BIG CROW ELECTRONIC WARFARE/ELECTROMAGNETICS GENERAL SUPPORT Maj. Ronald K. Unruh, Contracting Officer, (505) 846-6879, R. Hauck, Contract Specialist, (505) 846-2147, Greg Frye, Technical POC, (505) 846-8494. Phillips Laboratory/PKWC, Directorate of Contracting, Advanced Weapons & Survivability Division, 2251 Maxwell Avenue SE, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5773. This announcement is in anticipation of soliciting an acquisition for Electronic Warfare/Electromagnetics General Support for the US Army BIG CROW Program Office (BCPO) located on Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. A draft RFP, consisting of Sections L and M and the Statement of Work only, will be released for review and comment by 6 August 1996. Comments on the draft RFP are strongly encouraged and should be addressed to the Contracting Officer no later than 16 August 1996. Small business and 8(a) firms interested in a copy of the RFP must make their request in writing to the Contracting Officer. They must also provide the following in addition to the request: The company point of contact name, telephone number, mailing address, fax number, e-mail address, assigned commercial and government entity (cage) code, their business size or non-profit situation under SIC code 8731, 500 employees. This includes any 8(a), small and small disadvantaged business, women-owned business or historically black colleges and universities/minority institutions. Any prospective offeror must have key personnel that can be upgraded to a Top Secret clearance within 12 months of contract award and have a facility clearance of Secret at time of contract award. Two awards are anticipated to be made as a result of the qualified responses. This acquisition has been set aside for small business. Equal awards, by level of effort (LOE), will be divided between 8(a) and small business contractors. It is anticipated that at least one award will be made in each of these categories, however, if no 8(a) firms are deemed able to demonstrate the technical, management, financial, and facility capabilities necessary to meet the criteria identified in Section M of the RFP in a manner most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered, the government will award to two (2) small businesses. Foreign companies are advised that they will not be allowed to participate as the prime contractor. This effort will consist of research and development support in the areas of electromagnetic (EM) and electronic warfare (EW-E3) systems. The scope of this acquisition is limited to aspects of EW investigation system analysis, interface development, system integration, requirement definition and the application of engineering design and development to support the requirement definition. This effort will support the BCPO in EW vulnerability investigations, EW research testing and EW developmental/operational testing in the areas of electronic attack (EA), electronic protection (EP) and electronic support (ES). Systems developed under this effort may vary greatly in type and complexity since the requirements will be driven by the EW systems to be tested. The support systems developed, may involve combinations of transmission, receiving and/or instrumentation elements. Systems developed under this acquisition will assist the R&D community in the areas of pre-test analysis, test design, test planning, frequency coordination, test execution (laboratory and field), post-test analysis and report generation. All potential sources must have demonstrated knowledge and experience in the following areas: 1) EA, 2) EP, 3) ES, 4) system integration to other systems and/or instrumentation/computer elements, 5) demonstrated experience in system analysis/EW investigations, 6) ability to perform in-house EW research and development, fabrication and integration. Information regarding this acquisition will be available at the Phillips Laboratory (PL) internet site. Access to the PL Contracting home page is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.plk.af.mil. The web page and information contained therein is maintained by the Directorate of Contracting at Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. The webmaster for all contracting related information is Sandra Maes, PL/PKM (505) 846-5440. 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 offerors' 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 Col James D. Ledbetter, PL/CV at (505) 846-4964. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have been previously brought to the attention of the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. A formal RFP is expected to be issued by the fourth week in August 1996. For information regarding this anticipated acquisition, please contact either the Contracting Officer or the Contract Specialist.

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