69--H-1 LOT V TRAINING SYSTEM PROCUREMENT FOR AH-1Z FLIGHT TRAINING DEVICEs (FTDs)

The Government has issued the Draft Solicitation or Request for Proposal (RFP). Offerors may request the Government Furnished Information (GFI), Navair Portable Source Initiative (NPSI), Statement of Work, Performance Specifications, and Exhibits as outlined below. Offerors are hereby informed that the documents may change. All final documents will be included in the RFP. The Government anticipates posting the RFP on the Navy Electronic Commerce Online (NECO) website at https://www.neco.navy.mil and the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website at http://www.fbo.gov/ in January 2016. A. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED INFORMATION (GFI) AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS (NDA) GFI required for proposal preparation will be provided through NAWCTSD via Compact Disc (CD) or Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) formatted media. If requested and approved, proprietary data for which the Government has distribution rights will be made available to the offeror. A list of available GFI is provided in Section J, Attachment 7. The GFI that will be provided to offerors (IAW DFARS Part 227) shall be protected according to its markings. The offeror interested in obtaining copies of the requirements documents shall submit Attachment L-1, AH-1Z FTD GFI Request Form to the cognizant Contracting Officer, via the Contract Specialist, Ms. Elouise Bryant (contact@example.gov) in order to have the CD or DVD sent to them. Requests for GFI shall be executed by an individual with authority to bind the company in such an agreement. Once Attachment L-1, AH-1Z FTD GFI Request Form is processed and approved by the cognizant Contracting Officer, a CD or DVD will be sent to the requesting offeror. If any changes affect the submitted Attachment L-1, AH-1Z FTD GFI Request Form the offeror shall update the form and resubmit to the Government. Data disclosure is governed by the restrictive markings on the GFI. Several GFI documents are marked with Export-Controlled markings. To receive access to the Export-Controlled Data, the offeror shall demonstrate compliance with the Joint Certification Office (JCO) and be a “Qualified U.S. Contractor? as established in its certification. The Government will verify the certification information via a Joint Certification Program (JCP) search on the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Logistics Information Service website (http://www.dlis.dla.mil/jcp/search.aspx). If the Data Custodian contact information shown on the DLA JCP website is no longer accurate, offeror shall ensure to update their DD 2345 Form (Attachment L-4) with current Data Custodian information and submit for processing to the JCO. The offeror may request expedited processing. The offeror shall advise the Government if any other discrepancies exist. The contractor shall comply with NAVAIR notice 5252.227-9507, Notice Regarding the Dissemination of Export-Controlled Technical Data (Oct 2005), and DFARS clause 252.225-7048, Export-Controlled Items (JUN 2013). Any use of the GFI shall be subject to Clause 252.227-7025, Limitations on the Use or Disclosure of Government-Furnished Information Marked with Restrictive Legends. B. NAVAIR PORTABLE SOURCE INITIATIVE (NPSI) SAMPLE DATA SETS, FULL DATA SETS and DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT Offerors interested in receiving NPSI datasets shall prepare Attachment L-2 and submit it to the Government. In accordance with the instructions in Attachment L-2, Offerors shall identify/select any of the listed items they request to receive. Subsequently, the Government will provide the requested item(s). If this is an Offeror’s second or subsequent request, do not request items previously requested and received under this solicitation. Pursuant to this request, some of the NPSI material being provided by the Government may contain technical data, the export of which is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et seq.) or the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, Title 50, U.S.C., App. 2401 et seq. Therefore, it is also requested Attachment L-1Government Furnished Information (GFI) Request and Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) be submitted with this request, if it has not been previously submitted. Offerors requesting NPSI datasets shall provide external hard drive(s) with no less than the sum of the storage capacities requested (per Attachment L-2) together with Attachment L-1. The external hard drive(s) may be dropped off by an Offeror or shipped to Ms. Elouise Bryant at the following address: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division Code: AIR-2.5.3.4 Elouise Bryant 12211 Science Dr. Orlando, FL 32826 Solicitation Number: N61340-16-R-2428 Important note: The Government will reformat the external drive provided by the requestor prior to copying NPSI material onto the drive. Requestors are advised that any and all information contained on a submitted drive will be lost and unrecoverable. Offerors are requested to track shipment of the external hard drive. If an Offeror chooses to drop off the external hard drive off, a visit request may be required. If an Offeror chooses to ship the drive(s), prepaid return shipping labels shall be included. Please contact Elouise Bryant to process the visit request. It is anticipated that it will take the Government up to two weeks to process each dataset request once the external hard drive is received. Once the request is processed, the Government will send the external hard drive(s) back to each Offeror using prepaid return shipping label(s) provided by the Offeror or contact the Offeror to pick up the external hard drive(s) locally from the address listed above. C. AMRDEC SAFE ACCESS FILE EXCHANGE (AMRDEC) FOR CERTAIN ATTACHMENTS and EXHIBITS IN SECTION J The following Attachments and Exhibits listed in Section J listed below will be made available via the AMRDEC Safe Access File Exchange due to some of the documents markings: • Attachment 1: Statement of Work (Draft) • Attachment 2: Performance Specification (Draft) • Exhibits A – T (Draft) The offeror interested in obtaining copies of the documents shall submit their request to the cognizant Contracting Officer, via the Contract Specialist, Ms. Elouise Bryant (contact@example.gov) in order to have the AMRDEC password sent to them. Requests for attachments shall be executed by an individual with authority to bind the company in such an agreement. Once the request is processed and approved by the cognizant Contracting Officer, an AMRDEC password will be sent to the requesting offeror. Recipients will automatically be notified via email when they have been added as a recipient to a package. The email they receive will contain a link and a password. Clicking on the link will take the recipient to a page where they will be asked for the password. The best way to enter the password is to copy it from the email and then paste it into the password box. After logging in, the recipient will be able to download all the files within the package. We recommend right-clicking on each file and selecting the Save Target As option to select the location to save the file to. After downloading every file within the package, the recipient will not be able to log back in to download the files again. Simply logging in or starting a download will not lock the user out. In order to be locked out, the recipient must successfully download every file within the package.