28 -- NP2000 Vibration analyzer market survey and acquisition

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) intends to negotiate a sole source delivery order with Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, CT 06096, for a market survey on Vibration Analysis Support Equipment and a plan for conducting the selection of a supplier for procurement of this equipment for use with E-2 and C-2 aircraft equipped with NP2000 propeller systems. Based on the market survey results and other factors to be developed in the plan, the contractor will select and procure the equipment and deliver it to the Government within 90 days of the issuance of the delivery order. This effort will result in a program that shall be designed to achieve and maintain installed performance vibration tolerances specified in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) propeller systems specifications and to achieve reduction in USN organizational level maintenance and Aviation Depot Level Repair (AVDLR) cost of the E-2 and C-2 propeller systems. Hamilton Sundstrand is the designer, developer, and sole manufacturer of the 54460 and NP2000 propellers and is, therefore, the only source that possesses the indepth technical knowledge necessary to provide these services within the time required to meet USN requirements. See Note 22. NAVAIR synopsis No. 20004-04.