U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, ATTN: SMDC-CM-CT, PO Box 1500 Huntsville, AL 35807-3801, 106 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-1990

A -- EXTENDED AIR DEFENSE TEST BED (EADTB) SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE, AND ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM POC Belinda Williams, Contract Specialist, (256) 955-1187, W. L. Schick, Contracting Officer, (256) 955-1187 The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command plans to contract on a full and open competition basis for effort titled, " Extended Air Defense Testbed (EADTB) Support, Maintenance and Enhancement Program." EADTB requirements are characterized by software development reaching maturity, continuing user enhancement and increasing user support requirements. Contractor will be required to efficiently manage and field a team of software engineers, developers, testers, hardware technicians and support staff, with expertise in Ada programming, ORACLE Database, and EADTB applications necessary to continue to meet the increasing number of growing U.S. Government modeling and simulation studies and events for critical space and missile defense issue resolution. Expectations are that EADTB software, which is comprised of approximately 2 million lines of Ada code, will require inclusion of 50 to 80 Software Change Requests (SCR) annually which would drive software deliveries. User support requirements are growingand include activities such as direct user support, user problem resolution, site support, resolution of open items (software trouble reports, etc.) user experiments and study support, creation and revision of technical specifications and documentation, recreation and revision of on-line resources such as user documentation and EADTB Web Browser, formalized training, site installations to possibly include configuration management. Contractor shall be required to support the government at demonstrations of EADTB capabilities to include user conferences, symposiums, and training and exercise events. A Cost-Plus-Award Fee type contract with a basic period of performance for five years with surge options and an additional option to extend the period of performance for five years is planned. Contractor will be required to possess a TOP SECRET facility clearance and a SECRET safeguarding capability. Foreign participation at the prime level will not be allowed. Contractors planning to propose as primes should notify U. S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, P. O. Box 1500, ATTN: Belinda Williams, Huntsville, AL 35807 within seven days after publication of this synopsis and provide a point of contact for subcontracting opportunities. A list of potential primes will be posted at the command website at www.smdc.army.mil, business opportunities, RFPs, subcontracting opportunities. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued at www.smdc.army.mil, business opportunities, RFPs the week of March 15, 1999. See Note 25. Posted 02/25/99 (I-SN302259). (0056)

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