SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Flight Safety Analysis Contract
- Notice Date
- 1/18/2002
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, 30CONS, Bldg 7015, STE 2D 806 13th Street, Vandenberg AFB, CA, 93437-5226
- ZIP Code
- 93437-5226
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-F04684-97-C-0001
- Response Due
- 2/4/2002
- Archive Date
- 2/19/2002
- Point of Contact
- Evelyn Swain, Contracting Officer, Phone (805)606-3981, Fax (805)606-5193,
- E-Mail Address
-
Evelyn.Swain@vandenberg.af.mil
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT: The 30th Space Wing intends to extend the Flight Safety Analysis Contract (FSAC) #F04684-97-C-0001 with ACTA Inc, for a period of six months (1 Apr 02 through 30 Sep 02). By extending the FSAC, launch critical services, ongoing analyses, and external agency support will be uninterrupted while the new Wing Safety, Performance and Evaluation Contract (WSPEC) is being completed. The current FSAC provides highly technical flight safety analysis support to the US Air Force, 30th Space Wing Safety Office, Flight Analysis (Flight Safety), 30SW/SEY at the Western Range (WR), Vandenberg AFB, CA. In addition to 30th Space Wing, customers include AF, HQ AFSPC, 14th AF, NASA, FAA, other range support contractors and commercial launch agencies. The WR encompasses a geographical area extending from the US West Coast to the Indian Ocean. Flight safety analysis is performed spanning areas of this arena from California and the offshore flight test areas to South America, Antarctica and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the mid Pacific. Flight safety analysis requires the application of complex scientific methods and a thorough technical understanding of range safety policies. The objective of this extension is to maintain uninterrupted, responsive, and technically excellent flight safety providing public protection and support for ballistic, space, aeronautical, directed energy (lasers) and related programs. Long term effort with follow-on tasking over many years has been required to devise, demonstrate and refine the sophisticated flight safety assessment tools used to address risks from debris, overpressure and toxic gasses associated with current and evolving vehicle flight and launch operations. Tasking includes multiyear efforts to coordinate flight safety analysis processes and tools across federal agencies and with commercial launch vehicle operators and to revise governing documents and standards. The lead times, launch preparation, knowledge base, skill sets and budget cycles for these vehicles and systems span several years. The government considers one year the minimum time needed to conduct thorough analytic studies and use time, personnel and funding efficiently, considering database revisions, the knowledge base, conferencing, documentation and approval cycles. A six months extension to the current contract will achieve this optimum one-year time span. Phase-in would require a minimum of two months due to the launch schedule, criticality of the public protection and timing of product delivery. All hiring and training of personnel, learning of mission critical systems, development of procedures and obtaining required security clearances must be accomplished without interruption of FSAC services or impact to launch schedules. Interested parties may provide necessary information, including written capabilities statement, and past performance references to Evelyn Swain within 15 days of this publication.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Vandenberg AFB CA 93437
- Country: United States
- Country: United States
- Record
- SN20020123/00016577-020122123647 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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