SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Variable Stability Aircraft Support Services
- Notice Date
- 7/19/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFFTC - AF Flight Test Center, 5 S WOLFE AVE, Edwards AFB, CA, 93524-1185
- ZIP Code
- 93524-1185
- Solicitation Number
- FA9301-04-R-0007
- Response Due
- 8/2/2004
- Archive Date
- 8/17/2004
- Point of Contact
- Steve Barry, Contract Specialist, Phone 661-277-8884, Fax 661-275-7838, - Patrick Terry, Contract Negotiator, Phone 661-275-8450, Fax 661-275-7844,
- E-Mail Address
-
steven.barry@edwards.af.mil, patrick.terry@edwards.af.mil
- Description
- Description: Edwards AFB, CA is seeking sources for Variable Stability Aircraft (VSA) support capabilities to include; variable stability training services and flight demonstrations; Test Management Projects (TMPs); and Staff Development Projects at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), CA and possibly at the contractor?s facility. The objective of VSA support is to familiarize USAF Test Pilot School students and staff members with various aspects of the longitudinal, lateral, and directional modes of aircraft motion. The VSA capabilities being considered are as follows: elevator, aileron, and rudder response capability equal to or greater than 60 degrees per second; greater than or equal to 10 radians per second and Dutch Roll mode frequencies greater than or equal to 5 radians per second; damping ratios capabilities shall vary from unstable configurations to highly damped configurations; normal accelerations 2.5g minimum; aircraft capability to perform simulated operations handling tasks such as aggressive air-to-air tracking or air-to-ground weapons release tasks; center stick and side stick capabilities; stick dynamics to simulate friction, preload, freeplay, nonlinear gradients, bobweights, align with the capability to implement lead and lag stick command filters plus stick command pure time delay; data acquisition, recording, and telemetry capability; sufficient seating for a safety pilot, evaluation pilot, and at least one student/staff observer; high reliability with quick maintenance turn around capabilities that will support a minimum of two sorties per day; transponder equipped with Mode 3C, and an UHF radio; fixed gun sight installed; software and hardware, year 2000 compliant prior to the year 2000; programmable flight test Heads Up Display (HUD) is desired on the VSA. Provided safety instructor pilots must meet the following qualifications: Letter of Authorization (LOA) from FAA or appropriate type certificate as required; Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate; Civil Flight Instructor (CFI) or prior military instructor pilot experience; current in aircraft as per Federal Aviation Regulation parts 61 and 91; qualified to instruct from left and right seats. Basic period of performance is expected to be three years, 18 Oct 2004 through 30 Sep 2005, with two one-year option periods. SIC Code is 8299. All interested offerors that possess the capabilities to perform this type of support are requested to submit the following information: describe your firm?s capabilities to support the above described effort; business type and size (SB, SDB, 8(a), LB, etc.), whether or not these services are provided commercially and if so how are the services priced, and any alternate approaches to accomplishing the Government?s requirement. This is not a request for proposal. Please provide response via email to steven.barry@edwards.af.mil or via fax to 661-275-7838. Responses to this request for sources sought are requested no later than 02 Aug 2004.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 220 S. Wolfe Ave, Edwards AFB CA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 93524
- Record
- SN00626093-W 20040721/040719211806 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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