Description
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is seeking information from companies capable of providing TR-333 Hydrophone Housings. The hydrophone housings are used in the manufacture of US and UK hydrophones for the SP24 TRIDENT. The Government is looking for companies that can meet the requirements and certification requirements for the hydrophone housings. The estimated cost to restore capability if a different vendor's hydrophone housings is procured is projected to be roughly $4 million higher than the proposed cost to utilize an existing certified source.
* The hydrophone housings are used as replacement assets during normal refit/replenish/replacement operations.
* The housings can be delivered, along with production test and inspection data for each, and shall generate and submit Certificates of Compliance to the government with each shipment of housings.
* The program requires critical component suppliers to go through an extensive qualification plan to include inspection, certification, first article testing, and operational testing.
* Responses shall address how the Government can offset the estimated $4 million in cost duplication and the schedule delay that are anticipated to result if a new source is utilized.
* Responses shall include availability, budgetary cost estimate, and lead time of the solution.
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