THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. This RFI is for planning and informational purposes only and shall NOT be considered as a Request for Proposal (RFP) or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. The Government will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred in responding to this RFI or furnishing the requested information. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of a contractor’s submission of responses to this RFI or the Government's use of such information. The Government reserves the right to reject, in whole or in part, any contractor's input resulting from this RFI. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 15.201(e), responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

1.0    Introduction:

Program Manager (PM) Medium and Heavy Tactical Vehicles (MHTV) falls under Program Executive Officer Land Systems within Marine Corps Systems Command. PM MHTV is responsible for total life-cycle management of the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR), Logistics Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR), and Aircraft Rescue Firefighting/ Expeditionary Firefighting and Rescue (ARFF/EFR), (P-19R). PM MHTV United States Marine Corps (USMC) is gathering / seeking information to identify interested vendors that have the technical and logistical capability to identify new sources of supply and/or design and manufacture quality supplies and test and support replacement components to mitigate obsolescence issues on PM MHTV Family of Vehicles (FoV).

The MTVR is a medium lift tactical vehicle capable of transporting a payload of 7.1-ton off-road, 15-ton on-road and is based on a 3-axle six-wheel drive (6x6) chassis. The MTVR is available in six variants: cargo, extended wheelbase cargo, dump, tractor, wrecker, and Re-Supply Vehicle. Variants come both armored and unarmored. The MTVR was produced from 2000-2015 and currently has an item exit date of 2042. The LVSR is a 22.5-ton heavy lift vehicle based on a five-axle ten-wheel drive (10x10) chassis with 3 variants: cargo, tractor, and wrecker. Variants come both armored and unarmored. The LVSR was produced from 2008-2014 and has an item exit date of 2035. P-19R is an ARFF/EFR military vehicle based on a 3-axle six-wheel drive (6x6) chassis with Commercial Off the Shelf firefighting equipment. P-19R was produced from 2015-2019 and has an item exit date of 2040. The PM MHTV FoV was designed and manufactured by Oshkosh Defense, LLC.

A requirement has been identified to minimize and mitigate the impacts of part obsolescence for the vehicle systems identified. The effort will consist of engineering and logistics tasks listed below. The Program Management Office is interested in awarding a contract for obsolescence issues as a mitigation strategy to sustain the PM MHTV FoV until their item exit dates.

Engineering tasks:

• Identification of alternate sources of supply whose forecasted availability is 5 years or greater.
• Reverse Engineering.
• Development of Engineering Change Proposals for replacement items impacting form/fit/function.
• Development of Request for Variation for replacement items that cannot meet the legacy form/fit/function requirements.
• Development of Technical Data Packages (TDP).
• Design and manufacture of fabricated items.
• Update schematics.
• Test & evaluation of replacement components, to include modeling and simulation as required.
• Systems Engineering Technical Reviews (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Physical Configuration Audit).

Logistics Tasks:

• Update maintenance & repair manuals.
• Provide provisioning and cataloging data.
• Validation / Verification events for manual updates.

1.1    Purpose:

This RFI constitutes market research in accordance with FAR Part 10 and is not an RFP. PM MHTV is issuing this RFI to determine if more than one (1) vendor has the capability to provide the support described in section 2.0.

1.2       Objective:

Data submitted in response to this RFI will be used to assess the marketplace environment for businesses to provide the USMC with the support described above.

2.0       Requested Information:

Respondents who are interested are requested to provide the information that identifies their capability to provide the support described below.

The Government does not possess sufficient rights in technical data to provide all the