HSC/YAK 8107 13th Street Brooks AFB TX 78235-5218

A -- INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS SOL NONE POC Capt Holly Funk, Contract Manager, (210) 536-6398; Yolanda G. Tollinger, Contracting Officer, (210) 536-6339. This is not a notice of solicitation. The Air Force Human Systems Center is seeking 8(a) SOURCES ONLY to solicit at a later date. The United States Air Force plans to acquire the development, production, and maintenance of computer based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). This effort has been classified under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code 7371. We are interested in applying ITS technologies to a variety of needs. We envision developing, fielding, and maintaining a spectrum of ITS capabilities. Some will provide enhanced procedural training using available commercial or military Off-The-Shelf (OTS) authoring tools. Other applications will involve intelligent tutors that use the latest in state-of-the-art cognitive task analysis and object oriented software languages. The program goal is to use ITS technologies to accelerate students' apprentice learning complex systems. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS - ITS courseware shall be developed using either commercially developed or Air Force Armstrong Laboratroy developed interviewing/data collection/data analysis (cognitive task analysis) methodologies, knowledge engineering technologies and software development tools for ITS application. Tutors will be hosted on personal computors (PC's). Contractor capabilities required for the ITS program include: 1) experience in intelligent tutoring systems development, 2) experience in instructional design and evaluation, 3) experience in collecting and analyzing cognitive task analysis data, 4) experience in development of complex software for multimedia personal computers, 5) expertise with object-oriented programming, 6) experience in creating PC-based hardware simulations, and 7) ability to successfully manage concurrent, long term software development projects. Interested parties shall submit substantiation of the capabilities as part of their capabilities statement. The Air Force procurement approach is to competitively award an 8(a) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Cost Plus Award Fee contract or contracts, as multiple awards are being considered. The contract(s) will have a five year ordering period. The contractor will design, develop, produc, and test the ordered Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and deliver required documentation. A draft Request for Proposal (RFP) is planned for release in the first quarter of FY96. The final RFP is planned for release in the second quarter of FY96 with a contract award in the fourth quarter FY96. Until a final RFP is issued, the above approach is only a baseline concept that may be revised based on input from industry and other considerations. The purpose of this announcement is to solicit 8(a) sources certified under SIC 7371; therefore, potential contractors who have the capability and are interested in developing and producing Intelligent Tutoring Systems are requested to respond to the contract manager, Capt Holly Funk, HSC/YAK, 8107 13th Street, Brooks AFB TX 78235-5218. Please respond in writing within 30 days from the date of this announcement. Qualification packages should address the seven capabilities listed in the TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS section above. Your response should include a qualification package which establishes your expertise (including years of experience), or your ability to obtain such expertise required to perform the prospective contract. The package should contain sufficient information to permit evaluation of your capability in 5 standard size (8 1/2 inches by 11 inches) typed, double spaced pages or less. Furthermore, your written request must include the following in order to facilitate our assessment of industry's capability: 1) identification of business size considering SIC 7371 with a size standard of $14.5 million annual receipts; 2) identification of whether or not your firm a) qualifies as a small disadvantaged business or b) qualifies under the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program; 3) respondent's address, business number, and facsimile number; and 4) identification of your intent to act as a consultant, subcontractor, or prime contractor for the effort. The above requested information is NOT intended as preselection evaluation documentation. All requesters will be given a copy of the solicitation. The requested information will enable the Government to more clearly define its acquisition approach. The Human Systems Center (HSC) has established an Ombudsman to address your concerns on a non-attribution basis. Potential offerors are encouraged to exhaust all avenues within the contracting and program management chain as the Ombudsmans is not meant to b a substitute for actual program personnel. The HSC Ombudsman is Mr. Emile Baladi, HSC/XR. Submit your concerns, other than contractual or technical, to HSC/XR, Attn: Ombudsman (Mr. Emile Baladi), Brooks AFB TX 78235-5000. Include a copy of this CBD announcement as a reference. Otherwise, address questions to Capt Holly Funk, HSC/YAK, 8107 13th Street, Brooks AFB TX 78235-5218, (210) 536-6398. This announcement contains the best currently available information and is subject to change. This announcement is not a request for proposal and in no way commits the Government to award a contract. (See numbered Note 25). (0250)

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