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70 -- TERMINAL AREA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUTOMATION SYSTEM DUE 030395 POC Eugene Johnson, Contracting Officer at (202) 233-3088 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has limited the competition for the STANDARD TERMINAL AUTOMATION REPLACEMENT SYSTEM (STARS) to vendors who have developed and fielded operational terminal automated air traffic control systems somewhere in the world. Within this limited competition, vendors will be prequalified through qualification criteria published in this announcement. The intent of the prequalification process is to assure FAA that qualifying vendors are truly capable of successfully performing the STARS acquisition. However, the agency intent is also to establish qualification criteria which are NOT UNDULY RESTRICTIVE . The planned date for award of the STARS contract is July 1996. As the STARS acquisition is predicated on utilizing COTS/NDI to the maximum extent possible, FAA has identified several vendors which have met the overall limitation of having developed and fielded operational systems. Once the prequalification criteria have been finalized, vendors will be required to certify in writing that they meet the stated criteria. As a means of assuring fairness to potential STARS offerors that meet the prequalification criteria, any offeror found not to have met prequalification criteria will be disqualified from continuing in the STARS competition. What follows are FAA's proposed PREQUALIFICATION CRITERIA published for industry comment: 1.0 Operational System: Eligible vendors shall have deployed an air traffic control (ATC) system which is operational and being used to separate aircraft somewhere in the world, prior to the due date for response to this CBD notice. a) The qualifying ATC system shall perform ATC functions that allow control of arrival, departure, and overflight aircraft simultaneously. b) The qualifying system shall process radar inputs; calculate and update tracking data automatically from radar inputs; and display the target track location graphically on a controller's display. c) The qualifying system shall perform transfer of flight data to another external ATC facility. d) The qualifying system shall have associated system documentation to include training, maintenance, and operator manuals. Deliverables: To substantiate the ability to meet criteria 1.0 above, the vendor shall supply to the STARS Contracting Officer the following items: Customer references for the qualified ATC system(s) which includes a customer point of contact, customer address, customer telephone number, and the associated contract name and number. The vendor shall provide a list of the qualifying system(s) deliverable documentation as well as a copy of the operator and maintenance manuals for that system(s). NOTE: The Government reserves the right to contact the user/procurer of the qualifying system to verify compliance with the minimum qualification criteria. The Government also reserves the right to request further system documentation from the vendor. 1.1 Controller Training using Aircraft Simulation: The ATC system meeting criteria 1.0 above shall currently provide the capability to perform controller training using aircraft simulation integrated with the operational ATC system that is controlling live air traffic. Deliverables: To substantiate the ability to meet criteria 1.1 above, the vendor shall supply to the STARS Contracting Officer the following items: Commercially available literature describing the ATC training and simulation capabilities of the qualifying system. 1.2 Monitor and Control: The ATC system meeting criteria 1.0 above shall currently provide a Monitor and Control position possessing the single focal point of total system operations. Deliverables: To substantiate the ability to meet criteria 1.2 above, the vendor shall supply to the STARS Contracting Officer the following items: System architecture diagram, of the system meeting criteria 1.0 above, showing a single point Monitor and Control position. A copy of the System Operations Manual for the operations of the Monitor and Control position. 2.0 Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) Experience:The contractor for the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) shall be capable of performing software engineering activities such as requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, test, distribution, installation, enhancement, correction, upgrade, or maintenance of software. The STARS contractor shall be both knowledgeable and capable in software engineering skills and practices to perform these activities.The FAA intends to evaluate the software engineering capabilities of offerors as part of its source selection process for STARS, and plans to use the results in its determination of award. To ensure that offerors are cognizant of practices for evaluating software capabilities, offerors shall satisfy the following requirements to participate in source selection activities for STARS. These requirements are applicable to each corporation, or to each division of a corporation (if such divisions exist), that intends to perform software engineering activities for STARS. An independent SCE shall have been performed prior to FAA' conduct of a software capability evaluation related to the STARS acquisition. The SCE shall be in accordance with the conditions outlined in sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 below. 2.1 The on-site portion of the SCE was/shall be conducted after January 1, 1994, but no later than 59 calendar days after the issuance of the final version of the STARS Request for Proposal. 2.2 The SCE was/shall be performed using The Capability Maturity Model for Software, Version 1.1 as described in CMU/SEI-93-TR-24 and Key Practices of the Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1 as described in CMU/SEI-93-TR-25. Both documents were issued by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University in February 1993. 2.3 The SCE was/shall be performed by an evaluation team that is trained in SCEs by the Software Engineering Institute, or is trained by an SEI-authorized source of SCE training. 2.4 The SCE was/shall be performed on programs and/or projects at the corporate or division cost center that will perform or will be responsible for STARS software engineering activities. Deliverables: To substantiate the ability to meet criteria 2.0 above, the vendor shall supply to the STARS Contracting Officer the following items: A letter of certification from each corporation or division that a Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) has been/shall be conducted on programs and/or projects of the corporation or division under the conditions described in sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 above. The vendor shall provide a copy of the findings of an SCE performed under the conditions described above, or certify that an SCE shall be performed no later than 59 calendar days of issuance of the final version of the STARS RFP. Upon completion of the SCE, if a report has not been provided to the vendor, the vendor shall provide instructions as to how a copy can be obtained by the Government. Information about Software Capability Evaluations (including sources for obtaining evaluations) is available from SEI Customer Relations, 412-268-5800. 3.0 System to be Bid: In addition to meeting the requirements established for criteria 1.0 and 2.0, vendors shall submit to the Contracting Officer a letter certifying that the system which will be bid for the STARS solicitation will: A. Be a digital system. B. Be an open architecture system, in that the software can be ported to multiple hardware platforms (Sun, HP, RISC, etc), and the system contains only COTS hardware. C. Have the ability to interface with two (2) short range (ASR-9) and one (1) long range (ARSR-3) radar simultaneously for the STARS Operational Capabilities Demonstration (OCD). Systems which can not interface to the OCD equipment shall not pass the OCD. D. Have the ability to process flight data in accordance with FAA NAS protocols (NAS-MD-631, NAS-MD-640, and NAS-MD-315) for the STARS OCD. Systems which can not interface to the OCD equipment shall not pass the OCD. E. Contain adaptable Computer Human Interface (CHI) parameters (ie: data blocks) which can be modified without requiring a recompile of the source code. Systems which cannot demonstrate this ability at the OCD shall not pass the OCD. The vendor shall also submit a system description of the STARS system to be demonstrated at OCD to the Contracting Officer no later than ninety (90) days following submission of the offeror's certification letter. If the FAA finds at any time during the STARS pre-contract award process that a vendor in fact did not meet any one of the prequalification criteria, that vendor will no longer be eligible for award of the STARS contract. Additional information concerning this planned acquisition will be provided at the soonest possible date via separate announcement. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SYNOPSIS NOR IS THE FAA SEEKING OR ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS. This synopsis is for informational purposes only. Responses or comments concerning the STARS Prequalification criteria must be forwarded to Eugene Johnson (STARS Contracting Officer) no later than March 3, 1995 by fax at (202) 233-5094 or by mail to: Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Systems Development Suite 200, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Code ASU-350, Washington, DC 20004 Eugene Johnson, STARS Contracting Officer (0048)

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