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B -- SAFETY WEAPON DESCRIPTORS (AKA FOOTPRINTS) SOL F44650-98-T0130 DUE 042898 POC Point of contact -- Mr. Timothy Cannella, Contract Manager, 757-764-4187, ext 144; Contracting Officer, Ms. Carla Rice, 757-764-4187, ext 144 WEB: ACC Contracting Squadron, http://public.acclog.af.mil/cons/welcome.htm. E-MAIL: ACC CONS Langley AFB,, cannellt@langley.af.mil. The ACC Contracting Squadron is soliciting quotes for the development of approximately 80 Weapon Safety Descriptors (AKA "Footprints") and an option to buy up to an estimated 55 additional footprints. Subject acquisition will be a 100% small business set-aside. The acquisition will be procured in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 -- Commercial Items and FAR 13.5 -- Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Solicitation F44650-98-T0130 is issued as a Request for Quote (RFQ) and will include a basic year and four one-year option periods. The Standard Industrialization Code (SIC) is 7371. The Footprint contractor will be responsible for developing Footprints in an approved format as defined in AFI 13-212, Weapons Ranges, and in the solicitation. Footprints generation shall be developed in a planned sequence and contractors will use the same mathematical models and methodology used in current HAZARD methodology and described in AFI 13-212. Required Footprints shall be restricted to inert, training munitions, but shall be expandable to model live munitions via standard HAZARD software routines. Footprints shall be independently verified and validated by software contractor, Spectrum Sciences and Software, Inc., to ensure they are properly integrated into HAZARD software. All data shall be collected to produce Footprints in a Microsoft Access Database. The contractor shall obtain enough weapon delivery and impact data sets for each weapon profile to compute a footprint with 99.99%containment at a 95% confidence interval (except strafe footprints that require 99.999% containment). Acceptable data sets used to calculate footprints must include the following information: aircraft type, weapon type, delivery event, weapon release altitude and airspeed, aircraft dive angle, impact point distance in meters, and impact point angles in degrees from target coordinates. The RFQ will also include an option to buy range maps (for the basic and each option year) compatible with Hazard Analysis Program Software Version 7.0.5. Maps shall contain, as a minimum, range boundaries, roads, lakes, streams, and other permanent two-dimensional geographical features, and each feature shall be displayed using standard Hazard "layer" process. Maps provided shall be easily imported by HAZARD program users using current methodology without contractor assistance and shall support all HAZARD program functions. The solicitation will be available on the INTERNET on or about 9 April 98. Interested offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation (and any amendments) from the ACC CONS Bulletin Board on the INTERNET. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the INTERNET for solicitation release and release of any amendments. The solicitation will be released as soon as practicable, whether prior or subsequent to the projected date. ACC Contracting Squadron home page INTERNET address for downloading the solicitation is http://public.acclog.af.mil/cons/welcome.htm. To be placed on the Source List, offerors should forward their complete name and address, phone and fax number, email address, and whether a small business, small disadvantaged business, or a woman owned business to e-mail address cannellt@langley.af.mil or by faxing 757-764-9297 to the attention of Mr. Timothy Cannella. (0082)

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