SOLICITATION NOTICE
69 -- 69-- Drones; simulation and curriculum equipment.
- Notice Date
- 9/17/2021 1:01:21 PM
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- W6QM MICC-FT DRUM FORT DRUM NY 13602-5220 USA
- ZIP Code
- 13602-5220
- Solicitation Number
- TRADOCUSSCCJW0005
- Response Due
- 9/20/2021 1:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 03/19/2022
- Point of Contact
- Name: Marketplace Support, Title: Marketplace Support, Phone: 1.877.933.3243, Fax: 703.422.7822, Email: MarketplaceSupport@unisonglobal.com;
- E-Mail Address
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- Small Business Set-Aside
- SBA Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The solicitation number is TRADOCUSSCCJW0005 and is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ), unless otherwise indicated herein. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2021-07. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 511210 with a small business size standard of $38.50M. This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified sellers may submit bids. The solicitation pricing on www.UnisonMarketplace.com will start on the date this solicitation is posted, and, unless otherwise displayed at www.UnisonMarketplace.com, will end on: 2021-09-20 16:00:00.0 Eastern Time. This time supersedes the Offers Due Time listed above. FOB Destination shall be in the Place of Performance. The MICC End User requires the following items, Brand Name or Equal, to the following: LI 001: Requested Specification: Requested Specification: 1200 Brand Name or Equal to Unmanned Safety Institute, Inc. Online Curriculum, Digital textbooks ISBN 978-0-9987295-1-0,workbooks ISBN 978-0-99872954-1, and test codes for online testing and certifications. The Contractor shall provide an online, self-paced interactive learning program that provides students core knowledge and practical skills in drone regulations and operations. The curriculum must include training modules and labs in the following areas: (1) Instruction to prepare students to take and pass the FAR Part 107 exam. -FAA rules and regulations pertaining to commercial drone operation -FAR Part 107 Study Guide (2) Instruction on Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) Operations -FAA rules and regulations pertaining to VLOS and Section 107.31 (3) Instruction on the Unmanned System Safety Course -Safety considerations for general drone operation -Safety aspects for common drone models (4) sUAS Operation Course -Operational techniques and drone handling procedures (5) sUAS Safety Ground School. -Safe operation of drones -National airspace rules and regulations (6) Digital textbooks and workbooks for participating students. -Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technologies, platforms and systems -Origins and development of unmanned aviation -Commercial and government application of small UAS technology -Concepts and theories associated with remote sensing -Categories of UAS control stations and methods of UAS control -Data link configurations (7) Tie-in with simulation skill and certification training -Use of data link software -Systems and flight time tracking (8) The curriculum will result in the following certifications. -sUAS Safety Certification Level 1 -sUAS Safety Certification Level 2 -Visual Line of Sight System Operations - VSO Ground -VSO Flight ALL Delivery shall occur Monday-Friday, no weekend or holiday deliveries. Online curriuclum delivered virtually or in person. Curriculum includes: 1) Part 107 Prep Curriculum for preparing learners for 14 CFR Part 107 Unmanned Aircraft General exam. 2) Train the trainer industry certifications for instructors to quickly bring up to speed on remotely piloted industry. Instructor training includes necessary digital content from ISBN 978-0-9987295-1-0 and workbooks ISBN 978-0-99872954-1. Instructors will receive digital Credly industry certification badges upon successful completion of certification exam. 3) Digital badging through Credly provides students with a virtual, sharable badge for sUAS Safety Ground School (Part 107 Prep Course). 4) Zephyr Simulation is utilized to evaluate instructor's proficiency on the controls for liability purposes. This can be done completely remote. Students will utilize zephyr simulation to build psychomotor skills related to drone operations and to build flight curriculum beyond Part 107 and properly teach students to fly drones in the classroom. Industry certification exam costs and preparatory curriculum online are for instructors only for professional development and delivery of Part 107 content to students, 1200, EA; LI 002: Requested Specification: Requested Specification: 1200 Brand Name or Equal to Zypher drone simulation software licenses / Learning Management System. The Contractor shall provide drone flight simulation software (Personal Computer (PC) or Medium Access Control (MAC)), one license per student, which provides the following: (1) Learning Management System for each student. -Teacher can assign modules for the students to complete -Teachers can monitor student progress (2) Visual Observer -Teachers can monitor student flights while in progress (3) Objective data collection and reporting -Teachers can receive a report after each training module -Teachers can review reports on-line (4) Ability to adjust difficulty levels. -Basic level for new drone pilots. -Teacher can scale the difficulty level as the students gain experience and skill (5) sUAS Safety Ground School. -Safe operation of drones -National airspace rules and regulations (6) Multiple controller support. -The simulator will work with multiple types of commercially available controllers (7) Weather variations. -Can be adjusted for wind or no wind (8) Multiple drone models. -Simulates various commercially available drone models -Software updates to add new drone models as necessary (9) Effective feedback. -Provides immediate feedback so students can adjust flying habits accordingly ALL EQUIPMENT FULFILLMENT AND SHIPMENT TO FINAL DESZephyr Drone Simulator Description: The Zephyr Drone Simulator is the only drone