SOURCES SOUGHT
18 -- Aerospace Fusion Center Continuation Effort
- Notice Date
- 5/1/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, SMC - Space and Missiles System Center, 2420 Vela Way, Suite 1467, El Segundo, CA, 90245-4659
- ZIP Code
- 90245-4659
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-55
- Archive Date
- 5/27/2003
- Point of Contact
- Melissa Applebaum, Contracting Officer, Phone (310) 363-2198, Fax null, - Janice Smets, Buyer, Phone (310) 363-1491, Fax null,
- E-Mail Address
-
melissa.applebaum@losangeles.af.mil, janice.smets@losangeles.af.mil
- Description
- The Space and Missile Center intends to contract for continuation of the Aerospace Fusion Center (AFC) operations and maintenance support. The incumbent contractor currently performing this effort under Defense Support Program (DSP) Contract F04701-96-C-0031 is Northrup Grumman Electronic Systems (NGES), 1100 West Hollyvale Street, Azusa, California 91702. The current AFC contractual coverage expires on 30 Sep 2003. To maintain continuity for a future AFC requirement, an additional two years of contractor support for the continued operations and maintenance support to the AFC system is required. The requirement consists of seamlessly extending support for AFC, supporting exercises/special events, remote fusion activities, providing operational performance assessment, mission performance improvement, software prototype development, testing, installation and turning of system algorithms. This includes operating and maintaining a development facility located at the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC) at Schriever AFB, CO, that provides data connectivity on a 5-day per week, 8-hour per day schedule, with possible variable hours to meet operational support requirements. The contractor personnel who operate and maintain the AFC are required to have current TS/SCI security clearances and must be cleared at the appropriate program level clearance. NGES, as the manufacturer for the DSP sensor and developer of the software, is qualified to continue the development and enhancement of this product in a timely and cost-effective manner. NGES has access to engineering information not available in existing Government specifications, drawings and manuals, as well as the telemetry data, communication lines and a special compartmentalized information facility (SCIF) which are key components for meeting the operational mandates. The period of performance for the extension effort will commend on or before 01 Oct 2003. This synopsis is a notice of intent to transfer the AFC effort from the DSP Contract F04701-96-C-0003 to the Space Tracking and Surveillance Contract (STSS) Contract F04701-02-C-0009 and shall not be considered a request for offers. However, interested parties are invited to submit a statement of technical capabilities not to exceed ten pages that includes the following information: 1) Company name, mailing address, points of contact and telephone numbers; 2) Business size classification, Large, Small or Other; 3) Experience in operation and maintaining the continual development of Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Increment One Based (MDI) software and the multi-Source Fusion Engine (MSFE) software which includes NGES's MASTER (MASINT (Measurements and Signatures INTelligence) Analysis Software Tools for Enhanced Reporting and AWARE (Advanced Web-Accessible Reporting Environment) proprietary products on the hardware platforms located at the AFC facility; 4) The facilities to work at the appropriate security levels. Statement of Capabilities are due 12 May 2003. The Government will not pay any costs associated with preparation of Statement of Capabilities. All written responses shall be submitted to SMC/MTKD, 2420 Vela Way Suite 1467, El Segundo, CA 90245-4695, Attn: Ms. Melissa Applebaum, Contracting Officer. Direct technical questions to Mr. Michael Ross, (310) 363-5887 and contractual questions to Ms. Melissa Applebaum. Note 26.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Joint National Integration Center, Schriever AFB, CO
- Record
- SN00316099-W 20030503/030502073813 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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