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A -- COMBAT FLIGHT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAM - NOTICE: THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS IN TWO PARTS. THIS IS PART 2 OF 2 SOL PRDA 96-05-FIK POC Edward J. Caulfield, Contract Negotiator, (513) 255-5901 Lawrence W. Kopa, Contracting Officer, (513) 255-5901. NOTE: THIS IS PART 2 OF 2. C--ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: (1) Anticipated Period of Performance: The total length of the technical effort is estimated to be 60 months, including time for report processing. (2) Expected Award Date: 1996 June-August. (3) Government Estimate: The government funding profile is estimated to be as follows: System Analysis, FY96 - $170K, FY97 - $250K, Development and Integration, FY97 - $190K, FY98 - $383K, FY99 - $828K, FY00 - $413K, Evaluation and Demonstration, FY00 - $1,260K, FY01 - $901K. This funding profile is an estimate only and is not a promise for funding as all funding is subject to change due to government discretion and availability. (4) Type of Contract: Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF Completion) or Cost Reimbursement, (5) Government Furnished Property: One helmet mounted display (HMD) system with head tracker, drive electronics, and connectors. Offerors should identify and arrange for use of any other GFP. (6) Notice to Foreign-Owned Firms: All foreign participation at the prime contractor level is excluded from this procurement. D--PROPOSAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS: (1) General: Offerors should apply the restrictive notice prescribed in the provision at FAR 52.215-12, Restriction on Disclosure and Use of Data, to trade secrets or privileged commercial and financial information contained in their proposals. Proposal questions should be directed to one of the points of contact listed elsewhere herein. Offerors should consider instructions contained in the WL PRDA and BAA Guide for Industry referenced in section A of this announcement. Technical and cost proposals, submitted in separate volumes, are required and must be valid for 180 days. Proposals must reference the above PRDA number. Proposals shall be submitted in an original and five copies. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered against the criteria set forth herein. Offerors are advised that only contracting officers are legally authorized to contractually bind or otherwise commit the government. (2) Cost Proposal: The accompanying cost proposal and price breakdown shall be supplied on an SF 1411, together with supporting schedules, and shall contain a person-hour breakdown per task. Copies of the above-referenced forms may be obtained form the contracting office cited. (3) Technical Proposal: The technical proposal shall include a discussion of the nature and scope of the research, the technical approach, program management, information on prior work in this area, descriptions of available equipment, data and facilities, and resumes of personnel who will be participating in this effort. Discussion shall include a time-line schedule. The technical proposal shall include a Statement of Work (SOW) detailing the technical tasks proposed to be accomplished under the proposed effort and suitable for contract incorporation. The SOW is not included in the page limit. Offerors should refer to the WL Guide referenced in Section A to assist in SOW preparation. PL 98-94 applies. Offerors must submit approved DD Form 2345, Export-Controlled DoD Technical Data Agreement with their proposal. Any questions concerning the technical proposal or SOW preparation shall be referred to the Technical Point of Contact cited in this announcement. (4) Page Limitations: The technical proposal shall be limited to 75 pages. The page limitation includes all information, i.e. indices, photographs, fold-outs, appendices, attachments, etc. except for the SOW. Pages in excess of this limitation will not be considered by the government. Cost proposals have no limitations, however, offerors are requested to keep cost proposals under 75 pages. (5) Preparation Cost: This announcement is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to pay for any response preparation cost. The cost of preparing proposals in response to this PRDA is not considered an allowable direct charge to any resulting or any other contract. However, it may be an allowable expense to the normal bid and proposal indirect cost as specified in FAR 31.205-18. E--BASIS FOR AWARD: The selection of a source for award will be based on an evaluation of an offeror's response (both technical and cost) to determine the overall merit of the proposal in response to this announcement. The technical aspect, which is ranked as the first order of priority, shall be evaluated based on the following criteria which are of equal importance: (1) New and creative solutions, (2) The offeror's understanding of the problem, (3) The degree to which the offeror can meet the objectives stated herein, (4) The flexibility of the proposed concept to provide benefits in other systems and mission areas. (5) The affordability of the proposed solution to customers. Solutions should minimize reliance on special use processors and other hardware devices. (6) The availability of qualified technical personnel and their experience with off-board information fusion, in-flight mission planning, flight control automation, pilot-vehicle interface technologies, human factors engineering, and test and evaluation. (7) The offeror's ability to plan and conduct piloted evaluations to measure mission effectiveness, system performance, pilot workload, and pilot acceptability. (8) The fidelity of the proposed demonstration environment to that of a fielded system to show maturity and ease of transition. (9) Organization, clarity, and thoroughness of the proposed SOW and program schedule. The SOW and schedule should show products early and at frequent milestones. The SOW should be ready for insertion into a contract without modification. Cost, which includes consideration of proposed budgets and funding profiles, is ranked as the second order of priority. No other evaluation criteria will be used. The technical and cost information will be evaluated at the same time. The Air Force reserves the right to select for award of a contract, grant or cooperative agreement any, all, part, or none of the proposals received. Award of a grant to universities or nonprofit institutions or cooperative agreement is lieu of a contract, will be considered and will be subject to the mutual agreement of the parties. The government reserves the right to award any resulting contract pursuant to the Research and Development Standard Contract format in DFARS 235.7000. F--POINTS OF CONTACT: (1) Technical: Wright Laboratory, Cockpit Development Section, Mr. Andrew Probert, WL/FIGP-2, WPAFB OH 45433-7521, (513) 255-8280. (2) Contracting/Cost: Routine questions related to the contract/cost issues should be directed to the contract negotiator identified in part A at (513) 255-5901. (3) An ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his/her concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. All potential offerors should use established channels to voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman will communicate certain offeror's issues, disagreements, and recommendations on this acquisition into the proper channels. The Ombudsman's role is not to diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer, but to advocate an offeror's concern on a not-attributional basis. The Ombudsman will not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the selection decision process for this acquisition. Offerors with serious concerns only are invited to call Col Michael J. Corcoran, ASC/IG, Bldg 14, 1865 Fourth St, Ste 12, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7126, (513) 255-0600, E-Mail corcormj@asc.wpafb.af.mil. - END OF PART 2. (0092)

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