NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT

Notice of intent to negotiate a sole source contract with Miltec Corporation, located at 678 Discovery Drive, Huntsville, AL 35806-2802. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intends to award a sole source contract to Miltec Corporation under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(3) and in accordance with FAR 6.302-3(a)(2)(iii): services may be deemed to be available only from the original source in the case of follow-on contracts for the continued provision of high specialized services. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are not being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The associated NAICS code for this procurement is 541712. This is not a Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program, nor a set-aside program. The closing date for this combined synopsis/solicitation is November 30, 2009, 4:00pm ET. This document incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-17. MDA competitively awarded HQ0006-07-D-0004, a CPFF, IDIQ contract, to Miltec Corporation. Under this contract, Miltec is to execute flight test planning and prepare flight test payloads for qualification and producibility testing. The experiments are used to assess flight hardware componentry and subassembly parts for potential insertion approval into the Ballistic Missile Defense Program. The contract was issued to support Flight Experiment (FE) 1 and 2. The contract ceiling of $4.8M has been reached with the award of Task Order 0002. The contract ceiling was arrived at sooner than planned due to unanticipated problems for which Miltec was not at fault. Further flight test planning and payload preparation are still required for FE 2, and therefore MDA intends to issue a modification to the current contract, raising the ceiling in the amount of $5M. The notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, the Government will consider all responses received within 15 days of this notice. The applicable NAICS code is 541712. The determination to proceed on a sole source basis is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses to this announcement should be sent to the following address within 15 days of this notice: Missile Defense Agency (MDA)/DACV, Attention: Mily H. Le, 7100 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-7100. THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PAY FOR ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYNOPSIS.