SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- SOURCES SOUGHT TO PROVIDE AN ENDURING HIGHLY RESPONSIVE AVIATION HUMAN FACTORS AND ENGINEREING CAPABILITY IN FLIGHT
- Notice Date
- 3/27/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- 55 Broadway; Cambridge, MA 02142
- ZIP Code
- 02142
- Solicitation Number
- DTRS57-98-SS-0431
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Kathleen Regan, Contracting Officer, (617) 494-3485
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Contracting Officer
(regan@volpe.dot.gov)
- Description
- NA The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) conducts a variety of Human Factors and Engineering Studies. This serves as a revision to sought notice Sources Sought No. DTRS57-98-SS-0428, to acquire the field support to provide highly responsive human factors and engineering capability. The contractor will supply engineering services and a Piper Aztec F Twin Engine Aircraft engineering services. The contractor shall provide an engineer/pilot with BSEE, CFII/MEI ratings that can provide engineering support to the Government as well as pilot services on the aircraft. Greater than 4000 hours total flight time with 2000 hours multiengine and 1000 hours in type are required. The engineer/pilot shall supply support for the existing installed equipment as well as en gineering services to design, develop and integrate hardware and software to implement research objectives. The contractor shall also support the planning and execution of human factors research tasks. At least five years in the detailed design and development of analog and digital hardware, software and data analysis for human factors research work is required. This activity involves considerable remote site work in the US. Therefore, the engineer/pilot must be competent to personally perform all the above efforts. Aircraft (Piper Aztec F Twin Engine) Configuration: Standard IFR instrumentation including: Slaved Horizontal Situation, Indicator (HIS), Dual glideslopes, three navcom transceivers, Audio panel that supports three Nav/Coms, Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), marker beac on receiver, six place intercom, active noise cancellation for all six seats, full set of copilot instruments in standard T configuration, slaved directional gyro for the copilot, copilot brakes, two axis coupled autopilot, Mode S transponder, storm scope, certification for flight in known icing conditions, long range fuel tanks, extended overwater equipment including rafts and lifejackets to accommodate crew and passengers, electric pitch and electric aileron trim, and the following special instrumentation/capabilities: Shadin Digidata air data computer FAA Capstone configuration of the UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT) MX-20 multi-function display, UPSAT Chartview capability for the MX20, IFR installation of the UPSAT GX60 GPS receiver, UPSAT Universal Access Transceiver for Automatic De pendant Surveillance, IFR installation of a Garmin 430 GPS receiver, IFR installation of a King KLN89B GPS receiver, switching capability for each GPS to the autopilot and MX20 multi-function display, support for the Rockwell/Collins EMAGR prototype Wide Area Augmentation Service (WAAS) receiver, (No drawings are available), support for the University of Oklahoma BBCOM software package to communicate with the EMAGR, support for an ASHTECH differential GPS system, OMNISTAR GPS antennas, a dome mount on the aircraft to facilitate various GPS antenna installations, Certified 750 watt 115 VAC inverter, a isolated 28V Engineering DC Power buss, remote data collection ports for each GPS, the Shadin Digidata, CDI and Glide slope data and copilot?s attitude and heading data, access to a DC datab us from forward and rear baggage compartments, ability to accommodate a Polhemus Fast-Trak head tracking system and an ISCAN eyetracking system and related cameras, ability to record intercom and ATC communications, and an equipment rack suitable to the FAA Flight Standards (AC 43.13-2A) to accommodate data collection computers and monitors. In addition to the aforementioned, the aircraft shall be hangared (heated) within one hour from Cambridge, MA. It is anticipated that the Government will furnish the following property: Rockwell/Collins EMAGR prototype Wide Area Augmentation Service (WAAS) receiver, University of Oklahoma BBCOM software package and ASHTECH differential GPS system. The contractor?s aircraft must provide support (electrical, mounts, workspace etc) for this equipmen t and engineering support to this equipment. The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code for this acquisition is 541990 and the small business size standard is $6.0 Million. Interested firms having the capability and background in all of the above requirements must submit substantiating data to the above address within 15 calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. Replies must reference the sources sought number and PR No. 79-3254. This is not a request for proposal (RFP), invitation for bid (IFB), or an announcement of a solicitation and no solicitation package exists at this time. The sources sought announcement is requested for informational purposes only. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this synop sis and submittals will not be returned to the sender. For future information about the Volpe Center refer to the Volpe Center website at http://www.volpe.dot.gov.
- Web Link
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Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page
(http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html)
- Record
- SN00289243-W 20030329/030327213307 (fbodaily.com)
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