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69 -- DEVICE 9D5 MULTI-PLACE UNDERWATER EGRESS TRAINER BLOCK UPGRADE OF SEVEN TRAINING DEVICES SOL N61339-97-R-0034 DUE 080797 POC Mary Lu Valentine, 407-380-4155/Contracting Officer, Ronald Dillon, 407-380-8385 THIS IS AN amendment 0002 to the COMBINED SYNOPSIS/ SOLICITATION dated 08 July 1997 FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FORMAT IN SUBPART 12.6 OF THE FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION (FAR), SOLICITATION NUMBER N61339-97-R-0034 ISSUED AS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP). Answers to questions asked a result of the synopsis/solicitation are as follows: Question 1a: The solicitation states that the "Offerors will be evaluated on technical approach, price, past performance, reliability/maintainability, and warranty." Is there an order of importance or evaluation score applied to each of these categories? Answer: YES. Question 1b: What is the relative importance of past performance and technical vs cost? Answer: Technical approach, past performance, and price are equally important. Warranty and reliability/maintainability are of equal importance but are less important than the technical, price and past performance factors. Question 2a: Will the "support contractor" for the ILS referred to under #4 be a 3rd party? Answer: YES. Question 2b: If so, is this Contractor responsible for development/revision of support documentation other than fabrication and assembly drawings, wiring diagrams and installation instruction? The government's support contractor is not responsible for developing any data for the modification. In our original draft we stated: "Any hardware changes or deviation as will as any special maintenance or safety related issues shall be identified, documented, and provided to the NAWCTSD ILSM, and, Modifications of existing documentation to be done via redline changes for government correction". Government correction will be affected by our support contractor. Question 3a: What is the driving force behind designing, fabrication, installing and testing all kits no later than 6 months after contract award? Answer: Fleet Requirement. There is no requirement for design. Question 3b: Is it possible to lengthen the schedule if it would be more cost effective? Answer: No. Question 4: According to the kit configurations specificied in the CLINs, device 9D5A at NAS Pensacola does not receive the seat pedestal modification. How will the prototype seat pedestal be validated by the government? Answer: There is no such thing as a seat pedestal modification. There is a seat pedestal fabrication and a seat swivel modification. The seat pedestal fabrication will be done for Miramar and will be tested at Miramar. The seat swivel modification will be done for Pensacola as well as others. and will be tested at Pensacola. Contractor presence for subsequent tests not required. Question #5: Will contractor be responsible for all installing all of the kits or just the intial prototype kit at NAS Pensacola? Answer: Pensacola only. Contractor presence for subsequent installations is not required. The other site installs will be completed by the Government. Question #6: Is device 9D5 technical data available for review? Answer: Yes. Question 7 and 8: Are all 9D5A devices identical? Are all 9D5B devices identical? Answer to Questions 7 and 8: Yes, for the purposes of this modification, the A versions could be assumed to be identical and the B versions could be assumed to be identical. Question 9: Please specify the design objectives for the seat pedestals mentioned in Statement of Of objectives (SOO) paragragh 1d: Answer: There will be no new objectives. The seat pedestals will be of the same design as NAS Lemoore. Question 10: Paragraph 2c of the SOO states: "Seats (both sites) and support pedestals (Lemoore only) will be provided." Are the seats provided by the Government as Government-Furnished Equipment? Answer: Yes. The contractor needs only to provide the seat pedestals for Miramar. The government will install. Question 11: Are only release mechanicisms required (SOO paragraph 1f) or is the intent to include a facsimile of doors and windows? Answer: Yes, only the release mechanisms are required. No, Intent is not to add doors and windows. RESPONSES TO THIS RFP MUST BE RECEIVED BY 07 August 1997 AT 4:00 P.M. EASTERN STANDARD TIME AT THE NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER, 12350 RESEARCH PARKWAY, ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32826-3224. POC IS MARY LU VALENTINE (407) 380-4155 FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THIS SOLICITATION. ALL INQUIRIES AND CONCERNS MUST BE ADDRESSED IN WRITING. REFERENCE SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS OF 22 APRIL 1997 AND SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION DATED 08 JULY 1997 FOR FURTHER DETAILS. CONTRACTORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE CBD FROM TIME TO TIME TO OBTAIN THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION AVAILABLE, SUCH AS AMENDMENTS TO THIS SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION. SIC CODE IS 3699 (750 employees). THIS WILL BE A FIRM FIXED PRICE REQUIREMENT (FFP). QUESTIONS SHOULD BE REFERRED TO MARY LOU VALENTINE AT (407) 380-4155. THE ORIGINAL COMBINED SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION DATED 08 JULY 1997, MODIFIACATION 0001, AND THIS MODIFICATION (AND ANY FUTURE MODIFICATIONS) TO THE SYNOPSIS/SOLICITATION WILL BE POSTED ON THE NAWCTSD WORLD WIDE WEBSITE WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS: HTTP: WWW.NTSC.NAVY.MIL (0210)

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