Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 220000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

R -- COMBAT ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION SOL N68936-98-R-0120 DUE 061898 POC Ruth A. Post, Contract Specialist, (760) 939-4233, or Maureena Mueller, Contracting Officer, (760) 939-8176 The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA is issuing a solicitation for a three year contract with two one year options for Combat Environment Simulation Services. It is anticipated that the base period of performance will commence in October 1998. The contractor shall design, develop, fabricate and deploy equipment or systems designed to provide a dense, realistic, electromagnetic (encompassing radio frequency, infrared, electro-optic, and laser energy) environment to be used by the Tri-Services community for weapons systems deployment, training, and test & evaluation. These efforts will include fixed and moving ground, ground, sea, and air targets and emitters, integrated hardware/software systems and environments and hostile equipment modeled entirely in software. The contractor shall install and integrate the systems and equipment onto test and evaluation and training ranges. The intent of this acquisition is to support these various related requirements by multiple award, Cost Plus Award Fee, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Task order Type Contracts. The Government anticipates awarding up to three contracts. All copies of the draft and final solicitation will be furnished electronically through the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, 2.0 Contracts Competency Home Page. The address is as follows: "http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~contract/homepubl.htm". No hard copies of the solicitation will be furnished. A draft Statement of Work will be available on or about 07 April 1998. A draft solicitation will be available on or about 14 April 1998. A pre-solicitation conference is planned for 0900-1130 on 21 April 1998 at the China Lake Station Theater. The Government is soliciting comments, suggestions, and questions related to the draft solicitation and pre-solicitation conference via E-mail (rpost@ban.chinalake.navy.mil), fax (760-939-8164) or meetings following the pre-solicitation conference. The Government will meet with each contractor for up to 25 minutes, beginning at 1300 on 21 April 1998. Contact the contract specialist via E-mail or fax, to schedule the meeting. The meetings will be scheduled in the same order as the requests are received. Feedback will be considered by the Government for incorporation into the final solicitation. The final solicitation will be available on the home page, on or about 18 May 1998. Responses to the solicitation are due by noon on 18 June, 1998. Oral presentations will be scheduled by lottery. Offerors will be notified on or about 19 June with the time for the oral presentation. Oral presentations will be presented on or about 29 June through 2 July. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. See Note(s): 26. (0092)

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