24_006 Womans Jumper - Dress Blue and White

Request for Information– Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility

End-items, JUMPER, WOMAN’S SERVICE DRESS BLUE and JUMPER, WOMAN’S, SERVICE DRESS WHITE

Product Service Code:          8415 – Clothing, Special Purpose

NAICS Code:                        3152 – Cut and Sew Apparel Contractors

Background:  The Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility (NCTRF) is conducting a market survey to determine the availability of domestic cut and sew manufacturers to produce development samples of the U.S. Navy woman’s jumpers. After review of industry submissions, end item manufacturers may be considered to produce short run prototypes of U.S. Navy women’s jumpers.

Description:  NCTRF seeks to identify domestic manufacturers to produce the woman’s Service Dress blue and Service Dress white jumpers for development samples in the new women’s sizing structure. The basic material for the dress blue jumper shall be wool, serge, 15 ounces per linear yard, Blue 3346, conforming to Type I, Class 5 of MIL-DTL-823M. The white jumper shall be a polyester twill cloth shade White 3006, conforming to NCTRF-PD-87052A.  Jumper designs see Figures 1 and 2.

Interested Parties:  To respond to this request for information, interested parties are REQUIRED to submit the following to enable NCTRF to conduct visual assessment to  determine suitability for end use:

1. A cover sheet that identifies the interested party, their cage code, their business size under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), contact information for the  technical point of contact, to include name, email address and phone number.
2. Sample Submission
   1. A minimum of two (2) garment samples of like design and material per item, four (4) total samples.
   2. Anticipated lead-time to deliver development samples in two base sizes.
   3. A unit cost estimate.
   4. Country of Origin of material.
   5. Information which certifies that the finished product is composed of materials which have been safely used commercially or provide sufficient toxicity data to show compatibility with prolonged, direct skin contact. The finished cloth shall not present a dermal health hazard when used as intended.

Required samples submission samples/documentation shall be submitted to NCTRF no later than COB 30DEC24.  Information will be handled as proprietary, and samples will not be returned.

Contact Information:  Please submit electronic responses along with any questions and/or requests for information regarding this notice to Haile Verville,  (haile.a.verville.civ@us.navy.mil), 508-206-2758 and Amalia Anton Sipoteanu (amalia.g.antonsipoteanu.civ@us.navy.mil), 508-206-2764.  Please send physical samples to Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility, 10 General Greene Ave, Bldg. 86, Attn. Haile Verville, Natick, MA 01760-5019.  Information will be handled as proprietary, and samples will be Government property and will not be returned.

This notice is request for information only.  THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION OR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. No solicitation document exists.  

Important Notice: Availability of Solicitations: Availability of solicitations, FAR 5.102(d) applies, as our office no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Offeror should register to receive notification of this solicitation or solicitation amendments. The solicitation will be posted on https://www.dibbs.bsm.dla.mil//.

Important Note on Foreign Content: The Defense appropriations and authorization acts and other statutes (including what is commonly referred to as "The Berry Amendment" impose restrictions on the DoD's acquisition of foreign products and services. Generally, Clothing and Textile items (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7012) and "specialty metals" (as defined in DFARS clause 252.225-7014) must be grown, reprocessed, reused, melted or produced in the United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico, unless one of the DFARS 225.7002-2 exceptions applies.