Air Armament Center, AAC/WGK, 102 West D Ave, Suite 300, Eglin AFB, FL 32542-6808

81 -- ARMY T-53 AND T-55 HELICOPTER ENGINE SHIPPING & STORAGE CONTAINERS AND OPTIONS FOR AGM-142 CONTAINERS SOL f08626-99-R-0130 POC Contract Specialist Charlotte A. Puthoff, 850-882-8515 x2123 or Contracting Officer Terri C. Brown, 850-882-8515 x2131 The Air Armament Center, WGK is anticipating the purchase of approximately two hundred fifty containers for the Army's T-53 and T-55 Helicopter Engine with a priced option for Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC). Additionally, WGK anticipates the purchase of over 100 containers related to the AGM-142 missile system as priced options for the U.S. and FMS. The requirements for the containers for both programs are as follows: A technical library is available at 368 Adams Ave, Valparaiso, FL 32580, with a technical data package consisting of production specifications and engineering drawings. Please contract Ms Wicker of Semcor, Inc (850) 678-7887. Level III drawings and prime item product fabrication specifications are available. This requirement includes fabrication of production containers after successfully fabricating one preproduction sample container for each container design, completing qualification preproduction tests, and completing the physical configuration audit. A preproduction sample is required (about 160 days after contract award), with first container delivery within 90 days after preproduction approval/physical configuration audit. All preproduction tests and the physical configuration audit are required prior to release for production, as identified in the specifications. Source selection procedures (see FAR 15, best value, tradeoff) are currently envisioned. This contract will be a "build to print" firm fixed price contract. Offerors for this contract should be experienced in economical fabrication techniques (welding, machining, sheet metal cutting, etc.), and are required to build aluminum containers to specs. These are complex items due to the flatness and straightness requirements, and the necessity for the container to seal (a leak check will be required). This is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside under SIC Code 3443 for businesses up to 500 employees. Interested parties must submit a written or e-mail request for solicitaiton to the contracting office no later than 45 days from the publication of this announcement or should submit a present and past performance volume to be added to the list. Requests received will be honored on a first come first served basis if additional RFP copies are available. The RFP release date is anticipated to be in May 1999. Please check the web site (see below) for updated to this date as necessary. The RFP is expected to be released on a CD ROM. Other forms of the RFP will be provided upon special request. (See web site for specific details.) Each offeror shall submit a present and past performance volume (P&PPV) as a separate volume no later than 5 May 1999. Offerors are cautioned that the Government will use the P&PFV data provided by the offeror and additional data obtained from other sources in the development of the performance risk assessments. Problems found in the data which have not been addressed by the offeror will be assumed still to be in existence. The offeror shall provide the following P&PPV data for each past or current contract proposed. Responses are limited to 1 page maximum per P&PPV contract addressed and a maximum of 12 pages for the entire P&PPV volume. Each contract in the P&PPV shall include: Administrative Data: Company/Division name; program title; contracting agency or company; contract number; brief description of the contracting effort; type of contract; period of performance; original dollar value and current dollar value; original completion date and current completion date; name, address, and telephone number of customer's PCO, ACO and Government program manager or commercial equivalent point of contact. Offerors shall explain which aspects of the P&PPV contracts are relevant to the proposed effort and describe experience during the past 5 years in building aluminum products that require manufacturing processes such as machining, welding, shearing, etc. The offeror shall describe their history of meeting or failing to meet production schedules on previous contracts. The offeror may include a discussion of how past problems were resolved and risks were mitigated. No further CBD announcement is envisioned prior to release of the RFP. Information pertaining to this effort and all relevant updates can be found on the Internet at http://eglinpk.eglin.af.mil/OPS/RFP.HTM . Direct all request for solicitations and routine communication concerning this acquisition to Charlotte A. Puthoff, Precision Strike Contract Specialist, (e-mail address: puthoff@eglin.af.mil,) at 102 West D Ave., Suite 168, Eglin AFB, FL 32542-6807, phone (850) 882-8515 x2123 and fax (850) 882-5243 (must call to confirm receipt), or Terri Brown, Contracting Officer at (850) 882-8515 x2131. Collect calls will not be accepted. An ombudsman has been appointed to address concern from offers or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but communicates contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendationsto the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman shall maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the proposals or in the source selection process. The ombudsman is Col. Christopher Caravello, AAC/CV, at 101 West D Ave. Suite 116 Eglin AFB FL 32542-5495; his phone number is (850) 882-0662. See Notes 1 and 26!! Posted 03/01/99 (W-SN303233). (0060)

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