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69 -- SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS FOR THE DISTRIBUTED MISSION TRAINING E-3 AWACS MISSION TRAINING CENTER SOL F33657-98-R-0021 POC Contact, Lt Jarens D Murray, Contract Negotiator (937)255-3788 ext. 280/Email-MurrayJD@ASC-YW.WPAFB.AF.MIL, or Paul A. Weikert,Contracting Officer(937)255-2885 ext.272,fax (937) 656-7538/Email-WeikerPA@ASC-YW.WPAFB.AF.MIL MEMORANDUM FOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMENCE COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY P .O. BOX 5999 CHICAGO, IL 60680 FROM: ASC/PKMB Building 16 2275 D Street Ste 1 Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7233 SUBJECT: Synopsis -- Sources Sought 1. R!! 2. 0504!! 3. 98!! 4. GPO391030!! 5. 45433-7111!! 6. 69!! 7. ASC/YWI, Building 11, 2240 B Street Suite 7, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7111!! 8. 69- Sources Sought Synopsis for the Distributed Mission Training E-3 AWACS Mission Training Center!! 9. F33657-98-R-0021 10. N/A!! 11. Contact, Lt Jarens D. Murray, Contract Negotiator (937)255-3788 ext. 280/Email-MurrayJD@ASC-YW.WPAFB.AF.MIL, or Paul A. Weikert, Contracting Officer (937) 255-2885 ext.272, fax (937) 656-7538/Email- WeikerPA@ASC-YW.WPAFB.AF.MIL!! 12. N/A!! 13. N/A!! 14. N/A!! 15. N/A!! 16. N/A!! 17. The Training Systems Product Group (TSPG) Distributed Mission Training (DMT) program team is seeking information from potential sources for the DMT E-3A AWACS Mission Training Center. The Government intendsto enter into a service contract for the Distributed Mission Training (DMT) E-3 AWACS Mission Training Center (MTC) Program through a full and open competition to provide training capability for mission crew operators. The E-3 MTC shall be fully interoperable with the F-15C MTC's at Eglin AFB and Tyndall AFB and capable of operating in other future DMT environments. The initial training capability will be located at Tinker AFB and shall include 14 high fidelity mission crew operator consoles concurrent with E-3 operational aircraft configuration and 6 Instructor Operating stations. Following closely will be the Tyndall AFB requirement of 14 high fidelity operator consoles concurrent with E-3 operational aircraft configuration and 7 Instructor Operating stations. The E-3 MTC shall enable E-3 full mission crews, small teams and individuals to train in a stand alone mode or networked mode with other DMT participants through a full range of composite force employment options. The crew stations and the instructorstations must be capable of autonomous or networked connections. There will be prices established for additional sites. Instructors and courseware will be provided by the Air Force. The government does not intend to acquire the hardware or software but to buy commercial simulation service availability. The contractor will be responsible for system operation instruction; system maintenance; product baseline management; and training system modification. The contractor will keep training devices concurrent with the changing configuration of the fielded E-3 consoles and insert new technology, as it becomes available. A program to rapidly insert and validate new technology and/or systems that improve training capability and facilitates hardware/software concurrency is required. Fielding of an initial training capability at Tinker AFB is required by Jun 99. All information for the E-3 AWACS program will be posted on the Pre-award Information Exchange System (PIXS) http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixlibr/awacsmtc/awacsmtc.asp To meet our schedule we intend to utilize the subject bulletin board as the primary means of timely communications. Offerors will have no more than 30 days to respond to the solicitation. As a minimum, the selected contractor will be required to hold a secret facility clearance in order to bid this program. As no formal source selection discussions are anticipated it is very important that interested parties understand the government requirements and propose an approach and business arrangement consistent with the solicitation. The government intends to contract for the acquisition of simulation service availability only, and anticipates adequate price competition will be sufficient to justify price reasonableness. The Air Force does not intend to take title to the hardware or software required perform subject training. An incentive will be considered that would reward system performance, reasonable pricing and availability of the system. As part of the source selection process, the government will require interested parties to demonstrate existing capability in order to assess the realism of the proposed schedule and prospective training utility. The agenda and location of an industry day will be posted when available. Companies interested in proposing should submit a capability statement describing how you, or your team's, unique capabilities can satisfies the Air Force DMT E-3 AWACS MTC simulation requirements. The capability statement should address how your company, or a team led by your company, will address and solve perceived technical and systematic problems. The capability statement should also address any significant or unique capabilities and experiences, your company or team, may possess to fulfill the DMT requirements described above. Capability statements should not be more than 10 pages in length single sided, double spaced, on standard size paper, using No. 10 Courier New font. Request you submit the abstracts by close of business 20 May 1998 to the attention of Mr. Paul A. Weikert at the address provided above. This is not a request for proposal. Do not send price proposals. In keeping with the DMT program team's commitment to acquisition streamlining the team is considering the use of commercial procedures in the acquisition of the services described above. One of the key elements in effectively utilizing FAR Part 12 commercial procedures involves conducting sound market research early in the acquisition process. In that vein we request companies provide the following information to assist us in our market research: a) Information concerning the scope, period of performance, and dollar value about actual commercial networking and simulation efforts you have participated in or are knowledgeable about similar to the AWACS program. This information should be provided with the capability statement, but will not count against the page limitation for the statement; b) Samples of standard commercial practices and/or commercial contract terms and conditions which you may have used in previous commercial contracts which the Government may consider in developing the solicitation and model contract ( specific areas of interest are commercial practices in quality assurance and warranties, financing and billing arrangements, associate contractor agreements, and procedures for service provider upgrades to training capabilities). An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate concerns during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC's Ombudsman, Mr. Stephen Plaisted, ASC/SYI, bldg 572, 1790 10th Street, Rm 101.01, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7630; E-mail: stepehen.plaisaid@ascsy.wpafb.af.mil; phone: (937) 255-9095 with serious concerns only!! (0126)

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