MODIFICATION
A -- Provide An Enduring Highly Responsive Aviation Human Factors and Engineering Capability In Flight
- Notice Date
- 4/15/2003
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- 55 Broadway; Cambridge, MA 02142
- ZIP Code
- 02142-1093
- Solicitation Number
- DTRS57-03-R-20041
- Response Due
- 4/30/2003
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Kathleen Regan, Contracting Officer, (617) 494-3485
- E-Mail Address
-
Contracting Officer
(regan@volpe.dot.gov)
- Description
- The Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) under the U.S. Department of Transportation is being replaced by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), which were authorized on Nov. 30, 2004 when President Bush signed the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act. RSPA had two contracting offices, one at RSPAs Washington Headquarters and one at Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. For the most part, the Volpe contracting office will be the new contracting office for RITA, and the former RSPA Headquarters contracting office will be the new contracting office for PHMSA. Though the Bureau of Transportation Statistics has been reorganized under RITA, its procurement activities will continue to be serviced by the contracting office in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. More reorganization details are available at http://www.dot.gov/affairs/DOT2805.htm. and co pilot’s attitude and heading data, access to a DC databus from forward and rear baggage compartments, ability to accommodate a Polhemus Fast-Trak head tracking system and an ISCAN eyetracking system and related cameras, ability to record intercom and ATC communications, and an equipment rack suitable to the FAA Flight Standards (AC 43.13-2A) to accommodate data collection computers and monitors. In addition to the aforementioned, the aircraft shall be hangared (heated) within one hour from Cambridge, MA. It is anticipated that the Government will furnish the following property: Rockwell/Collins EMAGR prototype Wide Area Augmentation Service (WAAS) receiver, University of Oklahoma BBCOM software package and ASHTECH differential GPS system. The contractor’s aircraft must provide suppo rt (electrical, mounts, workspace etc) for this equipment and engineering support to this equipment. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Interested firms have fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of publication of this Synopsis, to submit in writing, to the identified point of contact, clear and convincing evidence of their qualifications and/or capabilities. Such qualifications and/or capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after fifteen (15) calendar days, or without the required information, will be considered non-responsive to this synopsis and will not be considered. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this synopsis and su bmittals will not be returned to the sender. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis, based upon response to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral Communications are not acceptable in response this notice. See Note 22. For future information about the Volpe Center refer to the Volpe Center website at http://www.volpe.dot.gov. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (15-APR-2003). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 20-FEB-2005, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
-
Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/DOT/RITA/VNTSC/DTRS57-03-R-20041/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00755560-F 20050222/050220212959 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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