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**ATTENTION** ALL FORMAL COMMUNCIATION RELATED TO THIS ACQUISITION MUST BE DIRECTED TO: MRS. LINDSAY LAYNE AND MS. FELICIA DORTCH, ARMY CONTRACTING COMMAND - REDSTONE; EMAIL: LINDSAY.C.LAYNE.CIV@ARMY.MIL, felicia.r.dortch.civ@army.mil NO TELEPHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED. The Army Contracting Command - Redstone is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to industry as a notification of a pending modification to contract W58RGZ-24-D-0067 for the manufacture of the Army's Gateway Mission Router (GMR) product, which was previously awarded under a sole source basis to Vertex Modernization & Sustainment LLC, 6125 E. 21st Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46219-2058, CAGE Code: 96JA0 in July 2024. The proposed modification would add a fifth ordering period to the current Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, add a new Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) for a fourth Gateway Mission Router (GMR) hardware variant, and increase the cost ceiling of the existing contract in response to higher than anticipated demands for the aviation GMR variant. This RFI is being issued in accordance with Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul (RFO) 15.101 and responses will be treated as information only and not as a proposal. Data and information provided in response to this RFI will be used to inform a pending sole source determination related to the execution of the proposed modification. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code associated with this action is 541512 - Computer Systems Design Services. The contract is currently being managed by Capability Portfolio Executive Ground (CPE G) Product Lead Architecture located at Fort Belvoir, VA. The GMR has been established as the common platform soldier interface for the family of Soldier Situational Awareness (SA) products/devices including, but not limited to Soldier Bourne Mission Command (SBMC), Nett Warrior (NW), Nett Warrior-Aviation (NW-A), and the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) programs that span multiple Product Management Offices (PMOs) within the CPE-GSS portfolio. Likewise, the GMR is currently being used in similar applications within CPE Command and Control Information Network (C2IN), PM Strategic and Operational Rockets and Missiles (PM STORM), and CPE Aviation. All GMR variants provide secure wireless data capability to end users. The primary role of the GMR is to enable the rapid integration of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) technologies to air/ground vehicles through high-speed Ethernet and/or secure Wi-Fi connections. The secondary role is to enable those COTS devices to receive real-time vehicle information, Command and Control (C2) information, a common tactical Situational Awareness (SA) picture, and commercial civil air traffic and weather (when enabled) that has been compiled and correlated by the GMR from its multiple datalink interfaces and ADS-B Receiver (when equipped) The GMR securely integrates with tactical Line of…
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