Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Maxwell AFB Contracting Squadron, 50 LeMay Plaza South, Bldg 804, Maxwell AFB, AL, 36112-6334

R -- SUPPORT SERVICES FOR WARGAMING AND DOCTRINE EDUCATION (SSWADE) SOL F01600-00-R0007 POC Sandra Turner, Contract Specialist, Phone (334) 953-6513, Fax (334) 953-3543, Email sandra.turner@maxwell.af.mil -- Shirley Duncombe, Contract Specialist, Phone 334-953-3540, Fax 334-953-3543, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=M&;ProjID=F01600-00-R00 07&LocID=512. E-MAIL: Sandra Turner, sandra.turner@maxwell.af.mil. The following information, which is contained in Modification 01 on EPS, is being reposted to now reflect a posting in the Commerce Business Daily: TO MEET OMB A-76 FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR) REQUIREMENTS THIS IS THE THIRD SYNOPSIS: Provide all personnel, equipment, tools and materials, supervision, and other items and services necessary to perform Support Services for Wargaming and Doctrine Education (SSWADE) at Maxwell AFB, ALABAMA. SSWADE will consist of, but not limited to, the following areas: a) Public Affairs: educating leadership on how to communicate effectively with the general public through mass communications using public affairs techniques during crisis and non-crisis; b) Wargaming: Planning, designing, executing and evaluating wargames for domestic and international customers; maintaining competency in a broad spectrum of DoD models extending from specialized functional tools to campaign level models; conducting research and analysis in support of wargame design and execution; developing and maintaining operational databases; designing, developing, testing, and maintaining advanced software wargame models using state-of-the-art software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools; setting up and configuring computer and other technical support for a dynamic wargame environment; providing a wide spectrum of information technology services, such as computer maintenance, systems lifecycle management, systems administration, network engineering and operations, security management; providing facility security management. Support requirements cover the complete range of wargame activities, from game design through post execution reporting; c) Intelligence _ developing and maintaining curriculum, conducting platform instruction, providing subject matter expertise for all intelligence education support for AU; including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems, the five doctrinal intelligence functions, collections management, the intelligence cycle, and supporting case studies. Also, developing and helping execute scenarios, threat assessments, and databases in support of wargaming. Conducting research on opposing force (OPFOR) doctrine, strategy, weapons systems, and threat order of battle for databases. Serving as OPFOR or intelligence controller during wargame execution; d) Airpower Research _ Designing, implementing, and maintaining databases of AU student research; receiving abstract submissions, editing content, and posting to Web database; collecting information and historical data from various institutional archives and libraries; analyzing collected data; writing scholarly reports on specific aerospace power topics, both historical and current; and assisting resident analysts in research, writing, and editing work as required and e) Curriculum Development and Instruction -- platform instruction, seminar instruction and facilitation, curriculum and courseware development, distance learning materials development, production and implementation; development, administration, and grading of student evaluations concerning doctrine education; and student quota management concerning, the deliberate, crisis-action, campaign phases of war planning, and information warfare applications. This requirement will include a base year and four one-year option periods. Competitive negotiated Source Selection procedures are contemplated in this acquisition with the following evaluation factors for award, in no special order of importance: Mission Capability, Price or Cost, Past Performance and Proposal Risk. This will be a fixed-price/cost reimbursement type contract. A draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is tentatively scheduled for release no later than 25 October 1999. This is a 100% set-aside for small business concerns. The Standard Industrial Code (SIC) will be 7373. To qualify for a small business concern, annual average gross revenues of the concern taken for the last three complete fiscal years cannot exceed $18 million. All requests from interested parties should reference RFP No. F01600-00-R0007 and contain the following information: a) name, address, telephone and fax number, point of contact and an E-mail address; b) business size (whether you are a large or small business concern based on the size standard mentioned above); and c) if a small business concern, please specify type i.e., Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) 8a or small business, small disadvantage business, 8(a) or woman-owned small business. Telephone requests for the request for proposal (RFP) will not be accepted. Only written responses will be considered. Faxed requests are allowed. Our fax number is (334) 953-3543. Posted 10/21/99 (D-SN393922). (0294)

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