Paveway Repair and Engineering Support

PAVEWAY REPAIR & ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES ________________________________________ 1. NOTICE: This is not a solicitation but rather a Sources Sought Synopsis to determine potential sources for information and planning purposes only. 2. Contractor's support is essential to investigating and resolving problems identified in the field and/or testing and maintaining an accurate and effective Paveway weapon system. The purpose of this Sources Sought is to conduct market research in an effort to determine if responsible sources exist, to assist in determining if this effort can be competitive and/or a total Small Business Set-Aside is suitable. The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 541330 which has a corresponding Size standard of $38.5M. The Government will use this information to determine the best acquisition strategy for this procurement. The Government is interested in all small businesses to include 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran Owned, Hubzone and Women-Owned small business concerns. The government requests that interested parties respond to this notice if applicable and identify your small business status to the identified NAICS code. Additionally, please provide any anticipated teaming arrangements along with a description of similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers for the past three years. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the principle contract holder and the work accomplished by the teaming partners. 3. The United States Air Force (USAF) is seeking potential contractors to conduct Repair & Engineering Support Services for any and all variants of Paveway Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) kits and GPS/Laser Guided bomb systems manufactured by Raytheon Missile Systems. Reverse engineering may be included in this contract. Repairs include, but are not limited to, Guidance Unit assemblies, components, wiring harnesses, conduits, circuit boards, auto pilots, GPS systems, Inertial Navigation systems, laser light receptors, electrical components, mechanical Gyroscopes, physical interfaces, selectors, connectors, switches, housings, dome covers, Pneumatic systems, actuators, valves, seals, storage containers, gaskets, etc. Support services include, but are not limited to Engineering Evaluations/Investigations in accordance with Systems Evaluation Program (SEP) requirements, US Government initiated improvements/investigations, Telemetry Kit data collection and analysis, weapon accuracy issues determinations, Technical Order source data, contractor supported field/testing identified issues, Weapon System Evaluation Program (WSEP) support, Discrepancy Report (DR) investigation/evaluation, flight test support including release envelope analysis, Operation Flight Program (OFP) update support, weapon software support, Aging and Surveillance investigations/evaluations, Item Unique Identifier (IUID) requirements and other analysis. Paveway Laser Guided Bombs are purchased to a Performance Specification and as a result Raytheon Missile Systems owns the drawings and Technical Data Package. 4. The United States Air Force estimates a requirement for participation in up to four WSEP events annually which may include observations, TM data analysis and other potential performance testing, evaluations and analysis. 5. The anticipated contract will be a five (5) year effort. This anticipated contract will support US Air Force (USAF), US Navy (USN), NATO allies, FMS customers and other US Government organizations and projects. 6. The United States Air Force will be unable to supply data rights for this item. 7. No costs will be paid for any charges incurred in responding to this synopsis. 8. Questions regarding Sources Sought Synopsis should be addressed to Kellee Grose, (801) 777-4245 or via email at kellee.grose@us.af.mil.