The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) Wing (GPSW) will host Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Industry Day #1 on 23 and 24 January 2008. The GPSW will develop to projection ready status and include production options for MGUE multiple contractual efforts. The contractual efforts will be for separate form factors to meet the requirements of the lead platforms and fielding service. The goal of MGUE is to develop M-code capable receiver form factors to production ready status for lead platforms in each of the domains identified in the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) approved MGUE Capability Development Document (CDD). The receivers currently identified will be used in Ground, Air, Maritime, and Space applications as well as a common Hand-held unit. Additional contractual efforts or spiral developments may be required as other common requirements are identified. MGUE will implement a Global Positioning Systems Wing (GPSW) controlled security certification process, reduce unit and lifecycle costs, and provide a competitive multi-vendor environment for MGUE production. The GPSW will establish procurement contracts for common form factors and synchronize MGUE with the GPS space and control segment modernization. The purpose of Industry Day #1 is to provide the GPSW overview of MGUE as well as overviews of lead platform modernization. The MGUE overview will include program priorities, an acquisition strategy update, the MGUE engineering and integration approach, an overview of the Statement of Objectives (SOO) and a roadmap to get to contract award. To attend Industry Day #1, please register your Primary Contractor Team and submit visit requests as instructed below (Registration). All qualified small businesses are encouraged to attend. As part of Industry Day #1, Primary Contractor Teams will be afforded an opportunity to meet with the GPSW one-on-one. The Team is highly encouraged to take time to read through the available documents in the Bidders Library, as instructed below. If your Primary Contractor Team would like to participate in the Industry Day #1 one-on-one sessions with the GPS Wing, please make an appointment as instructed below. An additional POC for Industry Day #1 is Lt Derek Reimer, Project Engineer, Email: Derek.Reimer@losangeles.af.mil,(310) 653-3103. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Primary POC listed above. The Industry Day #1 presentations and follow-up one-on-one sessions will NOT contain any classified information. For updated information on Industry Day, including schedule changes or cancellation notices, visit www.fbo.gov (FedBizOps.gov) and the MGUE Bidders Library: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. BIDDERS LIBRARY: Access to the MGUE Bidders Library can be requested at https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. The following is posted to the library: Industry Day #1 Registration Form Industry Day #1 Schedule Map and Parking Instructions for the GPS SE&I Facility Statement of Objectives (SOO) Comment Resolution Matrix Relevant Documents/Interface Specifications If there is something that is not posted to the library that you would like to see please contact the Primary POC listed above. REGISTRATION: Please register by filling out the registration spreadsheet posted with this announcement for the entire Primary Contractor Team and returning it via email to the Primary POC. If you experience difficulties in registering, please contact the Primary POC. The registration form is also located on the MGUE Bidders Library in the Industry Day Folder: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. Each Primary Contractor Team is limited to five (5) people (Primary Contractor Team is defined as an offeror interested in becoming the prime contractor for a MGUE contractual effort). A visit request is required to gain access to the GPS SE&I Facility. Visit requests including each person attending can be sent through JPAS to SMO 4WNC15 or faxed to CAGE code 4WNC1 at (310) 781-8508. A map to the GPS SE&I facility and parking instructions are posted to the Bidders Library. ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS: Each Primary Contractor Team is invited to meet with the GPS Wing for a 45 minute one-on-one session during Industry Day #1. The available time slots and session format are listed in the MGUE Bidders Library: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. The GPSW will accommodate requests for preferred time slots on a first come, first served basis. Contact the primary POC via email to reserve a session. Contractors are urged to submit questions in advance for the one-on-one meetings. Please send questions to the primary POC via email. If necessary, the GPSW will hold additional one-on-one sessions from 28 Jan 08 thru 31 Jan 08. GOVERNMENT/OFFEROR TELECONS: The Government is also offering one telecon to each Primary Contractor Team beginning the week of 4 Feb 08 for the purpose of obtaining feedback on Industry Day #1 and improving Industry Day #2. To sign up for these telecons please contact the Primary POC. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS (for any resulting solicitation and contract): These efforts will require access to and processing of classified information up to and including TS/SCI (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) and SAP/SAR (Special Access Program/Special Access Requirements) security requirements. These acquisitions involve data that are subject to export control laws and regulations. A foreign disclosure review of the technical data has been accomplished and MGUE technical data are subject to export controls. Contact the Defense Logistics Services Center, 74 Washington Avenue N., Battle Creek, Michigan 40917-3084 (1-888-352-9333) or http://www.dlis.dla.mil/jcp for further information on the certification process. OMBUDSMAN: An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from potential offerors. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his/her concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman will communicate certain offeror issues, disagreements, and recommendations on this acquisition into the proper channels. The Ombudsmans role is not to diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer but to advocate an offerors concern on a non-attribution basis. The Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern when requested by the offeror. The Ombudsman will not participate in the evaluation of proposals or the source selection process for this acquisition. The Ombudsman is Mr. Jim Gill, Phone: (310) 653-1789, Email: James.Gill@losangeles.af.mil. DECLARATION: This publication is for information only and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), Government sponsorship of contractor charges against any existing Government contract for attendance or proposal efforts, nor a Government promise to pay for any information received in response to this announcement. See Numbered Notes: 9
