Directorate Of Contracting/Bldg 1233, Oo-Alc/ 6072 Fir Avenue, Hill Air Force Base, Ut 84056-5820

J -- A10 SOL F42620-99-R-AAAAB POC For copy, Richard Heinze/Lfks/[801]777-5813, For additional information contact Richard Heinze/Lfks/[801]777-5813 This announcement constitutes a Sources Sought Synopsis. The following information is provided to assist potential contractors who have the skills, experience, knowledge and facilities required to successfully complete this effort. SM-ALC, McClellan AFB, CA intends to award a depot level maintenance/modification kit installations contract to support the USAF A-10 Aircraft located in Europe. Sources are being sought for potential offerors who have the skills, experience, knowledge, and facilities to successfully complete the repainting, modification installations, and unscheduled repairs on these aircraft. Facilities required to perform this effort must be within a 400 air mile radius of Spangdahlem AB, Germany. The effort will include, but is not limited to, (1) plastic media blast and repaint, (2) scuff, sand and paint, (3) installation of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System (EGI). It may also include (1) installation of complex aircraft modifications such as Countermeasures Set (CMS), Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS), Situational Awareness Data Link (SADL), Airborne Data Recorder (ADR), On-Board Oxygen Generating System (OBOGS), Stores Management System/Weapons Data Bus, Targeting Pod, (2) landing gear replacement, flight control refurbishment and structural repair, etc., (3) engineering services to support the Maintenance Assistance workload, and (4) unscheduled repairs. The Air Force will acquire these services through either an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity or Requirements contract awarded under AFFARS, Appendix BB, Source Selection Procedures. It is intended that the contract will be awarded under a Fixed Price type pricing arrangement with a Time & Material line item to accommodate unidentified/ unscheduled efforts and a cost reimbursable, no fee line item for unplanned travel expenses. Potential offerors are requested to provide a summary of the capabilities and facilities they have which will allow them to perform the aforementioned A-10 Depot Maintenance and Installs. Any information which is indicative of the offeror's capabilities to successfully perform this effort will be accepted. The government does not intend to contract on the basis of this request or otherwise pay for the information solicited. Release or distribution of your response will be approved by the contracting officer. Interested parties are requested to submit three copies of the aforementioned summary of capabilities and facilities to Richard G. Heinze, 6072 Fir Avenue, Bldg 1233, Hill AFB, UT 84056-5820 no later than 10 working days after publication of this notice. No telephone or FAX responses will be accepted. Posted 10/28/98 (I-SN266084). (0301)

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