SAM #N00019-24-RFPREQ-TPM234-0040

Award for ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System Low-Band Consolidation Production Follow-On

This award notice details a sole source contract from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for critical upgrades to the ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System: - Government Buyer: - Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) - OEM Highlight: - Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) Systems LLC is the sole designer, developer, integrator, and manufacturer for these transmitters - Products and Services Requested: - Modification and production of up to 85 Low Band Transmitters (LBTs) to Low Band Consolidation (LBC) Transmitters for the ALQ-99 system - Includes associated spare components - Update of up to 11 LBCs from the -501 to the -503 variant - Notable Requirements: - LBC Transmitter is a direct form and fit replacement for the LBT in the AN/ALQ-99 pod, used on EA-18G aircraft for Airborne Electronic Attack - CAES is the only known source with the technical expertise for these modifications - Period of Performance: - Base period with two option years; deliveries estimated to begin in Quarter 3 of a future fiscal year - Place of Performance and Delivery: - Contracting office at Naval Air Systems Command Headquarters, Patuxent River, MD - Work performed in Lansdale, PA

Description

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) sole source contract to Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) Systems Inc., 305 Richardson Road, Lansdale, PA 19446, to produce and deliver modifications to convert Low Band Transmitters (LBTs) to Low Band Consolidation (LBC) Transmitters, as a follow-on to the previous LBC production contract N00019-23-C-0038. 

This procurement implements an engineering change proposal (ECP) developed under a previous contract and includes supplies and services required for the production and delivery of up to eighty-five (85) modified LBTs to LBC transmitters and associated spare components, as well as updating up to eleven (11) -501 LBCs to -503 variant.

The LBC Transmitter will be a direct form and fit replacement of the LBT in the existing ALQ-99 pod.  This award includes a base and two option years with deliveries estimated to begin in Quarter 3 FY27.

The applicable NAICS Code is 334511, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing. 

The LBT and Band 4 transmitter are part of the AN/ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System (TJS), are flown on the EA-18G aircraft, and provide vital Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) jamming capability against radar and communications targets in the suppression of enemy air defenses. This acquisition is being pursued on a sole source basis under the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C. 3204(a) (1), as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 (a) (2) (ii) (B), in which it is likely an award to any other source would result in “Unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency’s requirements." As the sole system designer, developer, integrator, and manufacturer of the LBT, CAES is the only known source with the requisite knowledge, experience, and technical expertise to modify the LBC Transmitter and successfully integrate into the existing LBT and AN/ALQ-99 TJS.  This contract being synopsized will be a follow-on contract to sole source FY23 LBC contract # N00019-23-C-0038 to upgrade existing test equipment and create new test equipment.

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