SPECIAL NOTICE
16 -- VARIABLE SPEED/VARIABLE DRAG DROGUE
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2006
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 336413
— Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, ASC - Aeronautical Systems Center, 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433-7218, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-0001
- Response Due
- 12/11/2006
- Archive Date
- 12/26/2006
- Description
- 668th Aeronautical Systems Squadron Request for Information (RFI) Pursuant to FAR 15.209(c) Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997) a. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. b. Although proposal and offeror are used in this RFI, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. c. Aeronautical Systems Center?s 668th Aeronautical Systems Squadron is issuing this RFI for the purpose of conducting market research to address the need for a variable speed/variable drag drogue (VSD/VDD) to replace the low-speed drogue (100-130 knots) and high-speed drogue (185-250 knots) currently installed as part of the Sargent Fletcher 4800 Series Air Refueling Pod on MC-130E and MC-130P aircraft operated by Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). Responses to this RFI must, as a minimum, identify solutions that fulfill the speed regime required (100-215 knots) and provide a stable platform for air refueling, as performed by the existing fleet. d. Concept solution should provide forces with the capability to conduct in-flight refueling of all probe equipped rotary wing and vertical lift assets. e. The support and deployment concepts include the capability to operate from main operating bases, forward operating bases, and forward operating locations. f. The concept solution should be capable of refueling probe-equipped rotary wing or tilt-rotor aircraft at airspeeds between 100-215 knots without reconfiguring the system (to included ground and/or airborne reconfiguration of the drogue); refueling speeds up to 250 knots are of interest. g. Request that respondents provide a description of the proposed concept solutions relative to this requirement; and also include a brief synopsis of your manufacturing experience, production capacity, aircraft modification experience, software development and integration experience, and systems engineering capabilities, with initial deliveries commencing in first quarter of FY2008. For informational purposes only, assume six deliveries in the first quarter of production year. Responses should be received by 1200 EST, 11 December, 2006. h. Responses, in the form of one electronic and one paper copy, should be sent to: Mr. John R. Shock, Contracting Officer, email address: John.Shock@wpafb.af.mil. Mailing address is 668 ABSS/PK, 1895 Fifth Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7200.
- Record
- SN01184827-W 20061123/061121220531 (fbodaily.com)
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