Commandant (G-ACS-2B/SP), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001

R -- REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT INDEPENDENT VALIDATION & VERIFICATION (IV&V), AND QUALITY ENGINEERING TECHNICAL SERVICES FOR REMOTE SENSOR TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER PROJECTS SOL DTCG23-96-R-IVV006. Contact: L. Scott Palmer, Ph: 202/267-2489/Contracting Officer: L. Scott Palmer, Ph: 202/267-2489. The U.S. Coast Guard has a need for requirements development, Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V), and quality engineering technical services for high technology remote sensor projects and other technical requirements. The Coast Guard requires these services to maintain critical remote sensor technology capability for use in U. S. Coast Guard requirements definition. Requirements Development duties include providing technical support to translate mission needs into technical requirements and documentation preparation, and performing trade-off analyses for projects related to remote sensor technology and other areas. IV&V efforts shall include determining the scope of IV&V efforts by performing criticality analyses of remote sensor systems. Contractor shall extract system requirements from requirements documentation, list system requirements, identify potential impact of software and hardware errors, faults, and other out of tolerance conditions on system requirements. Contractor shall then calculate criticality value of systems and prepare and execute IV&V plans. Quality Engineering support shall ensure that acquired systems satisfy mission needs. Quality planning technical support shall include performance and integration studies, schedule development, interface planning, and supplier proposal review, audits, and qualification. Additionally, the contractor must perform quality analyses of systems and review technical system technical documentation in areas such as reliability engineering, risk assessment, failure modes and effects, design reviews, human factors engineering, and environmental effects. Quality Engineering services required include developing performance metrics, providing industry benchmarking support, supporting Coast Guard test and evaluation, supporting environmental testing, and reviewing test data. In addition to the technical services mentioned above, the Coast Guard also requires that independent assessments and analyses be totally objective and free from organizational conflict and biases toward specific commercial products and services. Such non-advocacy is necessary for the development of accurate specifications and for accurate IV&V. Moreover, any prospective contractor must assure that various contractor's proprietary information will be appropriately safeguarded through the course of specification development and testing. In order to fulfill this requirement and in the absence of responses from firms which have the capability to fulfill the performance, impartiality, and confidentiality aspects of this requirement, the Coast Guard intends to issue a sole-source contract to the Aerospace Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), for the services described pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(B)(1). No other notice will be published until award is made. The Coast Guard anticipates issuing an IDIQ contract with a base year and two option years. Period of performance will commence upon award and continue for one year, three years if all options are exercised. The Aerospace Corporation, a FFRDC, was formed specifically to develop subject matter expertise that is unavailable in the private sector. Moreover, Aerospace was formed to provide this necessary expertise for selected technology related to national security. Remote sensor technology is included among these capabilities. Aerospace employs specialized skills in remote sensor technology, radar, electromagnetic propagation effects, software, quality engineering and specification development to Coast Guard standards. Moreover, Aerospace's existence as a nonprofit FFRDC, used solely for Government projects, has made it institutionally free from organizational conflicts and biases toward specific commercial products and services. Aerospace has consistently performed work on sensitive projects while appropriately safeguarding both contractor and Government proprietary information. All interested parties must submit a capabilities statement and descriptive literature that sufficiently describes the qualifications and capabilities of their firm to fulfill all aforementioned requirements. All responsible sources may respond to this notice and will be considered by the Coast Guard. This notice is not a solicitation nor is a formal Request for Proposal available. Submit literature and any correspondence to: Commandant (G-ACS-2B/SP), 2100 Second Street SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001. This Notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. See Numbered Note 22. (173)

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