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D -- SPACE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE Sol. FA255096R0001. Due 121096. Contact Raylene Hillhouse, Contracting Officer (719) 567-3840 or Beth Wood, Contract Specialist (719) 567-2316. Request for Proposal (RFP) for solicitation #FA2550-96-R0001 for the Space Operations and Maintenance (SOM) acquisition. The 50th Space Wing 50 (SW) is seeking qualified contractors to provide services required for satellite operations, operations support, maintenance and training for the 50 SW organizations at Onizuka Air Station (OAS), California; Camp Parks Communications Annex (CPCA), Pleasanton, California; Falcon Air Force Base (FAFB), Colorado; Vandenburg Air Force Base (VAFB), California; and the Global Positioning System (GPS) Back-up Master Control Station (BUMCS) at Gaithersburg, Maryland. The 50 SW organizations provide support for the Department of Defense (DoD), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), United Kingdom, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other space organizations. The purpose of this announcement is to solicit offerors who can perform: 1) operations to include on-console operations for several satellite programs NATO III and IV, SKYNET IV, the Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS) II, and DSCS III (partial constellation); launch and early orbit operations for DSCS III, Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) and SKYNET IV; backup operations for DSCS III (full constellation), Defense Support Program (DSP), and GPS; conduct data flow operations for the Space Transportation System (STS), the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), and other Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) external users; and on-orbit verification, anomaly resolution and payload telemetry calibration; 2) operations support to include satellite support planning, scheduling, and reporting; attitude and orbital analysis; data product (i.e., element set/vector data, ground station, identification, electromagnetic/radio frequency interference data, velocity change calculations, etc.) data generation, data handling, data manipulation, and data maintenance; and communications architecture and configuration technical support for AFSCN users; 3) maintenance to include organizational hardware, Level I software, and Level I database maintenance for AFSCN common user equipment/software and mission unique equipment/software for multiple Satellite Operations Centers (SOCs); non-continuous Level I software, and Level I database maintenance for AFSCN common user equipment/software and mission unique equipment/software for the GPS BUMCS; Level I software maintenance and technical support for the crew training emulator systems (CTE) at VAFB; and, logistics support for the equipment and facility at CPCA; 4) training to include simulation/scenario generation and maintenance for mainframe systems (i.e., the generic telemetry simulator (GTSim), training augmentation devices (TADs), etc.), and the personal computer based system, CTE, to support launch rehearsal and Government training; develop and conduct training programs in support of this contract. The Security requirement for this contract is Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information/Single Scope Background Investigation (TS/SCI/SSBI). The Government will conduct a site tour from 3 Nov 96-8 Nov 96. The site-visit will include organizations at Onizuka AS, CA; CPCA, Pleasanton, CA; FAFB, CO; and GPS BUMCS facility at Gaithersburg, MD. Site visit requests must be submitted in writing to Raylene Hillhouse, 66 Falcon Parkway, Ste 49, Falcon AFB, CO 80912-6649 not later than 3 Oct 96. A Security Clearance of Secret is required for the site-tour. Security Clearance documentation must be submitted to the Contracting Officer not later than 3 Oct 96. A pre-proposal conference is scheduled for 13 Nov 96 at 8:00 a.m., Bldg #T-66, FAFB, CO. Contact Beth Wood at (719)567-2316 for scheduling and information. The Government will have a Bidder's Library located at FAFB, Bldg #T-66 and is available to all offerors. Please contact A1C Rivers at (719)567-3071 to schedule appointments for access to the library. If reproduction is desired, offerors must provide their own copiers as a Government copier will not be available for use. The Government will utilize Headquarters Air Force Space Command's Competition Advocate's Electronic Bulletin Board to release information pertinent to this acquisition. If you do not have access to this bulletin board, please contact Sally Claunch at (719) 554-5325. The Government has the following tentative milestones for this acquisition. (a) Release of the RFP on or about 25 Oct 96, (b) Site-tour 3 Nov 96-8 Nov 96, (c) Pre-proposal Conference 13 Nov 96, (d) Proposals due 10 Dec 96, (e) Award Contract 1 Apr 97, (f) Phase-In 1 Jul 97 - 30 Sep 97. Requests for the Solicitation should be forwarded in writing to Raylene Hillhouse, 66 Falcon Parkway, Ste 49, Falcon AFB, CO, 80912-6649 or by Fax (719) 567-3809, not later than 23 Oct 96 (if you are already on the bidder's list, it is not necessary to forward a request). The RFP will be released in soft copy. If you require a hard copy, written notification must be received not later than 11 Oct 96. Requests by telephone will not be accepted. (267)

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