HQ ESC/AXK, 5 Eglin Street, Bldg. 1704, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116

A -- PROCESS EGINEERING SUPPORT TO THE TACOM LIFE CYCLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CENTER (LCSEC) SOL F19628-96-M-0162 POC James A. Henslee, STARS Program Manager, 617-377-8563; Michael J. Garrish, Contracting Officer, 617-377-7061; Allorria L. Harris, Contract Specialist, 617-377-3847. Electronic Systems Center (ESC), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), intends to negotiate with Software Engineering Technology, Inc., Mill Bldg, Suite 304, 2200 Sutherland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37919 on a sole-source basis to award a purchase order to provide technical services to the TACOM Life Cycle Software Engineering Center (LCSEC). The LCSEC at Picatinny Arsenal is a representative DOD Software Support Center (SSC) that is working to apply a more formal approach to software support. The LCSEC has demonstrated significant process improvements by implementing Cleanroom Software Engineering (CSE) methods in the IMBC project. This task will provide to the LCSEC support for their evolving in-house process engineering efforts and provide analyses and support in areas identified by the government as important initiatives in the effort to raise the LCSEC's process maturity level. The contractor shall provide training, coaching, and consultation in advanced Cleanroom Software Engineering methods. Software Engineering Technology shall also provide to the government Cleanroom Process analysis and support in specific areas of integrating or combining test data, software architecture, and analyses of methods of defining reusable subsystems as hierarchies of black boxes. The authority for this plan of action is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)(FAR 6.302-I)(a)(2)(iii), only one or a limited number of qualified sources, and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. If a firm other than Software Engineering Technology, Inc., feels it meets this criteria, it should submit a qualification package as explained below. The Government is contemplating a firm fixed price contract at a total estimated cost of $99K. Replies from firms interested in this requirement must be received within fifteen (15) days after publication of this notice. Please submit your document to ESC/AXK, (Attn: Allorria L. Harris), 5 Eglin Street, (Bldg 1704), Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2116. All qualification packages received will be considered by the Government. This announcement is not a solicitation. Responses should consist of a single document consisting of not more than ten (10) pages in total (single-sided) and shall include the following sections: a) A one page table of contents listing the contents in the same order listed above and the page number of the applicable response, b) Sectors providing explicit and concise responses to each area, and c) Detailed response to Note Number 25. No other information is required or desired at this time. The Government intends to solicit those firms meeting the screening criteria in this synopsis. Any offeror initially judged to be unqualified will also be provided a copy of the solicitation upon request and any offer from such a firm will be evaluated without prejudice. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract, nor does it restrict the Government in its ultimate acquisition approach. See Numbered Note(s): 22, 25, 26. (0239)

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