58 -- SERVICES FOR COMMUNICATIONS-ELECTRONICS C

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), Special Communications Requirements (SCR) Division, Patuxent River, St. Inigoes, MD has identified a requirement for contractor services in support of the design, development, integration, test and evaluation, installation, fielding, certification, maintenance, and logistic support of Navy/Joint/National Agency electronic equipment, systems and subsystems essential to the mission functions in the field of Navy/Joint/National Agency Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) communications-electronics. The contractor shall provide its own support facilities needed to perform this tasking. Facilities shall be in the proximity of Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), St. Inigoes, Maryland as it is necessary for the facility location to satisfy daily technical and management operation of the resultant contract. This procurement will be processed under full and open competition. The Government anticipates award of a cost plus fixed fee contract, with a projected start date of 1 November 2006. The total period of peformance inclusive of options will span 5 years, with an estimated level of effort totalling 2,006,000 hours. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541330 with a small business size standard of $23.0 Mil. Basis for award of the contract will be best value to the Government as determined by use of tradeoff source selection process defined at Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.101-1. Evaluation factors for award and relative importance thereof will be identified in the forthcoming solicitation. It is the Government's intention to release the solicitation and subsequent amendments to the NAVAIR Home Page at http://www.navair.navy.mil/doing_business/open_solicitations. To access the solicitation, select N00421-05-R-0102. All interested parties should register on the Interested Vendors List (IVL). The IVL has now been successfully enabled and can be accessed by clicking on the button entitled ?Register as Interested Vendor? at the following website: http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DON/NAVAIR/N00421/N00421%2D05%2DR%2D0102/listing.html. If you have any difficulty adding your company to the IVL, please e-mail your Company Name, Address, Phone Number, Email address, Point of Contact, and Business Type directly to Larry Carter at contact@example.gov. Please register on the IVL by 23 June 2006. In the interest of acquisition streamlining, prospective offerors are strongly encouraged to use the Internet for the purpose of submitting requests relative to this solicitation. Telephone requests for the solicitation will neither be accepted nor returned. A paper copy of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments will not be available or issued. The anticipated release date of the RFP is NLT 29 June 2006. Any questions regarding this solicitation should be directed to: Department of the Navy, Contracts (Attn: Larry W. Carter, Code 2.5.1.2.2.5), Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Building 8009, Villa Road, St. Inigoes, MD 20684-0010; or preferably via E-mail at address cited above. The point of contact for this procurement action is Larry Carter, Code 2.5.1.2.2.5, telephone +1 (555) 000-0000; and the Contracting Officer is Mr. J. Larry Mattingly, email contact@example.gov, telephone +1 (555) 000-0000.