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A -- ESC JOINT TEST FORCE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (ESC JTF SETA) BRIDGE POC Stephen L. Smith, Contracting Officer, 617-377-6789. The Electronic Systems Center (ESC), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), intends to award on a Sole Source basis a bridge follow-on contract to the incumbent Horizons Technology, Inc.,700 Technology Park Drive, Billerica, MA 01821 to continue minimum base wide requirement SETA services until the competitive award of the Research and Development Advisory and Assistance Services (RDAAS) contract(s) tentatively scheduled for December 1997. Currently, HTI provides this highly specialized SETA assistance to ESC programs for the conduct of Test and Evaluation (T&E). All requirements for JTF SETA services arising after the period of performance for the current contract will be included under the RDAAS contract. An additional $3.0M and 56,000 labor hours are to be added to the contract ceiling of effort to continue existing contractor work under current delivery orders from the time of the current ordering period end date (97MAY16) until the end date of the period of performance of the contract (98MAR04). The additional level of effort proposed to be acquired for the contractor is for only the minimum essential support for continuation of on-going delivery orders. The authority for this plan of action is 10 U.S.C. 2304(d)(1)(B) (FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(iii), only one qualified source and no other type of supply or service will satisfy agency requirements. Considering the immediate need for services and the abbreviated contract period, award of this interim T&E service requirement to a source other than HTI would result in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government that is not expected to be recovered through competition, and unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements. In order for any contractor other than HTI to be considered for this effort, they must display evidence or information that they can successfully meet the following requirements: Provide technical research, advanced development, and test personnel to promote the advanced development of C41 systems, possess a thorough knowledge of test and evaluation processes, assist the Government in demonstrating selected developmental technologies and capabilities to meet user requirements and establish new installation techniques/procedures, accomplish prototyping for accomplishing software performance evaluations, perform technical studies, investigations, and/or analyses to develop future systems concepts, track technology developments, formulate applications and define technology/systems shortfalls, world-wide deployments, required skills vary but are most critical is test, software, and computer scientist positions and prior test experience with radar processes, security systems, radar data analysis, radar data reduction and development of analysis computer software programs required. In addition to providing the technical requirements, a contractor must demonstrate that all program and technical requirements would be available by 97MAY16, to ensure non-interruption of critical service. All qualification packages received will be considered by the Government. Submit your responses to Mr. Stephen L. Smith at ESC/AXK, 5 Eglin Street. Hanscom, AFB, MA 01731-2116 within fifteen days of publication of this notice. No telephone solicitations will be accepted or considered. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0093)

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