SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- VOR Minimum Operating Network (VOR MON) Service Provision
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, aaq-340 WA - FAA Headquarters (Washington, DC)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 19007
- Response Due
- 1/28/2015
- Archive Date
- 1/28/2015
- Point of Contact
- Larry Mendelson, larry.mendelson@faa.gov, Phone: 202-267-9902
- E-Mail Address
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Click here to email Larry Mendelson
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- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Purpose The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Office of Navigation Services (AJM-32) is assessing the feasibility and cost effectiveness of outsourcing the service provision of the Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni-Directional Range (VOR) Minimum Operating Network (VOR MON). The FAA currently provides the VOR service organically. Background: For over 50 years, aircraft have flown routes defined by VOR to navigate throughout the NAS. In the early 1990s, the FAA embarked on a transition to satellite navigation enabled by the Global Navigation Satellie Systems (GNSS) to enable aircraft to fly efficiently between any two points, using Area Navigation (RNAV), instead of the flying less inefficient paths between two VOR Navigation Aids (NAVAIDs) under conventional navigation. The operational improvements planned for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) depend on more widespread use of RNAV. Therefore, as NextGen progresses, the need for VORs will decline and the enabling navigation infrastructure must be right-sized to reduce and avoid unnecessary costs. However, GNSS signals are highly susceptible to radio frequency interference so a portion of the current inventory of VORs will be retained to provide a conventional navigation backup to GNSS. Consequently, the FAA is preparing a plan to reduce the current inventory of 967 VORs by approximately 443 and retain approximately 524 facilities as the VOR MON. VOR MON Service Provision includes: 1)VOR MON Implementation support to discontinue existing VOR NAVAIDs from the current level of 967 by approximately 50% for the VOR MON to include: a)Relocation of collocated services b)Expand the service volume from 1000 AGL at 40 miles to 5000 AGL at 77 miles. c)Support for any other action required for the discontinuace ( documentation, charting and procedures update.) 2)Operation and maintenance of all VOR Navaid facilities across the US NAS to include: a)# VOR H Class b)# VOR L Class c)# VOR T Class 3)Provision of service to ensure each facility type, identified in 1, meets all system certification requirements, standards, and tolerances with an availability of 99.7%. 4)Technical refresh and/or replacement of the NAVAID facilities in 2 to meet the service provision requirement in 3 throughout the lifecycle. 5)Logitics support, supply support, and training to meet the provision of service requirement identified in 3. The principle North American Industry Classification Systems Code is 541330. The purpose of this market survey is to encourage statements of interest and capabilities from business concerns capable of providing the required services. Please submit your capability statement that should include: A statement of your firm ™s experience within the past 10 years in providing turn key solution for services. A description of the proposed approach to provide the VOR MON services. A rough order of magnitude cost estimate Please limit your response to no more than 25 pages, exclusive of resumes. Please provide your response to this market survey not later than January 28, 2015, 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time to Larry Mendelson at Larry.Mendelson@faa.gov. Phone calls will not be accepted. Please include MARKET SURVEY RESPONSE: VOR MON Service Provision, in the subject line of your email. Information provided will not be released; however, please mark PROPRIETARY on all documents submitted as necessary. This market survey is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a request for proposal nor an obligation on the part of the FAA to acquire any products/services. The FAA is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals. A procurement package is not available. No entitlement to payment will arise as a result of submission of responses to this market survey. The FAA is not liable for cost (direct or indirect) associated with FAA ™s use of such information, the preparation, submittal of inquiries nor responses to this market survey. The FAA will not reimburse any vendor for costs incurred in responding to this survey. Therefore, any costs associated with this market survey submission is solely at the interested vendor ™s expense. If you're viewing this announcement from a source other than Federal Aviation Administration Contract Opportunities (FAACO), visit https://faaco.faa.gov/index.cfm/announcement/view/19007 to view the original announcement.
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