SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- Air Traffic Technical Assessment
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, AGL-55B Great Lakes Region (AGL)
- ZIP Code
- 60018
- Solicitation Number
- 2443
- Response Due
- 5/30/2002
- Archive Date
- 6/29/2002
- Point of Contact
- Kathy Thomas, 414-486-2960
- E-Mail Address
-
kathy.e.thomas@faa.gov
(kathy.e.thomas@faa.gov)
- Description
- This announcement is “For Planning Purposes Only.” In April 1996, Administrator Garvey announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would begin a comprehensive review and redesign of the United States airspace. Since that time, the nine FAA regions have worked toward developing an airspace structure and concomitant air traffic control procedures that will enhance safety; balance pilot/controller workload; increase efficiency for our customers, the flying public; and provide optimal environmental benefits for citizens who underlie the airspace structure. While each of the nine regions are responsible for developing an airspace structure and air traffic control procedures within their delegated portion of the national airspace, all regions are responsible for ensuring that their new airspace design/procedures coincide with the airspace/procedures developed by abutting regions. Thus far, the Eastern Region has made the most progress in this endeavor. Parts of the Great Lakes Region abut Eastern Region as well as! Canadian airspace. It is expected that the Eastern Region will announce their New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia airspace redesign plan in the near future. It will be necessary for the Great Lakes Region to support their redesign and could result in airspace/procedures changes within the Great Lakes airspace, including enroute, terminal, and special use airspace. On June 29, 2001, the City of Chicago announced a future long-range concept for O’Hare Airport. The concept includes reconfiguration of the existing seven active runways, with the addition of one runway and the relocation of three of the current runways in which six runways would be oriented in an east/west direction and other runways would be closed. At the present time, the FAA is working with the City of Chicago toward preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) to examine the environmental effects of the concept plan. Construction of new runways at O’Hare Airport could require that airspace/procedural changes be made in the Chicago area airspace to accommodate them. This may be true for the final construction design as well as interim construction phases as present day runways are closed and new runways are built. As such, the Chicago airspace area may undergo several changes as construction proceeds along its various phases. In turn, the changes to the Chicago area airspace may affect National Airspace Redesign efforts for both the Great Lakes and Eastern Regions. The FAA is seeking information from qualified firms interested in assisting them to prepare a technical assessment document which will; 1) detail the airspace/procedures necessary for the Chicago area airspace in support of the City of Chicago’s final runway construction plan, as well as any interim airspace/procedures which may be necessary during the various construction phases; 2) examine if the airspace/procedures necessary for the city’s runway construction project are operationally compatible with the changes the National Airspace Redesign team has planned for the Great Lakes Region; 3) examine if the airspace/procedures in the Great Lakes integrated design plan are compatible with the formal Eastern Region New York/New Jersey/ Philadelphia redesign; and 4) if not compatible, detail how to make them compatible. The firm selected for these tasks will also be responsible for assisting the FAA in deciding the best means by which to examine the various operational changes! from an environmental perspective. This may include identification of the documentation (i.e., EA, EIS) necessary to disclose the environmental effects of the various airspace/procedural projects, devising a phased approach to examine the environmental effects of the various project components on a cumulative basis, and devising a timeline for the environmental process. The selected firm must be thoroughly familiar with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for Implementing the Provisions of NEPA, and applicable state environmental laws. The firm must also have knowledge of airport development, noise abatement initiatives for project area airports, and planning activities at project area airports. Interested firms should submit the following information: 1) a description of the firm listing the locations of major offices; 2) professionals on staff with actual experience evaluating airspace/air traffic control procedures from an operational and environmental perspective; 3) Evidence that professionals on staff have experience with enroute, terminal, and special use airspace projects; 4) a description of the environmental projects underway or completed by the firm which have involved primarily airspace/air traffic control procedures and/or major airports; 5) evidence that staff professionals are familiar with operational and environmental evaluation of several airports simultaneously, or large airspace areas; and 6) evidence that staff professionals have experience with airport/airspace modeling and correlation of airport/airspace modeling with noise modeling. At a minimum, interested firms should provide the following information: client’s name, title, address, telephone number; name of FAA or other individual who supervised the firm’s work for each project; airport name and/or location and size of the airspace area for each project; date(s) of local, state, or federal approvals; and a statement of any unique features of the studies. The FAA reserves the right to contact any of the named individuals to determine performance on the listed projects. After screening this information for qualified candidates, the Contracting Officer shall submit to those candidates the full scope of work for the project. The FAA may or may not use any or all the information obtained through this notice. It is important to note that successful completion of the work associated with this announcement could result in a contract for additional environmental work (i.e., assisting the FAA in preparing an EA, EIS) with regard to the aforementioned airspace/air traffic procedure projects. Information should be sent to the following mailing address: Federal Aviation Administration Attn: Kathy Thomas 4915 South Howell Avenue, 4th Floor Milwaukee, WI 53207 Telephone: 414-486-2960 Fax: 414-486-2921 NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (29-APR-2002). IT ACTUALLY FIRST APPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 10-MAY-2002. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Record
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