SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- VARIABLE STABILITY AIRCRAFT SUPPORT SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 12/17/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFFTC - AF Flight Test Center, 5 S WOLFE AVE, Edwards AFB, CA, 93524-1185
- ZIP Code
- 93524-1185
- Solicitation Number
- FA9301-04-R-0006
- Response Due
- 12/30/2003
- Point of Contact
- John Aguilar, Contract Negotiator, Phone 661-277-9519, Fax 661-275-7841, - Patrick Terry, Contract Negotiator, Phone 661-275-2538, Fax 661-275-7844,
- E-Mail Address
-
john.aguilar2@edwards.af.mil, patrick.terry@edwards.af.mil
- Description
- Description: Edwards Air Force Base, CA is seeking sources for Variable Stability Aircraft(VSA)support services to include; contractor provided aircraft; variable stability training services and flight demonstrations; Test Management Projects (TMPs); and Staff Development Projects at Edwards Air Force Base, CA and possibly at the contractor’s facility. The objective of VSA support services is to familiarize United States Air Force Test Pilot School students and staff members with various aspects of the longitudinal, lateral, and directional modes of aircraft motion. The VSA capabilities being considered are as follows: elevator, aileron, and rudder response capability equal to or greater than 60 degrees per second; greater than or equal to 10 radians per second and Dutch Roll mode frequencies greater than or equal to 5 radians per second; damping ratios capabilities shall vary from unstable configurations to highly damped configurations; normal accelerations 2.5g minimum; aircraft capability to perform simulated operations handling tasks such as aggressive air-to-air tracking or air-to-ground weapons release tasks; center stick and side stick capabilities; stick dynamics to simulate friction, preload, freeplay, nonlinear gradients, bobweights, align with the capability to implement lead and lag stick command filters plus stick command pure time delay; data acquisition, recording, and telemetry capability; sufficient seating for a safety pilot, evaluation pilot, and at least one student/staff observer; high reliability with quick maintenance turn around capabilities that will support a minimum of two sorties per day; transponder equipped with Mode 3C, and an UHF radio; fixed gun sight installed; software and hardware, programmable flight test Heads Up Display (HUD) is desired on the VSA. Contractor provided safety instructor pilots must meet the following qualifications: Letter of Authorization (LOA) from FAA or appropriate type certificate as required; Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate; Civil Flight Instructor (CFI) or prior military instructor pilot experience; current in aircraft as per Federal Aviation Regulation parts 61 and 91; qualified to instruct from left and right seats. Basic period of performance is expected to be three years, 1 Mar 2004 through 28 Feb 2007, with two one-year option periods. SIC Code is 8299. All interested offerors that possess the capabilities to perform this type of support service are requested to submit the following information: describe your firm’s capabilities to support the above described effort; business type and size (SB, SDB, 8(a), LB, etc.), whether or not these services are provided commercially and if so how are the services priced, and any alternate approaches to accomplishing the Government’s requirement. This is not a request for proposal. Please provide response via email to john.aguilar2@edwards.af.mil or via fax to 661-275-7841. Responses to this request for sources sought are requested no later than 30 Dec 2003. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (17-DEC-2003). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 30-MAR-2004, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFFTC/FA9301-04-R-0006/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 220 S. Wolfe Ave Edwards, CA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Record
- SN00557128-F 20040401/040330214009 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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