SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Information Technology Services
- Notice Date
- 7/9/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Direct Reporting Units, 11th CONS, 110 Luke Avenue (Bldg 5681) Suite 200, Bolling AFB, DC, 20332-0305
- ZIP Code
- 20332-0305
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F91043xxxx0100
- Response Due
- 8/8/2003
- Archive Date
- 8/23/2003
- Point of Contact
- Deborah Grant, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-767-7934, Fax 202-767-7814, - Ramona Hanson, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-767-8107, Fax 202-767-7812,
- E-Mail Address
-
Deborah.Grant@Bolling.af.mil, lynne.hanson@bolling.af.mil
- Description
- The 11th CONS/LGCN, Bolling AFB, DC, is seeking qualified sources capable of providing the following services for the purpose of developing a source list for a potential commercial procurement entitled ?Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTs) Electronics Cost Model?, in support of The Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (AFCAA). The state-of-the-art COTs electronics cost model will provide the government the price of procuring various quantities of a variety of commercial electronic equipment based on technical performance characteristics, using validated price quotations (in addition to, if not to the exclusion of catalog pricing) from COTs equipment manufacturers. The government will evaluate the capability statements based on their ability to meet the specification for providing an existing state of the art COTs electronics cost model. A state-of-the-art COTs electronics cost model will have the following features: 1. Cost Estimating Relationships (CER) shall cover in some form, a. Data and Signal Processor boards, b. Memory boards, c. Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog boards, d. Receiver boards, e. Waveform/Signal Generator boards, f. Digital parallel input/output boards, g. Storage Devices, h. Power supplies, i. Backplanes, j. Enclosures, k. Box Integration, l. Server?s, m. Workstations, n. Routers, Hubs, and Switches. 2. For each cost estimating relationship, the CER will include, where appropriate, measures of performance using metrics accepted in the electronic industry, physical dimensions and quantities, memory size, environmental constraints, and maturity of the product line. Performance metrics depend on the object the CER estimates, but examples might include, but are not restricted or limited to, industry benchmark specifications, processor speed, bandwidth, stability, and samples per second. Physical dimensions also depend on the object, but may include, but are not limited to area, volume, and number of processor chips. The model shall identify as independent variables environmental constraints using military standards and specifications that discussed in the model documentation. Examples of environmental factors may include, but are not restricted or limited to, shock, vibration, temperature range, and nuclear environments. Finally, the data set should include, where appropriate, the original introduction date for the object data point. Because of the large number of degrees of freedom associated with COTs electronics data sets, a state-of-the-art electronics cost model may include for some CERs well over a dozen independent and dummy variables (consistent with econometric or advanced tistical linear modeling) to estimate the dependent variable (i.e. price) for a single CER. 3. Each data point shall be available to the government for review, analysis, and replication of each CER. 4. The government shall be able to view and directly use each and all of the cost estimating relationships associated with the model. 5. The contractor?s existing cost model will have documentation that allows, with the contractor?s data set, the government analyst to replicate the CER from the source data. 6. Given the size of the COTs electronics industry, the government expects contractor?s existing model to have CERs for commonly available boards using a minimum of several hundred boards from an existing database of cost and technical data. The database in its entirety, including both cost and technical data, must be available to the government for further analysis and replication of CERs. 7. The model will have an existing electronic interface that will allow the user to provide inputs for the dependent variables and receive a cost forecast based on the cost estimating relationship along with, at minimum, an estimate mean, median, lower bound, and upper bound. 8. The contractor will have the technical expertise necessary to identify, explain, and document performance and physical cost drivers. The documentation of the contractor?s existing model will have a description of the COTs component the CER estimates and the cost drivers associated with the CER. The government is seeking to further develop existing models instead of developing new ones; the government expects the contractor to currently have full documentation for the existing model, including a technical manual that explains documents for each CER and how the contractor developed it. The description shall include a detailed description of the board estimated by the CER, a detailed description of each of the dependent variables, the CER itself along with the summary statistics. The description shall further include how the contractor collected and normalized the data used in developing the CER. All data sets used in development of the CER will be available in their entirety for the government to review, analyze, and verify the CERs. Request that contractors interested and capable of performing these functions submit evidence of such and include the following information; name and address of company, company point of contact, telephone number, fax number and email addresses, and identify if business is large, small, disadvantage, HUBZONE, woman-owned or 8(a). Capability statements must be clear and concise and submitted to the points of contact listed no later than 08 Aug 2003. Please limit capability statements to ten pages and include, at a minimum: 1) Contract references in the past five years relevant to the requirement ? including contract number, agency supported, whether or not you were a prime or subcontractor, period of performance, final contract value and brief description of the effort. 2) Company information: annual sales history, locations services performed, DUNS number, CAGE Code and Tax ID Number. For purposes of the Request for Information (RFI), the NAICS code is 541519, size standard, $21,000,000.00. Contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) to do business with the Government. Registration in CCR can be done at www.ccr.gov. Preferred method of submissions is by electronic mail, however, facsimile submissions are acceptable (202-767-7814).
- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor's Facility
- Record
- SN00367460-W 20030711/030709213630 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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