SOLICITATION NOTICE
V -- Utility, Fixed Wing Aircraft Services
- Notice Date
- 5/15/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Acquisition and Cost Support, DACS, 4201 Wilson Boulevard Room 475, Arlington, VA, 22230
- ZIP Code
- 22230
- Solicitation Number
- DACS-030043
- Response Due
- 7/3/2003
- Point of Contact
- Kristin Spencer, Contract Specialist, Phone (703) 292-4585, Fax (703) 292-9140/9141, - Bart Bridwell, Contract Specialist, Phone (703) 292-4593, Fax (703) 292-9140/9141,
- E-Mail Address
-
kspencer@nsf.gov, bbridwel@nsf.gov
- Description
- The National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for utility, medium-lift, fixed-wing flight services from ski-equipped DeHavilland DHC-6 “Twin Otter” or equivalent aircraft to support its polar research programs; i.e., the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), and the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Program. The USAP is this nation’s national program of scientific research in Antarctica, and includes the activities of NSF and other U.S. Government agencies. NSF is one of many U.S. Government agencies conducting scientific research in the Arctic. NSF sponsored researchers have conducted research activities in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia, and within Scandinavia, often in cooperation with institutions and researchers in those countries and regions. In the Antarctic, operations will be staged primarily from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, employing a “hub-and-spoke” operational design. Annually, approximately nine hundred flight hours over a ninety-four day exclusive use period, from early November through early February of the following year, are planned. Flights to and from U.S. and other national program bases, field camps, and/or various research stations within Antarctica will be scheduled. Search and rescue missions, and operations for extended periods from locations other than McMurdo Station are also required. All labor, aircraft equipment (except for certain support equipment) and materials necessary to operate and maintain a three aircraft fleet will be contractor furnished, including full spares package, and field equipment (e.g., cargo nets, tie-down straps, tool kit, and survival kit, and other consumables). The Government will supply berthing, meals, fuel, and certain support equipment. In the Arctic, flight services requirements are intermittent, and may be required at any time of the year. Services are occasionally required in Alaska, but the most concentrated effort is support of ocean sampling sites in a broad region between the Canadian Forces Station Alert and the North Pole. This work occurs for several weeks duration between March and May of each year and involves transportation of science teams and their equipment between sea ice field sites. In Greenland the work occurs throughout the year but mostly between May and August, and involves ferrying field teams to and around the Greenland Ice Cap. The contractor will provide all labor, aircraft and field equipment, materials, fuel, supplies, and consumables. Approximately one hundred-fifty flight hours annually are anticipated. As noted, the primary role for the aircraft in both theaters of operation will be for “utility” transportation services, ferrying personnel and materials to remote, often unprepared, field locations. However, at least one of the aircraft will be configured with a downward-looking port, wing hard-points and in-wing cable raceways to allow the aircraft to be used for remote sensing activities to include: aerogeophysical surveys, aerial photography, LIDAR and remote digital mapping, and the operation of ice-penetrating radar systems. An additional special requirement will be the ability to fly a towed (cable-deployed) magnetometer for aeromagnetic surveys. This acquisition is unrestricted. NSF anticipates publishing the RFP on May 30, 2003. A pre-proposal conference is tentatively planned for early or mid-June. Details will be published in the solicitation. Proposals are due on July 3, 2003. Contract award is expected prior to December 23, 2003, with an effective date of January 15, 2004. A fixed price contract, with a 45-day phase-in period, and a core performance period of 36 months is contemplated, with four award term incentives of 12 months each. The total performance period, including award term incentives, is 85.5 months. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (15-MAY-2003). IT ACTUALLY FIRST APPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 21-JUL-2003. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/NSF/DCPO/CPO/DACS-030043/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00376944-F 20030723/030721221516 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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