SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Advanced Computer Flight Planning (ACFP) Application Support - Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS)
- Notice Date
- 12/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Mobility Command, AMC Specialized Contracting Branch (HQ AMC/A7KQ), 507 Symington Drive, Room W202, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225-5022, United States
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5022
- Solicitation Number
- RFI_ACFP_Application_Support
- Point of Contact
- Tiffany L. Rogers, Phone: 6182569962
- E-Mail Address
-
tiffany.rogers-02@scott.af.mil
(tiffany.rogers-02@scott.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ADVANCED COMPUTER FLIGHT PLANNING (ACFP) APPLICATION SUPPORT 1. Introduction The Air Mobility Command is conducting market research to determine qualified, experienced, and interested potential sources. Part of the market research is to publish on FedBizOpps a Request for Information (RFI) seeking market information on businesses capable of providing the services, as described in the attached Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS). The information requested by this RFI will be used within the Air Force to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside the agency. Firms choosing to respond to this RFI are cautioned that THIS SYNOPSIS/RFI IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. This RFI is a market research tool used to determine the adequacy of eligible business sources prior to determining the acquisition strategy and issuance of a request for proposal. The Government is not obligated to and shall not pay for any information received from any sources responding to this synopsis and will not provide any feedback or carry on discussions with non federal government activities regarding the information you provided in response to this RFI. Responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract. 2. Background The Directorate of Communications and Information, Mobility Systems Division of the Air Mobility Command (HQ AMC/A6I) has responsibility for program management of AMC Command and Control (C2) programs. HQ AMC/A6I acquires, deploys, and maintains the hardware, systems software, and applications software for AMC C2 applications. On October 1, 1995, AMC was designated as the lead command and assumed program management responsibility for the acquisition and development of the Advanced Computer Flight Planning (ACFP) system. ACFP is AMC's primary automated aircraft flight planning system, used worldwide by AMC and other USAF major commands during peacetime, crisis, contingency, and wartime operations. The system provides fuel and time optimized computer flight plans using an online system of track libraries, international navigational aids library, remote terminal request and dissemination procedures, and current weather forecasts. ACFP V4.0 consists of the following: • Sun Server v890 and v245 • T2000 hardware with Solaris UNIX as the operating systems • Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) • Dell servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as the operating system The application source code is written in C++ and C#. ACFP Client Software (Request Input Manger - RIM, and Request Segment Builder - RSB) run on Windows XP. 3. Requested Information Information requested: 1. Name, mailing address, overnight delivery address (if different from mailing address), phone number, fax number, and e-mail of designated point of contact. 2. Company information (include CAGE Code and DUNS) 3. Anticipated Teaming Arrangements (if applicable) 4. Typical Contract terms and conditions for this type of work 5. Identify Major Risks: general information to identify any major risks anticipated and/or associated with this type of effort 6. Capability and Performance Information in terms of contract references (similar to this requirement) to include the following: a. Contract number b. Contract type c. Total contract value d. Performance as a prime or subcontractor e. Brief description of the effort f. Period of performance g. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code h. Small Business Size Standard (if applicable) 7. Technical qualifications that demonstrate the ability to perform the tasks defined in the PWS 8. Optional - provide recommendation for alternate NAICS code, if the one provided is too restrictive or not restrictive enough as to business size and industry category 4. Responses Responses shall be limited to 50 pages. 5. Industry Discussions Air Force representatives may or may not choose to meet with potential offerors. Such discussions would only be intended to get further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, especially any development and certification risks. 6. Questions Questions regarding this notice shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to the Contract Specialist Tiffany Rogers, email address tiffany.rogers-02@scott.af.mil. Verbal questions will NOT be accepted. Questions will be answered by posting answers as an attachment entitled Questions and Answers to this notice; accordingly, questions shall NOT contain proprietary or classified information. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after December 22, 2010 12:00 PM CST will be answered. 7. Summary THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify sources that can provide ADVANCED COMPUTER FLIGHT PLANNING (ACFP) APPLICATION SUPPORT. The information provided in the RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. The Air Force has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, and release of this RFI should not be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement would be required or sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.
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