simulator on the market that offers the learning management system with the training software. It includes over 30 training modules and 14 drone models. (1)Zephyr is compatible on both PC and MacOS. Licenses provide access to the LMS, the teach is able to assign modules to students (2) Reports are tracking so flight data can be reviewed after the fact. Users can also use meeting software such as Zoom to screenshare during flights, or look over their shoulder if in person training occuring (3)Data on each flight is collected including flight times, scores, and flight metrics such as speed and altitude, these are all stored for later viewing on the LMS. (4)While each module's difficulty cannot be adjusted, there are modules that span many levels of difficulty in the simulator. Modules can be selected based on skill/ experience level to fit the training needs of each student. This can be done by assigning modules as well. (5) Zephyr's modules help grow meaningful flight skills and when paired with the USI curriculum lead to the safe training and operation of drones. It does include FAA restrictions for line of sight and altitude as part of the training. (6) Zephyr supports multiple controllers such as gamepads and OpenTX transmitters, but we strongly recommend the FS-i6S option (line item, 1200, EA; LI 003: Requested Specification: Requested Specification: 1200 Brand Name or Equal to Vista Data Collection Software. The Contractor shall provide data collection software (Personal Computer (PC) or Medium Access Control (MAC)) that interacts with the drone flight simulation software which provides the following: (1) Equipment and aircraft tracking and maintenance. -Track drone type for flight simulation (2) Student drone simulation flight-hour tracking. -Interact with drone flight simulation software to track student flight-hours (3) Safety Risk Management. -Students can manage risk for simulated drone flights (4) Administrative oversight, insight, and reporting -Creates reports for teach and student use on drone flight information ALL EQUIPMENT FULFILLMENT AND SHIPMENT TO FINAL DESTINATION UNDER THIS CONTRACT SHALL OCCUR Monday-Friday, no weekend or holiday deliveries. Seller Line Item Details: Manufacturer: Drone Logbook Part Number: VISTA-EDU Description: VISTA� is an annual subscription program fpr compliance management tools to track both maintenance and remote pilot proficiency. The software is desktop based and can: 1) Track program wide performance (flight time, number of aircraft, simulation hours, etc) 2) Logs telemetry from Zephyr simulation for every student automatically 3) Logs all equipment telemetry for tracking maintenance and status program wide 4) Creates exportable pdf pilot portfolio for every student to provide backup data for resum, 1200, EA; Solicitation and Buy Attachments ***Question Submission: Interested Offerers must submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Buyer to respond. Questions must be submitted by using the 'Submit a Question' feature at www.UnisonMarketplace.com. Questions not received within a reasonable time prior to close of the solicitation may not be considered.*** For this solicitation, MICC End User intends to conduct an online competitive reverse auction to be facilitated by the third-party reverse auction provider, Unison Marketplace. Unison Marketplace has developed an online, anonymous, browser based application to conduct the reverse auction. An Offeror may submit a series of pricing bids, which descend in price during the specified period of time for the aforementioned reverse auction. MICC End User is taking this action in an effort to improve both vendor access and awareness of requests and the agency's ability to gather multiple, competed, real-time bids. All responsible Offerers that respond to this solicitation MUST submit the pricing portion of their bid using the online exchange located at www.UnisonMarketplace.com. There is no cost to register, review procurement data or make a bid on www.UnisonMarketplace.com. Offerers that are not currently registered to use www.UnisonMarketplace.com should proceed to www.UnisonMarketplace.com to complete their free registration. Offerers that require special considerations or assistance may contact Marketplace Support at 1.877.933.3243 or via email at marketplacesupport@unisonglobal.com. Offerers may not artificially manipulate the price of a transaction on www.UnisonMarketplace.com by any means. It is unacceptable to place bad faith bids, to use decoys in the www.UnisonMarketplace.com process or to collude with the intent or effect of hampering the competitive www.UnisonMarketplace.com process. Should Offerers require additional clarification, notify the point of contact or Marketplace Support at 1.877.933.3243 or marketplacesupport@unisonglobal.com.Use of Unison Marketplace: Buyers and Sellers agree to conduct this transaction through Unison Marketplace in compliance with the Unison Marketplace Terms of Use. Failure to comply with the below terms and conditions may result in offer being determined as non-responsive. This is currently an unfunded requirement with a high expectation that funds will be available. When and if funds become available a contract will be awarded at that time. The offeror must comply with the following commercial item terms and conditions: FAR 52.252-1, Solicitation. Provisions Incorporated by Reference; FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors; 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications; FAR 52.211-6, Brand name or Equal. The following clauses apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions � Commercial Items. The following FAR clauses in paragraph (b) of FAR clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, apply: 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First Tier Subcontract Awards; 52.219-6, Notice of Total Small Business Set-Aside; 52.219-28, Post Award Small Business Program Rerepresentation; 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.222-19, Child Labor-Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; 52.222-21, Prohibition of Segregated Facilities; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; 52.232-33, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer--System for Award Management. 