Naval Air Warfare Center TSD, Code 257, 12350 Research Parkway, Orlando FL 32826-3275

J -- FIELDED TRAINING SYSTEMS SUPPORT (FTSS) SERVICES FOR NAVY AND NON-NAVY CUSTOMERS AT MULTIPLE TRAINING SITES SOL N61339-99-R-0018 DUE 071499 POC Contract Specialist-John Gralin, 407-380-4082; Contracting Officer-Alan Arblaster, 407-380-8170 The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division has a requirement to provide Fielded Training Systems Support (FTSS) services for Navy and non-Navy customers at multiple training sites around the world. These FTSS services include Contractor Operation and Maintenance of Simulators (COMS), Contract Simulator Instruction (CSI), Training Device Relocations, Minor Modifications, and other support. An Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity Contract (ID/IQC) with multiple awards is anticipated. A partial small business set-aside is planned for this procurement. A minimum of two of the awardees will be small businesses. Current estimates are that the ceiling of the acquisition will be $400,000,000 inclusive of all contracts awarded, over a ten-year period (one five-year base period and five one-year options). While the total length of the contract may span over ten years, the ordering period for the task orders will be restricted to the first five-year period. Awardees will be required to provide theentire range of FTSS services described above. To conserve bid and proposal costs, the awardees will be allowed to "no bid" on task orders. Presently, FTSS service efforts are provided by numerous, individual five-year contracts. It is anticipated that future FTSS requirements, including follow-on acquisitions to current FTSS service efforts, will be afforded the opportunity to come under the subject FTSS ID/IQC contract. The acquisition base will include aviation, surface, sub-surface and ground FTSS service efforts handled by the Navy and Marine Corps. This will be a competitive, negotiated acquisition with a contract award based upon the best value "trade-off analysis" evaluation criteria stipulated in Section M of the forth coming Request For Proposal (RFP). Selection of offers for award will be based on the evaluation of written proposals. Each offeror will be required to provide detailed information on his technical and management capabilities to include past performance and pricing information. Sampletasks will be utilized to assess portions of the offerors' technical and management capability. The government reserves the right to award without discussions. A draft version of both the Statement of Work and Request for Proposal will be released on the World Wide Web at www.ntsc.navy.mil/contract/procure.htm on or about 5 April 1999. A Pre-solicitation conference is anticipated to be held at NAWCTSD, Orlando, FL, during the last week of April 1999. Specific dates, times, and places will be announced in future CBD announcements. A pre-proposal conference/site survey is anticipated during the first week of June 1999. Specific dates, times, and places will be announced in future CBD announcements and in the solicitation. Contract award is scheduled for December 1999.The SIC Code for this procurement is 8711, and the small business size standard is $20 million.***** Posted 03/25/99 (W-SN312842). (0084)

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