SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION
- Notice Date
- 2/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFFTC - AF Flight Test Center, 5 S WOLFE AVE, Edwards AFB, CA, 93524-1185, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 93524-1185
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F1S0AF6116B001
- Response Due
- 3/9/2007
- Point of Contact
- Erica Harris, Contract Specialist, Phone 661-277-9568, Fax 661-275-7818, - Barbara Barcelona, Contracting Officer, Phone 661-277-3524, Fax 661-275-9613
- E-Mail Address
-
erica.harris@edwards.af.mil, barbara.barcelona@edwards.af.mil
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT WITH EMC Corporation. The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Directorate of Contracting, Edwards Air Force Base, California, intends to award a sole source, commercial, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with EMC Corporation, Irvine, CA, for instrumentation and other types of application systems support of the Instrumentation Loading, Integration, Analysis, and Decommutation (ILIAD) Toolset. ILIAD, developed by EMC, is designed to leverage a central Enterprise-level database repository for the support of telemetry transmission and receiving system related applications including transmitters, transceivers, and antennas, and other systems utilizing similar paradigms. A NOCA was originally published on 8 March 2006 under Reference Number F1S0AF5229B001. The requirements for the Common Mission Debrief Program (CMDP) as well as equipment for new data storage systems have been removed from this acquisition. The AFFTC currently has the following requirements: --- Replacement parts for Data General Corporation MV (Elipse line of computers), AV (AViiON line of computers), MRC (Message Base Reliable Channel), and CLARiiON storage equipment for use with Data General components. --- EMC product line including the EMC Symmetrix, Avalon, Celerra, Connectrix, Centera, and Select lines of equipment, all interfacing support hardware/software and associated systems and distribution software. --- Diagnostic licenses for equipment listed above, diagnostic subscription service, field change orders, field alert bulletins and related on and off-site technical services to support various programs utilizing Instrumentation Loading, Integration, Analysis and Decommutation (ILIAD) systems. - See attached ILIAD Product Suites Summary --- Technical services in support of above listed equipment and ILIAD to include systems analyst support and telephone support 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. --- Capability to add new, upgraded or modified lines of EMC equipment and associated peripherals produced by EMC and other manufacturers. This does not include equipment for new data storage systems. --- On-site field engineering technical support for software and hardware referenced in this document; software requirements elicitation, documentation, and analysis; software enhancement, software and hardware configuration management and other software services to develop and maintain software applications and systems that operate and interface on and within the DoD WAN and LAN infrastructure. --- Capability to complete DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation (DoDM 8510.1-M) processes for required developed applications. --- Field engineering technical support, software design, development engineering and software services to develop and maintain configuration control management on the ILIAD Toolset. --- Capability to generate and load instrumentation system program files for Teletronics Telemetry Corporation (TTC), Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and L-3 Com Corporation (Corp.) airborne instrumentation data acquisition systems (requires knowledge and access to each vendors technical specifications needed to program each product line). --- Program and display real-time test data from telemetry data processor hardware currently supported by ILIAD to include hardware by Acromatics Corporation, TTC, Lumistar Corp., and SBS Corp. --- Analyze and troubleshoot problems using preflight tools. Validate and process data (that was recorded IAW Range Commanders Council Inter-Range Instrumentation (IRIG) standard 106 using the Quick-Look System. --- Maintain the legacy UNIX based Test Instrumentation Management System (TIMS) to the specifications defined by DoD ACAT 1C/D programs and to the IRIG specification, processing category I and II data streams. --- Develop, enhance, train and maintain the Quick Look Software (QLS) which is used to provide a way to process and review test data. This capability ensures test objectives are being met. The by-product for utilizing this software is reduction in test program costs and schedule. --- Integrate, support and obtain software and distribution rights for EMC's Enterprise Test Data Management System (E-TDMS). This is a product framework focused on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) of instrumented test data (such as flight test data, telemetry-based measurements, meta data, project history and data libraries.). E-TDMS is designed to ensure availability and data integrity of all test project data ensuring all issues that surround storing, managing, retrieving, sharing and distributing test center data is addressed. --- Providing data security to DoD specifications while providing authentication, authorization, access control, and digital rights management as well as providing a records management application (RMA) as defined by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and fast online access and petabyte scalability for fixed content assets like PCM data, video data, IRIG 106 Chapter 10 data, proprietary flight data, documents, designs, etc. --- Purchase or obtain software rights to EMCs proprietary software diagnostics software tools and appropriate licenses to maintain any and all of the products listed. --- Provide a corporate cadre of telemetry and software experts skilled in Range Commanders Council IRIG principles and Major Test Range Facility Base telemetry practices which will present no learning curve delays to any test mission schedule. --- Develop, enhance and maintain mobile telemetry support hardware as required by the different test projects. Site locations will include but are not limited to: AFFTC, Edwards AFB, CA; AAC, Eglin AFB, FL; 53 TW, Barksdale AFB, LA; ATTC, Fort Rucker, AL; White Sands Missile Range, NM; SPAWAR, San Diego, CA, and detachments or units thereof. EMC is the contractor for the current contract (F04700-02-D-0005) in support of the ILIAD Toolset. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this proposed sole source contract action, however, this notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. All proposals received within 15 days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) is 541511 and the small business size standard is $23 Million. All interested parties who believe they can meet the requirement are invited to submit in writing complete information describing their ability to provide the supplies and services requested above. Firms responding must identify their company?s capabilities to perform the requirements described herein, business size and category (i.e. SB, SDB, WO, etc.). Responses shall be limited to 15 pages and should include, as a minimum, (1) evidence of past experience; (2) related projects and/or existing systems, etc; and (3) business size as described above. Response to this notice must be provided to Wendy Harris at the 412th Test Wing/PKDD, Directorate of Contracting, 5 S. Wolfe Ave, Edwards AFB CA, 93524 by 9 March 2007. Information can be faxed to 661-277-0470 or emailed to erica.harris@edwards.af.mil. NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (23-FEB-2007). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 03-OCT-2007, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Edwards AFB, CA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 93524
- Record
- SN01428380-F 20071005/071003224924 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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