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69 -- TRAINING DEVICES, C-17 MAINTENANCE TRAINING DEVICES POC F. Joseph Winter, Program Manager, (513) 255-6984, ext. 273. Aeronautical Systems Center, Training System Product Group (ASC/YW) is seeking sources for providing trained, certifiable, Air Force maintenance personnel with the skills necessary to support the operational requirements of the C-17 fleet. The Air Force plans on awarding a C-17 Maintenance Training System ''guaranteed student'' contract to provide contractor trained, certification ready maintenance personnel. Two suites of existing C- 17 Maintenance Training Devices (MTD), including courseware, and the Maintenance Training Device Support Center (MTDSC) are planned to be provided ''as is'' as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to the selected guaranteed student contractor. The Air Force will require access to the MTDs to certify competency of the contractor furnished trained student. This contractor effort will include identification, development, and implementation of any new courseware required and revisions to existing Air Force courseware. The goal is to have a single party responsible for delivering the training instruction required, providing all training media (devices, software, and courseware), instructors, maintenance of all training media, and all updates/revisions to training media to match configuration to the C-17 Production aircraft number P33 baseline document dated 25 Mar 95. Follow-on efforts will be required throughout the C- 17 aircraft life cycle to maintain concurrency of training media with C-17 aircraft configuration updates. For planning purposes, assume no on-aircraft maintenance training, and consider incoming students to have completed AETC initial skills training (3 level). Annual student through-put (by AFSC) to be as follows: 2A5X1 (APG)-600, 2A6X1A (PROP) - 150, 2A6X5 (HYD) - 100, 2A6X6 (EL/EN) - 160, 2A4X1 (GUID/CONT) - 160, 2A4X2 (COMM/NAV) - 160, 2A6X4 (FUELS) - 15. Two suites of existing C-17 Maintenance Training Devices (MTDs) including courseware, and the Maintenance Training Devices Support Center (MTDSC) are planned to be provided ''as is'' as government furnished equipment (GFE) to the selected guaranteed student contractor. Contractors will be expected to use existing maintenance training media for training only to the extent that such use optimizes life cycle performance and cost of the training provided. Use of the existing MTDs for maintenance training will be entirely at the guaranteed student contractor's discretion. Contractor's will be encouraged to consider use of alternate media for both training and certification activities if acquisition/use/maintenance/upgrade of alternate media can be shown to provide life cycle cost and/or performance benefits. The guaranteed student contractor may be required to maintain and perform concurrency upgrades for one or both MTD suite(s) if the Air Force elects to perform student certifications. The Air Force desires to perform no on-aircraft maintenance training or certification. As currently planned, MTDSC and the development suite of C-17 are currently operational at Charleston Air Force Base and will require a continuation of contractor logistic support starting 1 Oct 97. Some aircraft concurrency modifications are presently being implemented on the second suite of MTDs currently in storage in Orlando, Florida. The concurrency modifications are presently being implemented on a second suite of MTDs currently in storage in Orlando, Florida. The second MTD suite will then be transitioned to McChord Air Force Base WA. Storage plan alternatives, based on training facility availability, must be provided in the event programmed training facilities are not ready when the MTDs are scheduled for delivery. A C-l7 MTD suite consists of complex, high fidelity, full size trainers that replicate portions of the C- 17 aircraft. Each MTD suite consists of the following 12 trainers: Two Simulators for Training Evaluation/Performance (STE/P), One Flight Controls System Trainer (FCST), One Engine Cowling Maintenance Procedures Trainer (ECMPT), One Landing Gear Maintenance Trainer (LGMT), One Air Conditioning Maintenance Procedures Trainer (ACMPT), One Cargo Doors/Rails System Trainer (CD/RST), One Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation Trainer (UARRSIT), One Organizational Engine Maintenance Trainer (OEMT), One Auxiliary Power Unit Organization Maintenance Trainer (APUOMT), One Consolidated Maintenance Trainer (CMT), One Fuel Tank Maintenance Trainer (FTMT). The MTDs are currently used to train and certify maintenance personnel in the performance of specific Training Detachment (TD) and Maintenance Qualification Training Program (MQTP) maintenance tasks. Listings of these maintenance training tasks for specific specialty codes are available on request. In order to be considered a potential source, interested parties must submit in writing a clear, concise, and complete statement of capability (no more than 15 pages) to the contracting officer at the buying office noted below not later than 31 May 96. A general capability statement will not be considered sufficient. As a minimum, interested parties must detail the following areas: 1. Current resources, including manpower (technical skills, numbers and types), facilities (space to accommodate MTDs, computer resources to maintain and update complex trainer software) and financial resources, available to update training media, provide contractor trained guaranteed Air Force certifiable C-17 aircraft maintenance technicians and accomplish all program requirements. 2. Past performance in the use of student training management systems, maintenance training task courseware development and delivery, and in maintaining multiple baselines of complex training simulators. 3. Describe how you would maintain and update the C-17 MTD PIDS, Software Product Specification (SPS), and engineering drawings to incorporate concurrency changes or other new requirements. 4. Proven ability to manage and operate the logistics support of complex suites of maintenance training devices at multiple sites. Include your planning to insure contractor logistics support personnel are in place 1 Oct 97. 5. Your approach and schedule to enter into an associate contractor agreement with the C-17 aircraft manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company, and the jet engine manufacturer, Pratt & Whitney, to transition into integrated performance with them. An actual ACA is not needed in any response to this synopsis. The Air Force is seeking only your plan and schedule, to accomplish this critical interface. 6. Explain how you would accommodate the following: a. Transition from Air Force conducted training to total contractor training and take possession of the MTDs, courseware, and spares package on an incremental basis as current upgrades are completed. Include any phased approach methodology and notional schedules. b. Storage of devices. (During the concurrency upgrades of this contract, and if programmed maintenance training facilities are not available, or late to need, after completing concurrency upgrades. Storage alternatives for concurrency and facility non-availability must consider two storage approaches. The first alternative, is for one or more trainers for one or more months. The second, suite, is for all trainers for varying lengths of time.) 7. Description of the differences between your existing resources and all additional resources needed to accomplish the above requirements. As they become available, portions of the RFP and any additional information will be placed on the Pre-Award Information Exchange System(PIXS) electronic bulletin board (access via modem at 513-476-7217 or INTERNET address http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil). An industry day will be held at 1300 on 22 May 96, at Bane Hall in the Air Force Institute of Technology School of Engineering, building 640, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, to solicit industry comments on the planned acquisition approach. All prospective offerors are requested to indicate by fax, prior to 17 May 96, their intent to participate in both this competition and the 22 May 96 industry day. Send fax to (513) 476-7990, ATTN: Mr. Jerry Peterangleo, 17 MTS Contracting Officer, with the following information: Company name, Point of Contact, Telephone number, and company status: large business, small business or 8A. Note: The Standard Industrial Classification code for this effort is 3728, Aircraft Equipment Not Elsewhere Classified, size standard 1000 employees. An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious 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. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC's Ombudsman, Colonel Michael J. Corcoran, ASC/IG, Bldg 14, 1865 Fourth St Ste 12, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7126, phone number (513)255-0600, with serious concerns only. Routine communication concerning this acquisition should be directed to the point of contact listed above. Information contained in this synopsis is for information and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an Invitation for Bid (lFB), and it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. Further, the Government reserves the right to set this acquisition aside for small business. (0123)

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