SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) Web-Based Application Tool (ASAP/WBAT) Support. - Market Survey
- Notice Date
- 5/5/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, AJA-48 FAA Headquarters (ASU)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DTFAWA-06-R-02968
- Response Due
- 5/12/2006
- Archive Date
- 6/11/2006
- Description
- Market Survey Capability Assessment Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) Web-Based Application Tool (ASAP/WBAT) Support The FAA intends to award a contract for technical support services, including management, materials, and travel, to continue the design, development, implementation, operations, deployment, assessment, sustainment, and evolution of a secure, web-based data acquisition and information management system for ASAP participants, referred to as the ASAP Web-Based Application Tool (ASAP/WBAT). The proof-of-concept IFQASys ASAP effort and lessons learned form the basis for this solicitation and serve as the foundation for WBAT. This announcement is a Market Survey/Request for Information. A draft Statement of Work (SOW) is attached to this announcement. The purpose of this announcement is to solicit comments from potential offerors. The FAA is seeking interested sources that believe that they are able to perform the specific services outlined in the draft SOW and as specifically identified in the Task Order. Background: In order to maintain a high level of aviation safety, the FAA has established several voluntary partnership programs under which various operators and their employees can self-report safety concerns and events. Among these programs, one of the most important is the ASAP. The information collected by this program is used by ASAP participating Part 121 and 135 air carriers, fractional operator programs, repair stations, manufacturers, airport authorities, and the FAA to identify and correct individual employee, individual operators, industry wide safety, and National Airspace System (NAS) issues. The ASAP enhances safety by providing better insight into operations in order to identify potential precursors to incidents and accidents and to mitigate the associated risk. Under the ASAP, the FAA provides enforcement related incentives (administrative action in lieu of legal enforcement action) for employee self-reporting of violations. Since 1991, over 47 ASAP Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) have been established with Part 121 and Part 135 certificate holders, and over 100,000 ASAP reports have been submitted by airline flight crews, flight attendants, dispatchers, and maintenance and engineering employees. ASAP reports provide insights into the causality of adverse safety events and allow individual air carriers to identify and correct their own safety problems. Since 80% of the ASAP reports are sole source, the ASAP allows the FAA to obtain safety information not available through traditional FAA oversight. The policy guidance provided in the ASAP Advisory Circular (AC 120-66B) specifies that the ASAP Event Review Committee (ERC) must maintain a database of all reports submitted and the disposition of those reports. To that end, a proof-of-concept version of the Integrated Flight Quality Analysis System (IFQASys) for ASAP was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of a web-based application to support this database requirement for interested participants in the FAA's ASAP. Currently, six airlines are using IFQASys ASAP for submission, management, and analysis of their ASAP reports to facilitate early discovery of operational safety and high risk issues that need to be addressed before they lead to incidents and accident. IFQASys ASAP also provides tools to manage the processing and disposition of submitted reports and their transformation into a database repository. By providing a consistent data formats, naming standards, categorization taxonomies, and exchange protocols, IFQASys ASAP has the potential to facilitate information sharing between carriers in order to identify industry wide problems that cannot be solved at the local level.
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FAA Contract Opportunities
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- Record
- SN01042702-W 20060507/060505221641 (fbodaily.com)
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