U. S. Department Of Commerce, NOAA, Central Administrative Support Center, 601 East 12th St., CC31, Rm. 1756, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

V -- CHARTER OF TWIN OTTER AND CREW SOL 51WCNA906020SMA DUE 120498 POC Sheila Anderson 816-26-7267, ext. 240 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), serving under the United States Department of Commerce, operates a small fleet of aircraft to support its environmental data collection effort. Due to the limited number of NOAA aircraft available for tasking, some proposed research projects can not be accommodated using AOC assets. This requirement is to provide, modify, maintain, and operate an aircraft in support of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL). Under this requirement, the contractor is to provide a flight crew consisting of two qualified Twin Otter pilots and a DeHavilland DHC-6 300 series Twin Otter Aircraft. The aircraft and flight crew shall arrive at the Miami Aircraft Corporation Fixed Base Operator (FBO) in Opa Locka, Florida on or about December 15, 1998 for the start of the aircraft modification period. NOAA will require exclusive use of the aircraft and flight crew from December 15, 1998 through February 20, 1999, while the aircraft undergoes modification, instrument installation, flight testing, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification, and calibration. The costs associated with the flight test, certification, flight crew, and aircraft operation shall be the responsibility of the vendor. The major modifications involve replacement of the left wing tip, right rear entry door, and aft baggage compartment door with Government supplied modified replacement parts. The modified parts shall be replaced with the original parts at the completion of each dedicated time period and returned to the Government. The contractor shall be required to have modifications made to the airframe, as required by the FAA, to additional attachment points for securing the instruments fixed to the Government supplied modified parts. This modification and flight test effort will continue through January 31, 1999. It is estimated that the flight time dedicated to the test program will be limited to 10 flight hours. At the completion of the instrumentation installation, the aircraft will commence a 25 flight hour calibration effort in the Gulf of Mexico on February 1, 1999 through February 15, 1999. After the calibration flights are completed, all instrumentation will be removed and the aircraft may be returned to its original condition by the contractor. On or about November 1, 1999, the vendor shall re-instrument the same aircraft used for the original calibration tests and shall provide exclusive use of this aircraft to ETL through December 10, 1999. It is estimated that this segment of the project will require 100 hours of flight time. All operating costs for these flights shall be the responsibility of the Contractors. The Government will provide all instrumentation. Major modifications to the aircraft include but are not limited to: 1) Aft baggage compartment door pod; 2) Left wing tip pod; 3) Right rear entry door pod; 4) Four electronic equipment racks. These pods will carry Government provided instrumentation that will be used for NOAA ETLs Shoaling Wave Experiment. Because these pods are already fabricated and fit to a DHC-6 series 300 Twin Otter, only this specific type of aircraft will be considered. The aircraft must have seating available for three (3) scientific crew members. The aircraft shall also consist of the following: 1) 21 inch vertical (downward looking) hole (equivalent to a DeHavilland Wild Camera Provision SOO-6045) to support additional instrumentation; 2) GPS navigation unit with data output for mission equipment; 3) Cabin intercom system (three station minimum; 4) Provisions for electrical power to be used by mission equipment. This requirement is not set aside for small business. SIC code 4789 applies. The solicitation will be issued on or about November 23, 1998 and will close around December 4, 1998. All responsible sources may submit a bid which will be considered by this agency. All requests for bid documents must be in writing. Requests may be faxed to 816-426-7530. Posted 11/10/98 (W-SN270038). (0314)

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