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B -- F/A-18 COMMON AND PECULIAR POST-PRODUCTION SUPPORT FOR ALL FOREIGN MILITARY SALES WHICH INCLUDES BUT NOT LIMITED TO CANADA, AUSTRALIA, KUWAIT, SPAIN, FINLAND, SWITZERLAND, MALAYSIA AND THAILAND FOR THE F/A-18 AIRCRAFT. SOL N00019-00-R-0148 DUE 052500 POC Contact, Dawn Churchill, Phone (301)-757-7087 E-MAIL: churhilld@navair.navy.mil, churchilld@navair.navy.mil. The Naval Air Systems intends to award sole source contract to McDonnell Douglas Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company for common and peculiar post production support for all Foreign Military Sales which includes but not limited to Canada, Australia, Kuwait, Spain, Finland, Switzerland, Malaysia and Thailand. The following services will be provided: analysis, plans, data research and studies, configuration maintenance by use of the Technical Requirements Identification Matrix (TRIM) file, Retrofit Configuration Documents (RCD), Configuration Status Accounting (CSA) systems and Test Requirement Documents (TRD), configuration management by development of common and unique ECP's, production of retrofit kits with installation services and monthly Technical Directive Kit Shipment Reports (TDKSRs), delivered aircraft support (providing support identifying safety concerns) to include Engineering Investigations (EI), supplier oversight and coordination, publication changes and updates. Assole designer, developer, manufacturer and supplier of the F/A-18 weapon system, MDC is the only firm which possesses the technical knowledge of the aircraft's design and operation in order to provide the integration and testing of the aircraft. Additionally, only MDC has the F/A-18 peculiar engineering data, expertise, facilities and test equipment to perform the effort. See note No. 22 -- NAVAIR Synopsis No.20041-00. Posted 04/27/00 (W-SN449270). (0118)

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