HSC/YAK Systems Contracting, 8107 13th Street, Brooks AFB TX 78235-5218

A -- INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS SOL F41624-96-R-1000 POC CAPT GARY MATHIS, Contract Manager, (210) 536-6398; YOLANDA G. TOLLINGER, Contracting Officer, (210) 536-6370. INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS: The United States Air Force has a requirement for the development, production, and maintenance of computer based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). We plan to competitively award, under full and open competition, an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract with cost-plus-award fee and cost-plus-fixed fee line items which may be implemented on individual delivery orders. Contractors will be required to perform an oral presentation of their technical capabilities as instructed in the Request for Proposal (RFP). Award of this contract will be based on the best value to the Government, and the resulting contract will have a five year ordering period. This effort is classified under the Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 7371. The Government's requirements include developing, fielding, and maintaining a spectrum of ITS capabilities. The Government is interested in applying ITS technologies to satisfy a variety of training needs. Some applications will provide enhanced procedural training using available commercial or military Off-The-Shelf (OTS) authoring tools. Other applications will involve intelligent tutors that use the latest in state-of-the-art cognitive task analysis and object oriented software languages. The program goal is to use ITS technologies to accelerate students' apprentice learning on complex systems. The contractor will design, develop, produce, and test the ordered ITS. ITS courseware shall be developed using either commercially developed or Air Force Armstrong Laboratory developed interviewing/data collection/data analysis (cognitive task analysis) methodologies, knowledge engineering technologies, and software development tools for ITS application. Anticipated release date of the RFP is on or about the first of August. We intend to release the RFP electonically via the internet. All responsible sources may submit proposals which will be considered by the agency. Requests for solicitation must be in writing to the Contract Manager, Capt Gary Mathis, HSC/YAK, 8107 13th Street, Brooks AFB TX 78235-5210, (210) 536-6398 via email at (gary.mathis@diamond.brooks.af.mil), or register through SARAH. SARAH is the San Antonio RFP Acquisition Highway and is attached to the Brooks AFB Home Page available through the internet. The Human Systems Center (HSC) intends to use the SARAH web pages to post all future information regarding this solicitation. The SARAH URL address is http://www.brooks.af.mil/HSC/PKA/sarah.htm. Various documents associated with the ITS RFP are posted under SARAH. Contractors are invited and encouraged to comment on the draft documentation before they become final. The Human Systems Center (HSC) has established an Ombudsman to address your concerns on a non-attribution basis. Potential offerors are encouraged to exhaust all avenues within the contracting and program management chain as the Ombudsman is not meant to be a substitute for actual program personnel. The HSC Ombudsman is Mr. Emile Baladi, HSC/XR. Submit your concerns, other than contractual or technical, to HSC/XR, Attn: Ombudsman (Mr. Emile Baladi), Brooks AFB TX 78235-5000. Include a copy of this CBD announcement as a reference. (0193)

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