ACC Contracting Squadron, 130 Douglas Street, Suite 400, Langley AFB, VA 23665-2791

U -- COCKPIT/CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (CRM) TRAINING AND COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT SOL F44650-99-R0005 POC Capt Bob Beckett, Contract Manager at (757)764-4853; or, Ms. Della Shelton, Contracting Officer at (757)764-8041 WEB: Click here to access the ACC CONS Business Opportunities, http://www.acc.af.mil/public/lg/Cons/welcome.htm. E-MAIL: Click here to email the contract manager, robert.beckett@langley.af.mil. Air Combat Command (ACC) is serving as the lead MAJCOM in purchasing cockpit/crew resource management (CRM) courseware development and training for ACC, United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and Air Education And Training Command (AETC). The period of performance will cover a two year base period with four, one-year options. The government expects to make award on or about 15 Jun 99, with a performance start date of 1 Oct 99. This action will be issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP) on or about 6 Jan 99. All applicable solicitation documents including the RFP, Draft RFP, and Bidders' Library will be released via the internet at the ACC CONS Business Opportunities web page linked hereto. Interested offerors are responsible for monitoring this web page for the release of the solicitation and all subsequent amendments and correspondence related to the solicitation. Offeror's must download the RFP from the web page no hard copies will be mailed. Interested firms not already on the Bidders' List (located on the web page) must provide their company name, address, point of contact, phone number, fax number and business size to Capt Bob Beckett at robert.beckett@langley.af.mil. The government encourages interested parties to review and provide comments on all draft RFP documents provided on the internet. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for this requirement is 8299, Flight Training Services, which has a small business size standard of $18.5M . The government seeks industry input to determine if this acquisition should be a total set-aside under the auspice of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 19. Therefore, any small business which intends to act as prime contractor for this requirement must submit a capability statement which reaches this office not later than 4:00PM on 20 Nov 98. This capability statement must provide evidence that the small business can perform at least 51 percent of the work required and is certified and qualified as a small business concern in SIC 8299. The government will evaluate the capability statement for the following to assess interested small business's ability to perform these services: evidence of past and current experience in developing and conducting CRM training in similar scope and scale (reference draft RFP on internet); the CRM expertise and experience of courseware development and instructor personnel; corporate assets and resources which can be dedicated to or obtained for this effort; any perceived risks/limiting factors in performing these services and your ability to mitigate them; and the ability to provide an overall fair market price to the government. The capability statement may not be longer than 5 type-written pages. Drawings, charts, illustrations, etc. count toward the page limit. This information will be used for market research purposes only and will not be used in any resultant proposal evaluation later. All information will be protected and safeguarded as source selection sensitive in accordancewith FAR 3.104. Statements may be mailed to: ACC CONS/LGCU, Attn: Capt Bob Beckett, 130 Douglas Street, Suite 401, Langley AFB VA 23665. Statements may also be emailed in MicroSoft Word v. 7.0 format to robert.beckett@langley.af.mil. Posted 11/12/98 (W-SN270868). (0316)

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