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70 -- TERMINAL AREA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUTOMATION SYSTEM DUE 033195 POC Eugene Johnson, Contracting Officer, at (202) 233-3088 17. STANDARD TERMINAL AUTOMATION REPLACEMENT SYSTEM (STARS) . Note: What follows are part 2 of the STARS qualification criteria, which were published in two parts. 2.0 Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) Experience: BACKGROUND - The contractor for the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) shall perform software engineering activities including, but not limited to, requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, test, distribution, installation, enhancement, correction, upgrade, and maintenance of software. The STARS contractor shall be both knowledgeable and capable in software engineering skills and practices to perform these activities. The FAA intends to evaluate the software engineering capabilities of offerors as part of its source selection process for STARS, and plans to use the results in its determination of award.To ensure that offerors are cognizant of practices for evaluating software capabilities, offerors shall satisfy the following requirement to participate in source selection activities for STARS: An independent SCE shall be performed prior to FAA's conduct of a software capability evaluation related to the STARS acquisition. The SCE shall be in accordance with the conditions outlined in sections a, b, c and d below. a) The on-site portion of the SCE was/shall be conducted after January 1, 1994, but no later than 59 calendar days after the issuance of the final version of the STARS Request for Proposal. b) The SCE was/shall be performed using The Capability Maturity Model for Software, Version 1.1 as described in CMU/SEI-93-TR-24 and Key Practices of the Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1 as described in CMU/SEI-93-TR-25. Both documents were issued by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University in February 1993. c) The SCE was/shall be performed by an evaluation team that is trained in SCEs by the Software Engineering Institute, or is trained by an SEI-authorized source of SCE training. d) The SCE was/shall be performed on programs and/or projects at the corporate or division cost center that will perform or will be responsible for STARS software engineering activities. This requirement is applicable to the Prime contractor as well as to each corporation, or to each division of a corporation (if such divisions exist), that intends to perform software engineering activities for STARS. The Prime contractor is responsible for ensuring that all software subcontractors satisfy this requirement.Deliverables:To substantiate the ability to meet criteria 2.0 above, the vendor shall supply to the STARS Contracting Officer the following items: A letter of certification from each corporation or division that a Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) has been/shall be conducted on programs and/or projects of the corporation or division under the conditions described in sections a, b, c and d above. Contact information for the evaluating organization and the evaluated organization(s) to be submitted within 60 days of the formal STARS RFP release. Contract information includes organization names(s), point(s) of contact, evaluation date(s) and location(s) of evaluation(s).NOTE: The Government reserves the right to contact evaluating and evaluated organizations to verify compliance with the qualification criteria and conditions of the evaluation.Information about Software Capability Evaluations (including sources for obtaining evaluations) is available from SEI Customer Relations, 412-268-5800. 3.0 System to be Bid:In addition to meeting the certification requirements established for criteria 1.0 and 2.0 above, vendors shall submit to the Contracting Officer a letter certifying that the system which will be evaluated for the STARS solicitation beginning at the Operational Capability Demonstration (OCD) must: a) Be a digitially based system that accepts digital surveillance inputs. b) Be an open architecture system, in that the application software can be ported to multiple hardware platforms (Sun, HP, RISC, etc), and the system consists of COTS hardware. Any non-COTS components must be approved by the Government. c) Have the ability to interface with two (2) short range (ASR-9) and one (1) long range (ARSR-3, CD-2 format) radar simultaneously. d) Have the ability to process flight data in accordance with FAA NAS protocols (NAS-MD-631, NAS-MD-640, and NAS-MD-315). At a minimum, the following specific messages are required: Initiate Transfer (TI), Track Update (TU), Cancellation (CX), Flight Plan (FP), Amendment (AM), Data Accept (DA), Data Reject (DR), Accept Transfer (TA) and Departure Message (DM). e) Contain adaptable Computer Human Interface (CHI) parameters which can be modified without requiring a recompile of the source code. At a minimum the ability to change the format and content of the datablock without recompiling the source code is required. NOTE: Requirements are not all inclusive of the mandatory requirements to be evaluated at source selection. Complete details of the evaluation will be available in the draft RFP and associated plans.The certification letter shall indicate, by company name and applicable division, any and all team members(s) whose system(s) and/or capabilities are referenced as a part of the response to the minimum qualification criteria. In addition, the vendor shall notify the STARS Contracting Officer, in writing, of the elimination, addition or other significant change in role, of any team member. Should a team change in structure following the minimum qualification criteria, the Government reserves the right to requalify the new team to verify that it still meets the minimum qualification criteria. The vendor shall also submit a system description of the STARS system to be demonstrated at OCD to the Contracting Officer no later than ninety (90) days following submission of the offeror's certification letter. IN THEIR DECISIONS TO TAKE PART IN THE STARS ACQUISITION, POTENTIAL OFFERORS ARE ADVISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO REQUIRE INDUSTRY ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITION: Recognizing that Offerors have a statutory right to challenge Government procurement decisions under 41 U.S.C. 759 et. seq. and other statutes, and given the compelling need to field the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) within the nation's air traffic control system, as a condition of competing on the STARS procurement, this Offeror and any team that it is a part of will neither seek nor obtain a suspension of the Government's Delegation of Procurement Authority, nor similar action (e.g., injunction or temporary restraining order), in any legal challenge before and after award.Additional information concerning this planned acquisition will be provided at the soonest possible date via separate announcement. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SYNOPSIS NOR IS THE FAA SEEKING OR ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS. The required certification for the STARS minimum qualification criteria must be forwarded to Eugene Johnson (STARS Contracting Officer) no later than March 31, 1995 by fax at (202) 233-5094 or by mail to: Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Systems Development, Suite 200, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Code ASU-350, Washington, DC 20004 Eugene Johnson, STARS Contracting Officer (0076)

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