61--Provide a Small, Soldier Portable Power Manager

Under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(a)2(b), the U.S. Army RDECOM Contracting Center, Natick Contracting Division, Natick, MA intends to award a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Protonex Technology Corporation of Southborough, MA, to provide a small, soldier portable power manager to distribute and regulate power across the soldier system as well as log data on consumption, usage and other variables related to power usage through bi-directional communication with the SM-BUS v1.1 capable conformal battery. The power manager must be ruggedized for military use under use under MIL-STD-810F. The SNPLI soldier system components that will transmit data to the power manager are leveraged from the USAF Battlefield Air Operations (BAO) arena, so the power manager will have to be compatible with those areas. Protonex is the only manufacturer and retailer of the SPM611 and SPM612 Soldier Power Manager (SPM). As a result they are the only company who can tailor their system software/firmware to be compatible with the requirements of the SNPLI soldier system Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement in the future. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement to the U.S. Army RDECOM Contracting Center, Natick Contracting Division, via e-mail at [email protected]. no later than 11 February 2010, 12:00 pm EST.