11 CONS/LGCX, 500 Duncan Ave, Room 250, Bolling AFB, DC 20332-0305

D -- OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY AND AIRPOWER ASSESSMENT PROGRAM SOL 96-R-1009 DUE 051796 POC ContaMastella/Contract Specialist, (202) 767-7981 The 11 CONS/LGCX intends to procure on a competitive basis an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract with Fixed Priced schedules and a one year period of performance plus 4 one-year options to provide Operational Capability and Airpower Assessment Program services to HQ USAF/XOOC (CHECKMATE). The Air Force is involved in efforts that logistically analyze strategies, assess force structures needed to support crisis response and strategic air campaign activities, and assess alternative warfighting strategies. These range from devising airpower courses of action to developing, enhancing, and improving mathematical tools and methodologies to evaluating strategy options. The contractor will provide the Air Force with the technical capability to use decision support systems to assess current warfighting capabilities; to assess current and projected forces required to accomplish missions, to identify current operational and logistical warfighting shortfalls, to identify capabilities and limiting factors, and implement and maintain decision maiing tools and capabilities for Air Force systems used by the JFACC. The required services will implement, modernize (enhance, improve, and upgrade), operate, and maintain computer-based decision support systems that cover the Air Force Doctrinal and functional areas of Aerospace Control, Force Application, Battlespace Awareness, Mobility, and Logistics. They will provide analytical expertise to support development of strategic air campaigns, evaluation of strategic and operational warfighting capabilities, and conducting assessments on force deployment and employment. Activities can cover the spectrum from near real-time contingency and crisis situations to deliberate planning scenarios. The contractor will occasionally be required to perform limited quick reaction or implementation tasks to solve operational problems or demonstrate the feasibility of a new concept. Contractor personnel must have a TOP SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain one. Contractor facilities must have a SECRET clearance. This procurement will be conducted using procedures described in AFFARS Appendix BB ''Source Selection Procedures for Other Than Major Acquisitions''. The acquisition is being offered as a total small business set aside limited to small businesses as defined in Standard Industrial Code 7371, Computer Programming Services, ($18M). Firms requesting a copy of the solicitation must identify the RFP number given above. Fax requests will be accepted at 202-767-7817; no telephone requests accepted. Note 1. (0081)

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