SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Variable Stability Aircraft Support Services
- Notice Date
- 10/1/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- 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-0007
- Response Due
- 10/8/2004
- Archive Date
- 10/23/2004
- Description
- Notice of Contract Action. Edwards Air Force Base, CA has a requirement for Variable Stability Aircraft (VSA) support services. The Government requirements will include; contractor provided aircraft; variable stability training services and flight demonstrations; Test Management Projects (TMPs); and Staff Development Projects. 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. The proposed contract action is for service for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source (ADVANCED INFORMATION ENGINEERING SERVICES, INC., 4455 GENESEE STREET, BUFFALO, NY, 14225-1928, Phone: (716) 631-6807) under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 (a) (1). Interested offerors must provide adequate information describing their capability to meet the requirements stated above to this office by 08 Oct 2004. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Please provide any responses via e-mail to steven.barry@edwards.af.mil or via fax to 661-275-7838.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 220 S. Wolfe Ave, Edwards AFB CA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Record
- SN00687762-W 20041003/041001211732 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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