Electronic Systems Center/AVK, Contracting Division, Command & Control Systems, 20 Schilling Circle, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2816

A -- NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MODEL (NASM) SOL F19628-95-R-0070 POC Marian Cameron, Contract Manager, 617-377-6602; Kent Kinal, Contracting Officer, 617-377-6607. This synopsis is to notify prospective offerors that the release date for the formal Request For Proposal (RFP) for the National Air and Space (Warfare) Model (Reference Sources Sought Synopsis:1 Aug 95, CBD) on the Hanscom Electronic RFP Bulletin Board (HERBB) on or about 5 June 96. This will be the ONLY media used to issue the RFP. HERBB may be reached at (617)377-1487 (TELNET 129.53.1.36). A modem and commercially available communications software are all that is needed to access HERBB. A copy of the formal RFP will also be available in hard copy format at the Phillips Laboratory Research Library at Hanscom AFB, MA. Procedures for using the library may be obtained from Capt. Carolyn Kwieraga at (617) 377-6423. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice. The Executive Summary (Volume I), Technical/Management Proposal (Volume II) and Contract Information (Volume IV) of the RFP response will be required to be submitted no later than 45 days from the date the RFP is posted on HERBB. The exact date, time and location for receipt of proposal Volumes I, II and IV will be included in the RFP. Cost Documentation (Volume III) of the RFP will be formally requested by the Government after the due date of the other volumes. The Government will conduct a Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) on all offerors and may conduct multiple SCEs for an offeror team if one or more subcontractors are proposed to accomplish a significant portion of the proposed systems engineering and software development effort. Any offerors wishing to pursue the reuse of an ESC contractor conducted SCE, must notify the NASM PCO, Mr. Kent Kinal, of their desire in writing. In the letter, please identify the contract effort your proposal was submitted for that resulted in the conduct of an SCE, as well as the date of the SCE. The Government will review the applicability of the SCE to the NASM contract effort. The Government reserves the right to conduct an SCE on all offerors and their subcontractors as deemed necessary. Please send SCE reuse request letters to the following address: Mr. Kent Kinal, NASM PCO, ESC/AVK, 20 Schilling Circle, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2816. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of the proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Dr. Phillip P. Panzarella at (617)377-5106. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. (0138)

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