be submitted, and a contract will subsequently be awarded off Broad Agency Announcement 2023 for Propulsion & Power of Naval Air Vehicles, Solicitation N68335-23-R-0001. Detailed information is provided in the NAVAIR publication “Guide to Naval Aviation Propulsion and Power Technology Development Programs for Fiscal Year 2023.” The aforementioned guide is attached to the beta.SAM announcement. Evaluations will be conducted by a panel of government experts using the following criteria: Scientific and technical merits of the proposed research to include, (1) the degree to which proposed research and development objectives support the targeted technical topic and (2) validity of the technical basis for the approach offered; and potential contributions to the Navy Propulsion, Power and Energy objectives to include (1) relevance to the stated technology areas of interest; (2) anticipated operational military (or commercial, if applicable) utility; (3) ability of proposed system/study to be rapidly ready for transition; (4) suitability for transition to Navy systems; and (5) projected affordability of transitioning the technology to the fleet Other evaluation criteria, of lesser importance but equal to each other are; The offeror’s capabilities, related experience, past performance in similar efforts, research personnel, facilities, techniques or unique combinations of these which are integral factors for achieving the proposal objectives and the realism and reasonableness of cost, including proposed cost sharing. No further criteria will be used in the evaluation. The technical and cost information will be evaluated at the same time. Further details on these criteria are contained in the aforementioned Guide. Selection for award will be based on the potential benefit to the Government weighed against the cost of the proposals, in view of the availability of government funds. Cost plus fixed fee, cost sharing, and cost contracts are anticipated. Other types of contracts may be proposed, but offerors are advised that the Government is under no obligation to accept. Specific reporting requirements cited on the Contract Data Requirements List (DD1423) shall be specified within each contract award. At a minimum all offerors will be required to submit the following reports: a) Detailed Planning Report; b) Progress Report; c) Financial Reports; d) Test Plans; e) Program Reviews; f) Presentation Material; and g) Final Report. Proposal submission process, format and content, as well as deliverable items are delineated in the above mentioned NAVAIR Guide. Initial proposals or White Papers (WP) should not exceed 30 pages in length, including a cost estimate. BRIEFNESS IS DESIRABLE. WPs RANGING FROM A FEW PAGES TO 15 PAGES ARE THE NORM. Cost estimates in WPs for stand-alone subsets of effort are encouraged. Offerors of those WPs found to be consistent with the intent of the BAA will be invited to submit a formal cost and technical proposal. One original, and later, if invited, of each formal cost and technical proposal are to be submitted. WPs and Proposals shall be submitted to: Melanie Vella, melanie.k.vella.civ@us.navy.mil. Procurement Specialist, Lakehurst, NJ 08733. WPs and Proposals that include sensitive information can be submitted through the DoD Safe (https://safe.apps.mil/). WHITE PAPER SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE BY 30 SEPT 2023. The Navy reserves the right to select for award any, all, part of, or none of the responses received and intends to fully fund any resultant contract(s), depending on available funding. The Government will not pay any proposal preparation costs for responding to this Sources Sought. Responses should be forwarded at no cost to the Government. The cost of preparing proposals in response to this Sources Sought is not considered an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect cost as specified in FAR 31.205-18. Educational institutions, Small Business concerns, Small Disadvantaged Business concerns, Women Owned Small Business concerns, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Veteran-Owned Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, HUBZone Small Business, Women-Owned Small Business and Minority Institutions are especially encouraged to submit proposals for consideration under this BAA.