52.233-4, Applicable Law for Breach of Contract Claim; The following DFARS clauses apply: DFARS 252.04-7004, Alternate A System for Award Management; 252.211-7003, Item Identification and Valuation; 252.225-7002, Qualifying Country Sources as Subcontractors; 252.232-7010, Levies on Contract Payments; 252.203-7000, Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials; 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance Of Payments Program; 252.225-7036, Buy American Act -- Free Trade Agreements -- Balance of Payments Program; 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment Requests; 252.247-7023, Primary and ALT III, Transportation of Supplies by Sea. IAW 52.204-7 System for Award Management (SAM) Registration (July 2013), the offeror must be registered in SAM and fully input their Representations and Certifications for a complete record. Information can be found at http://www.sam.gov or by calling 866-606-8220, or 334-206-7828 for international calls. 52.204-13 - System for Award Management Maintenance Shipping is FOB Destination CONUS (CONtinental U.S.). New Equipment ONLY. NO USED OR REMANUFACTURED PRODUCTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Submitted Quotes will be valid for 45 days after the auction closing. This solicitation is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ), not an invitation for bid (IFB).). IAW FAR 52.252-2 Clauses Incorporated by Reference, for the extended description here is the website: https://www.acquisition.gov/ The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement can be found. The small business size standard for that NAICS code can be found at https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards_Table.pdf 5152.233-4000 AMC-LEVEL PROTEST PROGRAM (Feb 2014) (LOCAL CLAUSE) Prior to submitting an agency protest, it is preferable that you first attempt to resolve your concerns with the responsible contracting officer (Phone: (315)772-7272 or Email: usarmy.drum.acc-micc.mbx.micc@mail.mil). However, you may also file a protest to the Headquarters (HQ), Army Materiel Command (AMC). The HQ AMC-Level Protest Program is intended to encourage interested parties to seek resolution of their concerns within AMC as an Alternative Dispute Resolution forum, rather than filing a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or other external forum. Contract award or performance is suspended during the protest to the same extent, and within the same time periods, as if filed at the GAO. The AMC protest decision goal is to resolve protests within 35 calendar days from filing. To be timely, protests must be filed within the periods specified in FAR 33.103. If you want to file a protest under the HQ AMC-Level Protest Program, the protest must request resolution under that program and be sent to the address below. Headquarters U.S. Army Materiel Command Office of Command Counsel-Deputy Command Counsel 4400 Martin Road Rm: A6SE040.001 Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5000 Fax: (256) 450-8840 or email usarmy.redstone.usamc.mbx.protests@mail.mil The AMC-Level Protest procedures are found at: https://www.amc.army.mil/Connect/Legal-Resources/. If internet access is not available, contact the contracting officer or HQ, AMC to obtain the HQ AMC-Level Protest Procedures. ""52.204-9, Personal Identity Verification of Contractor Personnel; 52.204-10, Reporting Executive Compensation and First-Tier Subcontract Awards; 52.222-41, Service Contract Act; 52.237-2, Protection of Government Buildings, Equipment and Vegetation; 252.201-7000, COR Clause; 252.223-7006, Prohibition On Storage And Disposal Of Toxic And Hazardous Materials; 252.243-7001, Pricing of Contract Modifications; 252.246-7000, Material inspection and receiving report"" Representation by Corporations Regarding an Unpaid Tax Liability or a Felony Conviction under any Federal Law. Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions 252.204-7012 Safeguarding of Unclassified Controlled Technical Information All deliveries shall be palletized when the material exceeds 250 lbs. (excluding the pallet), or exceeds 20 cubic feet, to comply with the requirements of Department of the Army Pamphlet 700-32 and MIL-STD-147E. IAW FAR 52.212-2; Evaluation - Commercial Items, the following factor shall be used to evaluate offers: technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement and price. Technical capability is a pass fail requirement. Evaluation is based on a lowest price technically acceptable. No multiple awards will be made. Quotes received through Unison Marketplace will be evaluated and awarded on an ?all-or-nothing? basis. Wide Area WorkFlow Payment Instructions Please address your questions through the Unison Marketplace buy. If your questions are not being answered in a timely manner, please send your question to the S2P2 Contracting Officer - usarmy.drum.acc-micc.mbx.micc@mail.mil or call 315-772-5582. In accordance with DFAR provision 252.225-7000 Buy American Act--Balance of Payments Program Certificate, I certify that each end product, except those listed in paragraphs (c)(2) or (3) of the attached provision, is a domestic end product. ****YOU MUST FILL OUT THE ATTACHED IF OTHER THAN DOMESTIC END PRODUCT IF YOU DO NOT FILL IT OUT AND YOU DELIVER OTHER THAN A DOMESTIC END PRODUCT YOUR DELIVERY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED********** ****READ DFARs Clause 252.225-7001 to ensure your product comes from a QUALIFYING COUNTRY******* ****IF YOU QUOTE A PRODUCT OTHER THAN DOMESTIC FROM A NON-QUALIFYING COUNTRY YOUR QUOTE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED***** Representation and Representation Disclosures The form(s) included in the buy must be returned with your quote. Failure to return the form(s) with your quote will result in your quote not being considered for award. Reporting During Contract Performance Equal Opportunity
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