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K -- UPGRADE AND REFURBISH OPTIONS FOR FRASCA MODEL #141 SOL F05611-00-M0121 DUE 072800 POC Dana Kurtz, Contracting Specialist, Phone (719) 333-4986, Fax (719) 333-4404, Email dana.kurtz@usafa.af.mil-- Mercer Hurst, Contract Specialist, Phone 719-333-4085, Fax 719-333-4404, Email mercer.hurst@usafa.af.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=R&ProjID=F05611-00-M0121&LocID=479. E-MAIL: Dana Kurtz, dana.kurtz@usafa.af.mil. The 10th Air Base Wing Operational Contracting Office is issuing this as a sources sought synopsis and Request for Information from potential sources for solicitation F05611-00-M0121 in order to conduct market research. Also, it notifies all interested parties the possibility exists that this requirement may be synopsized as sole source procurement in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 5313.106-1. This synopsis outlines the requirements for Upgrade and Refurbish Options for Frasca Model 141 as defined in the following of proposed work to be accomplished. All interested parties are encouraged to review these documents and provide written documentation to the contracting officer if they believe they can meet the stated requirements. All responses to this synopsis are due 28 July 2000. After review of responses, the determination shall be made to solicit this requirement as competitive or as a sole source requirement. Please email all questions or concerns to dana.Kurtz@usafa.af.mil or mercer.hurst@usafa.af.mil. No telephone requests please. Description: Upgrade and refurbish options for host computer Frasca Model 141, single engine flight training device. This upgrade replaces the existing instructor's station (terminal, plotter, and desk) with a Pentium PC, color monitor, color printer, and a new desk. It also will replace the Field Training Device's older central processing unit with Frasca's newest software. Upgrading the host is necessary to make it compatible with the newer software used with Graphic Instructor Station. This updated configuration is the same as installed in the customer's newly manufactured FTD's. Frasca's Window based Graphic Instructor Station (GISt), is the most advanced instructor station available in the commercial simulation industry. Instead of a keyboard and text based menus, GISt presents graphical images to the instructors which permits more intuitive monitoring of and allowing more time for instructing the student. With GISt, the instructor's workload is reduced; thereby is designed for advanced, recurrent flight training as well as research. Cockpit equipment includes flight, engine, and systems controls and indicators that are modeled after actual aircraft parts. The flight simulation is apparent from engine starting through taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, slow flight, stalls, descent and landing for use at the Air Force Academy with the Pilot Training Program conducted at Colorado Springs, CO. This will require the re-hosting of FTD's older unit with Pentium PC and Frasca's newest software for additional computer capacity. The contractor shall re-host the software onto the Pentium family of processors on a PC running the NT operating system. The systems should be at least Pentium II computers with 450 MHz processing speed, 128 MB memory, and 10 GB hard Posted 07/20/00 (D-SN477249). (0202)

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