SOLICITATION NOTICE
17 -- Air Force Airfield Automation System
- Notice Date
- 11/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Dale Pease;75 Vandenberg Dr Bldg 1630 ; Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
- ZIP Code
- 01731
- Solicitation Number
- FA8730-05-R-0002
- Description
- POC1Lt Rebbecca Drydol-Brandon, Contracts Manager, (781) 377-9303. The Global Air Traffic Operations (GATO) Mobility Command and Control System Program Office ESC/GA, at the Electronics Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, MA is seeking qualified sources for the acquisition of the Air Force Airfield Automation System (AFAS). The AFAS is a commercial off the shelf/non-developmental item system comprised of computer workstations and associated software and hardware. The AFAS shall be a fully developed data display system that, preferably, has been previously fielded and requires minimal adaptation to handle Air Force weather data inputs. AFAS must consolidate multiple airfield displays and control units to transmit, receive and display weather and airfield data from multiple sources. AFAS should also provide monitoring and control capability for radio navigation aids, airfield lighting, and remote video cameras. Data from the system will be disseminated over a local area network (LAN) to workstations located in air traffic control towers and the Radar Approach Control (RAPCON) Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) rooms. The AFAS shall accept and display weather and airport environmental data from both existing sensor systems and from manually keyed inputs; the system must accept and display wind speed and direction, digital altimeter, and free text data from local on-site weather sources. As an objective, the system should accept and display weather alerts, warning, and advisories from local and remote site weather sources, wind speed and direction, digital altimeter and free text data from remote site weather sources (i.e., Automated Surface Observation System (ASOS) and Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS)). The AFAS shall accept and display: video from a remote camera feed; automated Airport Terminal Information Service (ATIS) through New Tactical Forecast System (NTFS); and digital time, in both Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and local time. The AFAS should accept and display Navigational Aid (NAVAID) status via both electronic interface and manual input. As an objective, the system should provide monitoring and control of NAVAID functions via direct interface to the NAVAIDS. Additional AFAS objectives include: NEXRAD interface and NOTAM processing; airfield lighting control; interface to Flight Data Input/Output (FDIO); and display of airfield environment and equipment status such as runway / taxiway closures, barrier status, equipment outages. The AFAS must provide electronic media storage and retrieval of position logs, daily operations logs, Flight Instrument Publications (FLIP) charts, site dependent data, and system status reports. The system must provide the capability for users to input and display free text information. The AFAS displays must be visible in both daylight and reduced lighting conditions to accommodate use in control towers and radar facilities. The system must support up to 24 workstations in large facilities, 12 in medium facilities, and 6 in small facilities. As an objective, the system will support 50 workstations in large, 24 in medium, and 6 in small facilities. The AFAS availability requirement is 99%; system Mean Time Between Critical Failure (MTBCF) requirement is 5,000 hrs or more; system Mean Repair Time (MRT) shall not exceed 0.5 hrs; Mean Time To Restore System (MTTRS) shall be less than or equal to 6 hours. Maximum Repair Time (MaxRT) must be less than or equal to 1.5 hrs. Required Scheduled Maintenance shall not exceed two (2) hours, once a quarter, with less than or equal to 0.5 hours per event. As an objective, the system will incorporate Built-in Test/Fault Isolation capable of detecting and isolating 90% of all faults in automatic mode, and 98% of all faults in automatic with manual action mode, to a single LRU; Fault Isolation and Detection using all means will be 100% down to the Line Replacement Unit (LRU). The system must incorporate a ?fail soft? capability so as to limit the possibility of a total system-level outage (note: individual workstations do not require a fail soft capability, as the mission can continue by use of other workstations in the facility). As an objective, the system should automatically recover from degraded modes without the need to ?reboot? the entire system or otherwise make the entire system unavailable to users. Data processing delays must not exceed 1.5 seconds for operations internal to the airfield automation system (note: this requirement does not include internet-related response times nor the length of time it takes for remote sensors to process and transmit information to the airfield automation system or respond to requests generated by the airfield automation system). The AFAS shall contain provisions for an optional conditioned uninterruptible power system (UPS) for sites, which do not have facility power condition systems/UPS available. The AFAS shall incorporate a password protection scheme; the system must assign a separate and unique-user identifier and password to each user. The AFAS must be delivered with complete technical/maintenance documentation.. Optional technical support for the AFAS, and contractor training, are desired. Other topics of concern are delivery availability, cost, and maintenance support. The Government is interested in procuring systems that will support the installation of 652 user workstations in 44 RAPCONs and 54 remote Towers over a period of three years, from FY 2005 through FY2007. A comprehensive statement of AFAS performance requirements will be available on ESC?s Business Opportunities Website (http://herbb.hanscom.af.mil) on or about 6 Dec 2004. To be considered qualified to meet the AFAS requirement, interested companies must submit information detailing their capabilities/experience that comply with the following criteria: (1) ? (XX), as needed to assess qualified of interested sources. Interested firms must provide two copies of their qualification package detailing your specific capabilities to meet the above stated criteria to ESC/GAK, 75 Vandenberg Drive, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2103, Attn:1Lt Rebbecca Drydol-Brandon (Rebbecca.Brandon@hanscom.af.mil). Limit your qualification package to a maximum of 15 pages. Your responses must provide specific information about the system you would propose to provide, including technical capabilities to meet the basic and objective technical requirements, an availability schedule, and any other information required to address the specific qualification criteria specified above. Responses are requested no later than 1:00 pm EST on 21 Dec 2004. Facsimile (781) 377-9300 or e-mail (Rebbecca.Brandon@hanscom.af.mil) responses are acceptable. Responses should include the company name, address, size of business (i.e., large business, small business, small disadvantaged business, 8(a) concern, veteran-owned small business, service-connected veteran-owned small business, women-owned business, or HUBZone small business), whether a U.S. or foreign owned entity, and a company point of contact. This notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal; it does not restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach, nor should it be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any cost associated with submission of the information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred to interested parties for responses to this survey.
- Web Link
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Air Force Airfield Automation System
(http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil/esc_opps.asp?rfp=R964)
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- SN00712261-W 20041125/041123211846 (fbodaily.com)
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