Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, VA 22448-5100

B -- TECHNICAL & ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF THE COMBAT SYSTEM'S ENVIRONMENT FOR WARFIGHTERS AT REDUCED MANNING LEVELS SOL N00178-98-R-2018 DUE 081598 POC Connia Bible, Code SD128, Contract Specialist, (540) 653-7942 WEB: NSWCDD Procurement Division Homepage, http://www.nswc.navy.mil/supply. E-MAIL: Inquiries concerning this synopsis, sd12@nswc.navy.mil. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) has a requirement to provide technical and engineering support to achieve optimal manning strategies for all operational and training systems for the Navy to enhance warfighting capability and reduce costs. Note 1 applies: This requirement is 100% set aside for Small Business. The applicable SIC code is 8711, the size standard is $20M. The contractor will be required to support taskings for the following DOD activities, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, FL, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, VA, and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, CA. The acquisition will result in a five year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to provide technologies and procedures to optimize a combat system's environment for the warfighter at reduced manning levels. Human performance models, metrics, and tools developed under this contract will be valuable in the impact assessments of new and existing Navy systems as well as in technology evaluation of other affordability initiatives. The contract will provide technical and engineering support for the development of human performance models and performance measures that will be incorporated into tools that will support the optimization and affordability of new combat system platform designs. The tools will incorporate human performance issues including methods for knowledge engineering, cognitive task analysis, functional allocation, human requirements analysis, training needs assessment, performance measurement design, decision support design, and system/task design. There will be two mandatory requirements for this acquisition that must be met: (1) The contractor must have a facility with a SECRET facility clearance, and (2) The contractor's key personnel must have a security clearance of SECRET. Work is planned to begin on 1 December 1998. Solicitations and amendments will only be available on the World Wide Web at http:/www.nswc.navy.mil/supply. No hard copies will be provided. Vendors should access the NSWCDD Web site to ensure that they have downloaded all amendments. For solicitations issued after 31 May 1998, DoD will no longer award contracts to Contractors that are not registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. Registration may be done by accessing the CCR Web Site at http://www.acq.osd.mil/ec or via dial up modem at (614) 692-6788, (USER ID: ccrpub; Password: pub2ccri). Any certified value added network (VAN) can be used for registration. A paper registration form may be obtained from the DoD Electronic Commerce Information Center at 1-800-334-3414. Numbered Note 1 applies. (0163)

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