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A -- LABORATORY TESTING AND ENGINEERING ANALYSES; THESE REQUIREMENTS GENERATE A NEED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF PREDEFINED MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL TESTS OF MATERIALS. SOL N000421-97-R-1271 DUE 051697 POC Ms. Chris Marshall, Contract Specialist, (301) 342-1825, X163 or Mr. Bill Aumand, Contracting Officer, (301) 342-1825, X106 E-MAIL: Marshall_ Christine%PAX9B@MR.NAWCAD.NAVY.MIL, Marshall_Christine%PAX9B@MR.NAWCAD.NAVY.MIL. The Navy Aerospace Materials Division program (Code 4.3.4) of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, MD requires engineering and technical services for Laboratory Testing and Engineering Analyses. The effort to be solicited provides for a base year and four option years of support. NOTICE: At the end of this synopsis this note will appear: END OF SYNOPSIS FULL TEXT VERSION. If the copy that the prospective offeror receives stops before this point, s/he has not received a complete document. This is usually the result of editing by on line synopsis publishing services. If this occurs, please call the Contract Specialist, Ms. Chris Marshall at (301) 342-1825 X 163 and a full version of this document will be faxed to you. REQUIREMENTS: SOW 1.0: The scope of this effort includes laboratory tests and engineering tasks, experiment design, materials processing and characterization, chemical formulation, equipment operation and repair, data taking and analysis, engineering literature searches, and industrial surveys. SOW 2.0 Applicable Documents as outlined in the Statement of Work. SOW 3.0 Tasks include the following; SOW 3.1, The Contractor shall perform polymeric materials fabrication and testing that shall include but is not limited to chemical solutions, lubrication greases. SOW 3.2, The contractor shall provide a materials engineering services on greases solvents, and lubricating and hydraulic fluid systems . SOW 3.3, The contractor shall provide support to the Operational Chemicals Laboratory program. SOW 3.4, The contractor shall provide support to the Surface Interaction Laboratory. SOW 3.5, The contractor shall perform the engineering/technical tasks associated with nondestructive testing and nondestructive evaluation. SOW 3.6, The contractor shall perform Mtechnician tasks that include but is not limited to mechanical testing, data taking, machining tasks. SOW 3.7 The contractor shall perform scanning electron and optical microscope examination of fracture specimens. SOW 3.8 The contractor shall perform high temperature materials engineering technician tasks. SOW 3.9 The contractor shall perform engineering and technician tasks for processing and characterization of high temperature propulsion materials. SOW 3.10 The contractor shall perform processing tasks that include but is not limited to prepare metals, ceramics and intermetallic alloys, maintenance on processing equipment. SOW 3.11 The contractor shall perform tasks associated with materials characterization that include but is not limited to operate and maintain the transmission electron microscopy facilities, prepare specimens using state of the art techniques including ion milling, twin jet polishing and microtoming, operate and maintain the X-ray diffraction laboratory. SOW 3.12 The contractor shall perform avionics corrosion control test, including collection and plotting. SOW 3.13 The contractor shall provide engineering support of composite and polymeric materials for use in Naval Aircraft. SOW 3.14 The contractor shall perform tasks related to advanced composite materials and adhesives. SOW 3.15 The contractor shall perform test and evaluation of polymers used for wind screens and canopies submitted for qualification to Military Specifications MIL-P-25690 and MIL-P-8184. SOW 3.16 The contractor shall provide for an on-site supervisor and/or back-up. SOW 4.0 The contractor shall provide all results and data obtained to the cognizant Government engineer. LABOR CATEGORIES AND ESTIMATED LEVEL OF EFFORT The following list covers the Level of Effort for the Base and each of the four option years. [1] Materials Engineer @ 2000 hours [2] Mechanical Engineer @ 800 hours [3] Chemical Engineer @ 2000 hours [4] Chemist @ 4000 hours [5] Physical Scientist @ 0 hours [6] Materials Engineering Technician @ 4000 hours [7] Mechanical Engineering Technician @ 2000 hours [8] Physical Science Technician @ 4000 hours [9] Electron Microscopist/Technician @ 2000 hours [10] Electronics Technician @ 2000 hours [11] On-Site Supervisor @ 520 hours. The total estimated level of effort for the Base Year is 23,320 hours. The total estimated for Option Year One is 25,320 hours. The total estimated for Option Year Two is 25,320 hours. The total estimated for Option Year Three is 25,320 hours. The total estimated for Option Year Four is 25,320 hours. The total for the entire effort is 124,600 hours. These estimates and requirements are preliminary only and are subject to change in the solicitation. The proposed solicitation is a 100% Set Aside for Small Business concerns. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this effort is 8711 which has a size standard of $20.5 Million in sales. Interested Small Business concerns should direct all requests for copies of the solicitation to Ms. Chris Marshall, Contract Specialist, Contracts Competency, Code 2.5.4.2.2K, Bldg. 588, Suite 2, NAWCAD, 47253 Whalen Road Unit 588, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1463. The response date of 16 May 1997 is the estimated time at which the agency anticipates release of the subject solicitation. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered by the agency. Solicitation requests may be faxed Ms. Chris Marshall at (301) 342-1864 or 1847. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED OR RETURNED. ALL PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO USE INTERNET TO RESPOND. All internet responses must provide the return Internet address and mailing address in the body of the response. Internet responses without a return address will not be recognized. The solicitation will be made available over the Internet in a Word 6.0 format and will reside on the NAVAIR Home Page residing on the World Wide Web (WWW) server which may be accessed using client browsers such as MOSAIC. Offerors who have requested a copy to the RFP will be notified via E-Mail when it is released. The WWW address, or URL, for the NAVAIR Home Page is http:/www.navair.navy.mil. END OF SYNOPSIS FULL TEXT VERSION. (0084)

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