SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- Small Form Factor (SFF) Transponder
- Notice Date
- 5/18/2012
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441, 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, Maryland, 20670, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- SFF18MAY2012
- Archive Date
- 6/22/2012
- Point of Contact
- Mary M Dodds, Phone: (301) 757-7083
- E-Mail Address
-
mary.dodds@navy.mil
(mary.dodds@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) intends to conduct a full and open competition in accordance with FAR 6.102(c) for a Small Form Factor (SFF) Transponder that will provide identification, position, and surveillance reporting in response to challenges from airborne, ground based, and surface interrogators. NAVAIR does not intend to use the provisions of FAR Part 12 for this acquisition. The SFF Transponder must meet the existing AIMS 03-1000A with Changes 1, 2, and 3 (ATCRBS/IFF/Mark XIIA Electronic Identification System and Military Implementation of Mode S) baseline requirements. The SFF Transponder physical dimensions must be less than or equal to 240 cubic inches in size, less than 7 pounds in weight, and nominally consume less than 30 watts of power. The SFF Transponder must provide MIL-STD-1553 and RS-485 Interfaces and must provide Discrete Gillham altitude inputs. The SFF Transponder must meet the environmental requirements of Aeronautical Design Standard ADS-71-SP, the electromagnetic interference and power requirements of ADS-37 and MIL-STD-704A-F, and the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out Performance requirements of DO-260B. The SFF must be DO-17B, level C software and DO-254, level C firmware compliant. The SFF contract, awarded as a result of this full and open competition, will contain fixed price incentive fee line items for the nonrecurring development of the SFF, support of Government testing of the SFF, and the attendant technical data. The contract will also contain firm fixed price option line items for up to ten early production units for first article/pre-full rate production testing and a production quantity of up to 500 units. Initial production unit delivery must meet a 1 October 2014 delivery deadline with follow-on deliveries through 2017 of up to 14 units per month. NAVAIR anticipates making award of the SFF contract no sooner than 30 June 2013. The request for proposal (RFP) to be issued for the SFF full and open competition will contain the following pass/fail requirements: offeror must be capable of using an NSA certified US Crypto appliqué; offeror must have a valid/current U.S. COMSEC account; and Offeror must be capable of obtaining a Stage 3 Frequency Authorization no later than 30 June 2013. Offerors whose proposals fail to demonstrate compliance with any of these pass/fail requirements will be ineligible for award of the SFF contract. RFP documents (except for the SFF Specification) will be posted to the publicly assessable NAVAIR Homepage. The SFF Specification is marked with Distribution Statement D; as a result the SFF Specification is only releasable to current and approved Department of Defense (DoD) contractors located in the United States (U.S.) who possess a current and valid U.S. facility clearance with technologies/data safeguarding capabilities. As a result of this constraint, foreign contractors may NOT participate in the SFF effort as a prime contractor. Foreign firms who wish to participate in the SFF acquisition must do so as a subcontractor to a U.S. contractor who meets the facility clearance and safeguarding capability requirements noted above. Any such subcontracting arrangement between a U.S. contractor and a foreign firm (to include employment of foreign nationals by U.S. firms) shall be in accordance with current U.S. export laws, security requirements, and National Disclosure Policy, and shall require the prior approval of the Procuring Contracting Officer and the NAVAIR Foreign Disclosure Officer. For the attention of all interested parties, please be informed that pre-decisional preliminary acquisition planning for this effort was discussed with attending interested parties during a recent Army Aviation IFF Update Briefing. During that event, prospective RFP release dates and site visit plans were addressed that were incorrect. NAVAIR is the procurement authority for this acquisition and all parties are hereby advised that NAVAIR has not yet established an acquisition schedule or determined if site visits will be necessary. All relevant releasable information regarding this acquisition will be released by the NAVAIR Contracting Officer. Firms interested in competing for the SFF effort should contact Ms. Mary Dodds at Mary.Dodds@navy.mil [phone number (301) 757-7083] to register for future SFF correspondence. Please provide point of contact information for your firm to include name, phone number, and e-mail address. Please also provide your Cage code.
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