SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Airborne Laser (ABL) Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS)
- Notice Date
- 4/22/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Kirtland AFB, NM ASC/TMK, 3300 Target Road Bldg 760, Kirtland, NM, 87117
- ZIP Code
- 87117
- Solicitation Number
- FA8632-04-R-2453
- Response Due
- 5/11/2004
- Archive Date
- 5/26/2004
- Point of Contact
- Martin Baca, Contract Specialist, Phone (505)846-0775, Fax (505)846-2931,
- E-Mail Address
-
Martin.Baca@kirtland.af.mil
- Description
- The ABL Element of the Missile Defense Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base NM is contemplating an award of a contract to provide advisory and assistance services (A&AS). This announcement is for information and planning purposes only. This procurement is a follow-on action to the current ABL A&AS contract that is scheduled to expire 31 March, 2005. The ABL is a high-energy laser system integrated on a Boeing 747 aircraft that is being tested for destroying theater ballistic missiles in their boost phase. At present, the ABL office requires approximately 107 man-year (per year) equivalent heads of A&AS support. The A&AS contractor(s) shall support, provide expertise and oversight/insight and participate in ABL integrated product teams. The current integrated product teams include: Aircraft; Airborne Sensors; Battle Management Command, Control and Communication Computers and Integration and Intelligence (BMC4I); Beam Control/Fire Control (BC/FC); Ground Support and Laser IPTs. The A&AS contractor(s) shall support the ABL office through engineering analyses, segment modeling and simulation, and review and evaluation of segment concepts, architectures and designs. The A&AS contractor(s) shall also provide specific segment modeling and simulation support to include wave optics and scaling laws, BMC4I predictive avoidance analysis, and Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) design analysis. The A&AS contractor(s) shall provide specific segment design engineering analysis for atmospheric characterization (turbulence statistics and cloud analysis), laser beam quality, adaptive optics, large optic designs, vibration, aero-optics, the pressure recovery subsystem, and acquisition, tracking and pointing. The A&AS contractor(s) shall provide specific system modeling and simulation. The A&AS contractor(s) must have extensive, in-depth and current experience with High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon system technologies, systems and applications, as well as hands-on experience in analysis/experiments and testing with the HEL technologies. Expertise is required in laser physics, physics, gas dynamics, optical engineering, electro-optics and structural engineering (thermal/mechanical). Extensive experience is required in COIL for the ABL weapon and solid state lasers for the ABL illuminator, including integrated laser/optical resonator analysis, pressure recovery system, laser chemistry and optical non-linear phenomena. Experience is also required in high energy laser weapon system beam control, vibration isolation/control, integrated laser controls, laser tracking and pointing and laser beam aim point maintenance, as well as atmospheric turbulence analysis, wave optics codes, high energy laser propagation, atmospheric compensation and adaptive optics. ABL also requires experience in missile tracking/signatures, high energy laser effects, passive/active missile tracking algorithms and damage assessment for HEL effects, as well as systems-level modeling and simulation to include airborne HEL weapon systems and subsystems, aircraft platforms, atmospheric propagation, ballistic missile threats and mission and campaign-level engagement performance analysis. Finally, the contractor shall provide support in the areas of security, computer network information technology, technical writing, and graphic support, as well as specialized support in contracting, personnel, and program control. A copy of the draft A&AS Statement of Work (SOW), upon which the forecasted work and this sources sought synopsis is based, can be found with this announcement and at http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/barbb/barbb.htm. Personnel on the A&AS contract shall have a minimum of a Secret clearance, Completed National Agency Check (NAC), or have submitted for a NAC in order to use government information systems and/or to access certain ABL unclassified information. Access to classified information requires either a final or interim clearance at the appropriate level. Approximately 80% of the personnel that would support this A&AS contract will require a Top Secret (single scope background investigation [SSBI]) clearance that is current within the last five years. Please contact the Contracting Officer if additional information is necessary (please provide your CAGE code with this request). Potential offerors shall submit statements of capabilities (SOCs) to this office. Each SOC shall specifically address each SOW paragraph. Additionally, the SOC package shall contain pertinent and specific information addressing the following areas: 1) Experience: an outline of previous efforts, specific work previously performed and any in-house effort, relevant to the specific task areas of this effort; including a proposed organizational conflict of interest mitigation plan, if required; and 2) Personnel: the names, professional qualifications and specific experience of personnel who will be assigned to work in areas of interest. The SOCs must be received by the SPO POC listed below on 11 May 2004. There is a 45 page SOC page limitation, and submissions must be unclassified. All replies to this synopsis must reference this sources sought synopsis and number FA8632-04-R-2453. The A&AS contractor(s) must have, or be able to obtain, access to proprietary computer models owned by the Schafer Corporation. Submit all responses to ASC/TMK, Attn: Martin Baca, 1350 Wyoming Blvd SE, Bldg 20200, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5536. The contract is anticipated to be an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ), five-year task order contract. Anticipate contract award in December, 2004. This acquisition will be procured using full and open competition procedures. Firms responding should indicate if they are a large, small, an 8(a), a HUBZone small business, a veteran owned small business, a service disabled veteran small business, a historically black college or university, women-owned business, or a minority institution. For this proposed acquisition and using the small business size standard for NAICS code 541710, the size standard of 500 employees applies. Foreign firms are advised to contact the Contracting Officer before submitting a proposal to determine whether there are any restrictions on receiving award. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only. It does not constitute an RFP and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear the concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should communicate first with the Contracting Officer to request information, pose a question, and voice concerns before contacting the Ombudsman. In those instances where offerors cannot obtain resolution from the Contracting Officer, they are invited to contact Mr. Mike O?Neill at 703.695.9122. For contracting issues, please contact Mr. Martin Baca at 505.846.0775. In the event you cannot reach Mr. Baca, please call the contracting officer, Ms. Tammie Johnson at 505.846.4060. The specifics on an industry day, if desired, will be published in FedBizOpps and is planned after release of the Draft RFP. See Numbered Notes: 25 and 26.
- Place of Performance
- Address: ASC/TMK, 1350 Wyoming Blvd SE, Bldg 20200, Kirtland AFB, NM
- Zip Code: 87117
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 87117
- Record
- SN00570970-W 20040424/040422211915 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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