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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 2,1999 PSA#2380

ACC Contracting Squadron, 130 Douglas Street, Suite 400, Langley AFB, VA 23665-2791

L -- AIR COMBAT COMMAND TECHNICAL, ENGINEERING, AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT SUPPORT (ACCTEOMS) SOL F44650-00-R0001 POC Timothy Cannella, Contract Manager, at (757)764-4247 or Capt. Bob Beckett, Contracting Officer, at (757)764-4853 WEB: Click here to access the government Electronic Posting, http://www.eps.gov. E-MAIL: Click here to contact Mr. Tim Cannella, Contract Manager,, timothy.cannella@langley.af.mil. Air Combat Command (ACC) at Langley AFB, VA has identified a requirement for non-personal technical, systems engineering, and operational management services to support HQ ACC Directorates and the Air Force Command and Control Innovation and Training Group (AFC2TIG) at Hurlburt Fld, FL, it's subordinate organizations, and other Department of Defense (DoD) and Government agencies working jointly with AFC2TIG. The period of performance will cover an eighteen month base period with four, one-year options. The government expects to make award on or about 1 Mar 99. This action will be issued as a Request For Proposal (RFP) on or about 1 Oct 99 via the Electronic Posting System Internet site at www.eps.gov. A Draft Statement of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposal will also be issued via the EPS site on or about 15 Aug 99. An Industry Day designed to provide contractors information on the ACCTEOS program and to obtain industry input is scheduled for July 14th and 15th, 1999 at Hurlburt Field, FL. A Preproposal conference will also be held at Hurlburt Field on or about 15 September 1999. Instructions and Directions for the Industry Day and Preproposal conference will be available on the EPS Web Page on 2 July 1999. Interested offerors are responsible for monitoring the web pages for the release of the solicitation and all subsequent amendments and correspondence related to the solicitation. Offeror's must download the RFP from the web page no hard copies will be mailed. Interested firms must provide their business size, company name, address, point of contact, phone number, and fax number to Mr. Tim Cannella at timothy.cannella@langley.af.mil. The government encourages interested parties to review and provide comments on all draft RFP documents provided on the Internet. The Government intends to award between 5 and 8 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts. The Government also intends to utilize the procedures at FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, to develop, solicit, and award the solicitation and resulting contracts. Therefore, the government intends to rely greatly on market research and industry input in formulating their acquisition strategy. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code for this requirement is 8742, Management Consulting Services, which has a small business size standard of $5M. The government intends to partially set-aside this procurement under the auspice of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 19. Therefore, one or more contract awards resulting from this solicitation will be set-aside for small or small disadvantaged business. Examples of services to be performed include systems planning, concept exploration; requirements analysis; alternatives analysis; systems engineering; risk reduction and management; concept of operational development; training development; planning and instruction; software development, verification, validation, and maintenance; advanced concepts and tactics development; systems effectiveness engineering and logistics; design; test and demonstration; configuration control and operations and maintenance of fielded demonstrations equipment; worldwide contingency response support analysis; transition of successful demonstration equipment to mainstream acquisition and information operations. This effort will also be directed toward supporting development and evaluation of prototype systems to determine potential operational and military utility; improving the efficiency of rapid collection management and system taskings in support of military operations; increasing the frequency, realism and scope of exercises and training with the AFC2TIG, including modeling and simulation, procurement and development of hardware and software for accessing the military utility of joint forces systems in support of military operations with emphasis on aerospace operations; educating and training activities including advanced classroom instruction on aerospace engagement in military operations and wargaming; aerospace tactics and doctrine development; supporting efforts to enhance tactical utility of AFC2TIG assets; providing detailed support for Real World contingencies, exercises and demonstrations, and joint forces capabilities at all levels of command. The contractor shall provide support of information systems to ensure operations are appropriately managed, controlled, secured, and maintained. Information operations include risk management engineering and analysis of information system architectures. Establishment of a configuration control and security accreditation office to support present and future automated information and communication systems; systems administration; web master software support and communication center operations. The contractor shall support testing and evaluating joint forces warfighter operations, simulations, and exercises to include; operation analysis, readiness and supportability; human factors; questionnaire development; training; test tool development and maintenance, documentation, test resource estimating and reporting. The contractor shall be prepared to support operations and provide exercises worldwide. Posted 06/30/99 (W-SN348880). (0181)

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