COBRA DANE

ATTN ALL INTERESTED OFFERORS: PLEASE GO TO FA7022-10-R-0025(COBRADANE) for the presolicitation notice for this acquisition. All further postings will be under FA7022-10-R-0025(COBRADANE). THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS NOTICE. VENDORS SHOULD NOT SUBMIT FORMAL PROPOSALS UNTIL A FORMAL REQUEST FOR PROPSAL IS POSTED TO THIS WEBSITE. This requirement is considered non-commercial in nature and any resultant contract will be awarded in accordance with FAR Part 15. Air Force ISR Agency Contracting is issuing this pre-solicitation notice for the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of the COBRA DANE (CD) Radar System. There are two entities involved: the CD Radar System, located at Eareckson AS, Shemya, Alaska, and the COBRA DANE Upgrade (CDU) Software Maintenance Management Facility, presently located in Woburn, MA. CD is an L-Band, computer-driven phased array radar system, whose primary mission is data collection in support of arms control and treaty verification of foreign strategic missile tests. Principal customers are the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), State epartment/Arms Control,Technology & Analysis (AC/TA), Missile Defense Agency (MDA)/Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS), and Space Command Space Surveillance for maintenance of the USAF catalog of orbiting objects, including observation of New Foreign Launches (NFLs) and Space Object Identification. The offeror shall have responsibility of all facets of Operations & Maintenance support as follows: a) Operations to assure system availability in response to all data collection periods of interest (POIs) 24/7, as necessary, b) Organizational and limited Depot-Level Maintenance (DLM), c) Material and specialized maintenance support d) Fully integrated logistics support, e) System engineering Hardware & Software (H/W & S/W) for sustaining and enhancing radar operations, f) Configuration Management of all O&M functions, including the CDU S/W facility, g) O&M of the CDU S/W Facility. The offeror must have sufficient knowledge of phased array radar technology and subsystems, to include high power Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) transmitters, receivers, digital signal processing, and system computers. The CD AN/FPS-108 is one-of-a-kind radar system with critical performance characteristics and mission availability requirements. The offeror must have sufficient experienced technical personnel skilled in O&M of advanced radar systems. Offerors must work with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and other vendors, or have organic facilities, to design, develop and fabricate replacement parts and subassemblies as they become obsolete or unmaintainable. As TWT technology is paramount in the CD system (96 Active tubes), offerors should emphasize their TWT experience (any band). Experience with PIN-Diode Phase Shifter and Time Delay Assembly maintenance and repair will be noted. Reverse engineering experience of obsolete components and assemblies will also be noted. Offerors must have expertise to develop and modify Ada software programs under VMS and UNIX operating systems, using the DEC Ada and Rationale Apex programming environments on VAX 6000-series mainframes and SUN workstations. Software engineering requirements are applicable to both on-site and at the CDU S/W facility. Detailed knowledge of data collection and space surveillance radar algorithms, and data analysis to determine system performance and data processing are essential. Offerors must provide personnel to operate and maintain all interior on-site and CDU S/W facility communications systems, in addition to coordinating communications anomalies with outside agencies. Communicators must be well versed in DoD communications procedures and maintain SECRET clearances to handle COMSEC accounts. Offerors need to demonstrate logistics capabilities to support remote locations with parts, supplies and equipment. Successful offeror will be provided all on-site GFE, spares, Precision Measuring Equipment (PME), and all GFE at the CDU S/W Facility and will be responsible for all property and configuration management. Offerors must have sufficient expertise to perform all scheduled and unscheduled (preventive and corrective) maintenance. Offerors will serve as the technological interface with Government and support contractors, along with user agencies, to resolve technical deficiencies. This acquisition will be conducted on an unrestricted basis, without set-aside. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code proposed for the requirement is 541330. The size standard for NAICS 541330 is $4.0M. The RFP will be available electronically on or about 6 Aug 10 on this website only. Fax, telephone, written or email requests for the solicitation package will not be honored. The anticipated award date will be on or around 31 Dec 2010. A firm-fixed price (FFP) contract is anticipated. The anticipated contract is for a base year plus four (4) one-year option periods. Potential contractors must be registered in the Central Contractor Registry to be eligible for award (see https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/default.aspx). It is mandatory to obtain a DUNS number prior to registering in CCR by calling Dun & Bradstreet @ 1-800-333-0505. All responsible firms may submit a proposal (after issuance of the RFP) and shall be considered for contract award. Any award resulting from this solicitation will be made utilizing the Price/Performance Trade-Off (PPT) Techniques whereas both past performance and price will be evaluated and award may be made to other than the lowest price. This notice does not constitute an IFB or RFP and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government will not otherwise pay for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow-up information requests. AFFARS 5352.201-9101, Ombudsman is applicable. Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the Contracting Officer for resolution. If resolution cannot be made by the Contracting Officer, concerned parties may contact the AF ISR Agency ombudsmen, Ms. Veronica Solis, AF ISR Agency/A4/7, 102 Hall Street, Ste 258, San Antonio, TX 78243-7091, PHONE 210-977-2288, FAX 210-977-2245, EMAIL: AFISRA.A47@LACKLAND.AF.MIL.