SOLICITATION NOTICE
G -- Air Force Youth Space Camp
- Notice Date
- 2/14/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 721214
— Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Randolph AFB - 12th Contracting Office, 395 B Street West Suite 2, Randolph AFB, TX, 78150-4525
- ZIP Code
- 78150-4525
- Solicitation Number
- F3PT5K5041A100
- Response Due
- 2/18/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/5/2005
- Point of Contact
- Audra Novatnak, Contract Specialist, Phone 210-652-5117, Fax 210-652-2759, - Anthony Smith, Contract Specialist, Phone 210-652-5117, Fax 210-652-2759,
- E-Mail Address
-
audra.novatnak@randolph.af.mil, anthony.smith@randolph.af.mil
- Description
- INTRODUCTION: The Family Member Program would like to meet the interest and the need to youth Air Force wide with the opportunity to participate in a space program. This unique opportunity will allow youth to learn more about space through a hands-on, educational experience. SPECIFICS OF SERVICE: Contractor will provide a residential camp schedule to begin on a Sunday and end on Friday for 32 youth ages 15 to 18 and a residential camp schedule to begin on Sunday and end on Friday for 32 youth, ages 12 to 14. Supporting two full teams of 16 for Space Academy and two full team of 16 for Advanced Space Academy. Contractor will provide this camp opportunity 31 July – 5 Aug 2005 due to available time when the participants can attend. Contractor will provide in the all-day camp schedule hands-on technical training, educational lecture sessions, and opportunity to put what they learned into a test mission. Participants will be introduced to space history, crew systems, rocketry and propulsion, space science and protein crystal growth, astronomy, and scientific principles such as Newton’s Law of Action/Reaction. Participants will work in computer laboratories, learning space station simulations as well as basic computing techniques. Contractor will provide all equipment for hands-on experience to include but not limited to: Mock up Full Scale Shuttles; Mock up Mission Control; Multi-Axis Trainer; 1/6th Gravity Chair; Manned Maneuvering Unit; Underwater Astronaut Trainer(introduction to Scuba); G-Force Accelerator; Space Shot; and Flight Simulators Contractor will provide lodging on site to fully accommodate 64 youth participants for 5 nights. Contractor will provide all meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner beginning with Sunday lunch and ending with Friday lunch. Contractor will provide lodging either on site or at a local (within 5 miles) hotel for two adult counselors for 7 nights each. Contractor will provide each participant with all necessary written materials to guide them through the week. Contractor will provide, at no extra cost to the participant, a team photo, graduation certificate, and a space encyclopedia in CD-ROM format to take home. Contractor will provide transportation for each participant throughout the week to include to and from the airport. Contractor will provide each participant a complete hands-on tour throughout the Space and Rocket Museum including the IMAX Theater. Contractor will recognize any Space Academy or Advance Space Academy participant the needed credentials to use the camp for a Space Exploration Merit Badge. PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF CONTRACTOR: Contractor must have a minimum of 20 years experience in conducting youth space camps. Contractor must use only staff that has been properly trained on site. Training which must include but not limited to: program facts and history; safety; proper discipline techniques; and age specific behavioral characteristics. Contractor must employ staff that has had a minimum of a state central clearance through the registry on child abuse and drug screening. Contactor must provide trained medical staff 24-hour-a-day, 7 days a week. Contractor must provide adult staff and separate security staff on site 24 hour-a-day, 7 days a week. Contractor will permit the use of a marketing logo, to be used in its proper contents and with the advertisement of solely this contracted program. Personnel must be able to speak, read, write and understand English. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (14-FEB-2005); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS 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/AETC/RandAFBCO/F3PT5K5041A100/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN00750977-F 20050216/050214212207 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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