SOURCES SOUGHT
15 -- COTS/GOTS Aircraft
- Notice Date
- 3/28/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 336411
— Aircraft Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, 366 CONS, 366 Gunfighter Ave Ste 498, Mountain Home AFB, ID, 83648-5296
- ZIP Code
- 83648-5296
- Solicitation Number
- AWB-AIRCRAFT-RFI
- Response Due
- 4/23/2005
- Archive Date
- 5/8/2005
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE AVAILABLE. This is a request for information only as defined in FAR 15.201(e). The government does not presently intend to award a contract, but wants to obtain information on commercially available applications. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Air Warfare Battlelab (AWB), Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, is planning to conduct a study that will evaluate commercial options to solve the following problem: Currently, United States Air Force employs various types of combat aircraft around the world to support steady state and contingency operations. Typically these aircraft are very expensive to procure and operate. The current combat aircraft in the inventory have been designed with specific capabilities for specific missions. The operational flight programs are very often proprietary in nature and expensive and timely to update. The AWB is interested in existing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) or Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) aircraft that could be used as-is to perform the low threat missions that do not warrant using F-16?s, F-15?s, A-10?s or other expensive assets. Such missions may be: Non Traditional Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, Counter Insurgency, Counter Narcotics, Homeland Defense, etc. These attributes are of specific interest: 1. Low initial procurement cost. (less than 5 million). 2. Open architecture, No proprietary software; COTS & GOTS communication interfaces, ethernet and 1553 BUS to weapons stations. 3. Capability to operate from unimproved airfields, dirt strips. 4. Very fuel efficient compared to F-15, F-16, and A-10 5. Night vision goggle compatible cockpit. 6. Two place configuration. These attributes are considered beneficial: 1. Cockpit protection against small arms fire 2. Supported by existing USAF ground support equipment 3. Ejection seats 4. Single and two place configurations. 5. Have self protection suite i.e. chaff, flares. The AWB is seeking the following specific information from industry representatives: 1. The manufacturers suggested retail price for the aircraft. 2. The name of distributors who could sell to the Government. 3. The degree to which the product can meet or exceed the above items of specific interest and beneficial attributes of the USAF. 4. Interest to conduct a tactical demonstration of your aircraft. Requested information must be submitted NO LATER THAN 23 Apr 05 to Lt Col William Sobrero, Air Warfare Battlelab, 360 Gunfighter Ave, Suite 1, Mountain Home AFB, ID 83648. Lt Col Sobrero can be reached at (208) 828-3506; william.sobrero@mountainhome.af.mil. A formal solicitation MAY NOT BE ISSUED as a result of this RFI. Information provided may or may not be included in a formal solicitation. The USAF will not release any information -- marked with a Proprietary legend -- received in response to this RFI to any firms, agencies, or individuals outside the USAF without written permission in accordance with the legend.
- Record
- SN00777041-W 20050330/050328211752 (fbodaily.com)
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