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58 -- INSTALLATION OF EQUIPMENT TO SUPPORT THE REGION/SECTOR AIR OPERATIONS CENTER (R/SAOC) MODERNIZATION PROGRAM POC Priscilla Busa, Contract Manager, 617-271-5983; Themoula Poirier, Contracting Officer, 617-271-5984. The Government intends to award, on a sole source basis, site preparation, system installation, system integration, and operational support services for three (3) air operations centers located in Rome, NY, Howard AFB, Panama, and Key West, FL or a to be determined US location. These requirements will be added under an existing effort awarded to Litton Data Systems Agoura Hills, CA on 14 March 1997. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with Litton using other than full and open competition procedures pursuant to 10 USC 2304 (c)(1) as implemented by the Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Under the existing contract, Litton is currently planning, designing and developing the Region/Sector Air Operations Center (R/SAOC) Systems and operational support. Litton's design will eventually interoperate with the Defense Information (DII) Core Operating Environment (COE) and comply with the Global Command and Control System standards and architectures. No Engineering Data for the R/SAOC Systems isavailable since it has not been developed. The Government intends to award this action as a Supplemental Agreement to Contract No. F19628-97-C-0031 under which Litton is currently providing the same type of systems. Not withstanding the above, if your firm believes it could accomplish this effort in the required schedule and budget constraints, submit a qualification package to the above address not later than 15 days from the publication of this notice. The Government anticipates contract award during the second quarter of fiscal year 1998. 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 contractor 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 responses or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Col Lee H. Hughes, ESC/CX, (617) 377-5106. The Ombudsman should be contacted only with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the Program Manager (Lt Col Koble) and/or the Contracting Officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. See Numbered Note(s): 22, 26. (0267)

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