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R -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (O&M) INCLUSIVE OF MISSION SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE JOINT READINESS TRAINING CENTER (JRTC) FORT POLK, LA SOL N61339-95-R-0048 DUE 042795 POC E. C. Hayslette/407-380-8492/Contracting Officer/Richard L. Mitchell/407-380-4028 Sources are being sought for O&M services to provide planning, manning, and operation of the JRTC rotations and related mission support requirements. This acquisition is anticipated to be a cost plus award fee contract with three-month transition phase-in, six-month option, and two one-year options with concurrent six-month transition phase-out during the last option exercised. This action is a successor to Contract DABT60-92-C-0018 awarded to BDM Management Services Company by U.S. Army Training Doctrine (TRADOC) Contracting Activity, POC Ms. Barbara Korzyk, (804) 878-4005. The successor contract may also include a requirement to develop additional and/or enhanced visual databases, etc. If a new contractor is the awardee, the successor contractor shall negotiate and implement an associate contractor agreement with the outgoing incumbent contractor to ensure overlap and smooth transition of the effort without negative impact on the effort. Interested sources for this contemplated acquisition must provide capability statements and include in their response prior and current business relevant to this acquisition and a brief synopsis of past performance. Include relevant facts that demonstrate your capability to successfully perform the effort. Respondents should include their business size under SIC Code 8711. General company brochures will be of no value and shall not be submitted. Responses should be submitted to E. C. Hayslette at the above address within fifteen calendar days of publication in the Commerce Business Daily. The JRTC derives its mission from Combat Training Center Program Army Regulation (AR) 350-50 and the TRADOC/FORSCOM Supplement to AR 350-50. The mission of the JRTC is to provide advanced collective training to Joint Army Task Forces consisting of Active Army Light Infantry Division, 75th Ranger Regiment, selected Reserve Component (RC), Special Operations Forces (SOF), U. S. Air Force Theater Combat Delivery (TCD), Air Combat Command (ACC), selected Navy and Marine units all within the context of the Army Joint Training Strategy and Doctrine. The air and associated ground units are closely integrated into JRTC training. The JRTC rotational unit will be a task organized light maneuver brigade. The rotational training unit is structured around four major components: (1) Conventional Brigade/Ranger Regiment/Separate Infantry Brigade; (2) Special Operations Forces; (3) U.S. Air Force ACC (Fighter and AFSOC);and (4) U.S. Air Force Theater Combat Delivery (TCD). Contractor requirements involve staffing, manning, operating JRTC's instrumentations systems for the Exercise Maneuver Control Center (EMCC), Leadership Training Program (LTP), and Command PostExercise (CPX). Future requirements involve Echelons Above Division (EAD). JRTC conducts a minimum of 10 brigade sized Joint Task Force training rotations per year of three maneuver battalion task forces along with the aforementioned forces. Arotation consists of seven major phases: predeployment/special operations, Intermediate Staging Maneuver (ISM) deployment, operations other than war, preparation for defense/defense, deliberate attack/hasty attack, post operations recovery, and redeployment. The majority of training scenario operations occur during periods of limited visibility. Training is 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for up to 21 days with instrumentation system hardware being operational for a total of 4,800 annual hours or 200 days out of the year. An Opposing Force (OPFOR), trained in threat tactics, anticipates in all training sessions. This OPFOR replicates an Armed Insurgent Force, a Covert Insurgent Force and Motorized Rifle Regiment (-) and provides a realistic opponent for the U.S. Forces (BLUEFOR). These two forces will be on the battlefield during the rotations, and each may be instrumented by the contractor down to fire team level depending on the operational requirement. Instrumentation of players will consist of two types. The ''fully'' instrumented players will have the capability to receive and transmit data. The ''partially'' instrumented players will only have the capability to receive data and commands in accordance with the capabilities of Simulated Area Weapons Effect/Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System II (SAWE/MILES II). At the completion of each rotation phase, training feedback under the train-evaluate-train model will be provided in a multi-media After Action Review (AAR) consisting of exercise history to include segments of appropriate exercise data, field video, map graphics, excerpts from tactical communications and select hard copy products. JRTC's instrumentation systems (IS) assists in identifying weaknesses in command and control, fire distribution, weapons employment, logistic support, and tactical employment. A major purpose of the IS is to provide feedback for all participating units so they may identify training strengths and weaknesses and take corrective action to improve unit combat readiness. The contactor, using the IS, provides the unit a Take Home Package (THP). The JRTC operates an EMCC which records cumulative exercise data for post-mission analysis. The JRTC-IS performs the functions of: position location, weapons engagement event recording, automated and manual data collection, simulated area weapons effects, and AAR presentation. Additionally, JRTC uses the Observer Controller Communication System (OCCS) a nontactical UHF Observer/Controller radio system, and the SAWE/MILES II. The contractor will be required to use and operate these systems to support the Observer/Controllers and the EMCC in the conduct of the rotation and presentation of After Action Reviews, Command Briefings, and THP, production and delivery. The focus of JRTC's Mission is training on Light Intensity Conflict (LIC), Medium Intensity Conflict (MIC), and Operations Other Than War (OOTW) which is portrayed by various scenarios depicting regional contingencies. These scenarios will be contractor developed using JRTC's instrumentation systems. The JRTC provides training by establishing an environment, situations, conditions, and training analysis and feedback which cannot be duplicated at a unit's home station. The JRTC Operations Group (Ops Gp) is responsible for planning, coordinating, controlling, evaluating and providing feedback for unit training. To accomplish this, the JRTC Op Gp Plans/Exercise Maneuver Control Division (Plans/EMC) provides realistic scenario and exercise support documents that lead up to a U.S. armed insertion and intervention scenario. The Plans/EMC Division also monitors and controls the exercise, receives data on the execution of the tactical mission, replicates Division/Joint Task Force Headquarters functions. The Ops Gp Observer/Controllers (O/C) provide the control, assessments, and feedback to both the EMCC and the rotational unit. The contractor will be required to support the following Tactical Analysis and Feedback for BN Task Forces 1 and 2, and Force 3 (CPX), Brigade Task Force units and attachments or subcomponents, Aviation Task Force, Combat Service Support, Fire Support, Intelligence, Special Operations, Joint Air Combat Command (Close Air Support and theater combat delivery), Live Fire Exercise (Future), OPFOR (Future), and MOUT (Future). The contractor will perform auxiliary contractor support to the JRTC in support of its mission. A draft SOW and Solicitation are planned for release early May 95; official RFP is planned for release early Jul 95 with proposals due approximately 30 days from release of RFP. Interested sources should address correspondence to E. C. Hayslette/Code 27323 for inclusion on mailing list with individual named that should receive the draft and official copies. (0101)

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