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R -- JOINT TECHNICAL TEST & TRAINING SUP SOL F42650-99-R-7213 POC For copy, See website below.,,, For additional information contact Mike Mcdonough/Pk(2)/[801]777-5923 WEB: Click here to obtain/view solicitation., http://contracting.hill.af.mil/html/5099r7213/serv5099r7213.htm. E-MAIL: Click Here to E-mail Buyer*****, MCDONOUM@HILLWPOS.HILL.AF.MIL. The purpose of this acquisition is to award a consolidated, competitive, contract for efficient and effective range support at the Nevada Test and Training Tange (NTTR) (formerly referred to as the Nellis Air Force Range); air force flight test center (afftc), Edwards Air Force Base, California; Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR); and China Lake electronic combat range, California. The contract shall also support certain assets located on Nellis AFB, NV and Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, NV. This consolidated effort is expected to produce a contract that provides streamlined government management and performance based contracting to achieve: A. Better customer support for the warfighter; b. Reduced government oversight; increased insight; c. Operational efficiencies/synergies; d. Cost savings. The requirement consists of, but is not limited to: Management/administration, technical support, and engineering services. 1. Management/administration to include: a) Program/project task management;b) configuration/data management; c) quality management; d) security management; e) safety management; f) test and training management process; g) maintenance management; h) logistics management; i) environmental management; j) training management. 2. Technical support services shall include: a) Telemetry systems; b) telecommunications systems; c) signal monitoring/collection/analysis; d) threat systems; e) computer systems; f) instrumentation systems; g) mission control/coordination; h) technical materiel control; i) data analysis and reporting; j)tspi and scoring systems; k)flightline support m) ancillary technical support. 3. Engineering services to include: a)Systems engineering; b) software development engineering; c) development engineering; d) environmental engineering; e) test engineering; f) modeling and simulation; g) ancillary engineering support; Potential offerors are expected to have a broad working knowledge/skills of test and training range environments. The anticipated contract type is cost plus award-fee combined with award-term. The period of performance will extend from 01 Oct 00 through 30 Sep 05 for the basic period. Using an award-term incentive approach, there will be opportunities to earn up to nine (9) additional years during the life-cycle of the contract. The end result being a total contract period of up to 14 years possible for outstanding performance. A draft request for proposal (rfp), to include draft Statement of Objectives (SOO) and draft technical requirements document (trd), are scheduled for release in may 1999. The final rfp will be released in august 1999 with approximate 45 -- 60 day proposal preparation period. This acquisition will be accomplished in a two phased approach. Offerors will be required to submit proposals only on a portion of the government's total requirement as specified in phase 1. The areas and types of work identified in phase 1 will be representative of the total effort. Only those offerors who meet the established threshold performance requirements and are otherwise determined to be in the competitive range will be given the opportunity to compete for the government's full requirement. The range of additional requirements, to be released in phase 2, could be an increase of as much as 40% of the requirements, depending on funding availability. There are national security considerations and a facility security clearance will be required. Information concerning this solicitation will be posted to the hill air force base web site http://contracting.hill.af.mil/html/5099r7213/serv5099r7213.htm information available will include, but not be limited to: A draft SOO, TRD, locations of bidders libraries, and information pertaining to an industry day. The purpose of the industry day is to identify interested sources and to involve industry in planning and preparation of the acquisition. Contractors (both prime and subcontractor) interested in attending the industry day should submit their request by electronic mail mcdonoum@hillwpos.hill.af.mil or in writing tothe address identified on the web site. Information concerning this requirement will be incrementally released as it becomes available. Posted 02/26/99 (I-SN302853). (0057)

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