Provide Deployable Air Traffic Control Facility (DATCF)

This public announcement is a market survey. The responses to this announcement will be used for informational purposes only. This is not a screening information request or request for proposal. The purpose of this market survey is to solicit capability statements to determine the marketplace ability to provide the items described below, and to ascertain if there are small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses or 8(a) certified firms that can provide the described items and services. The FAA will not pay for any information received or costs incurred in preparing the response to the market survey. Any cost associated with submitting a response to this market survey is solely at the responding vendor’s expense. The FAA has a requirement for Deployable Air Traffic Control Facilities (DATCF), which will consist of modified ISO (International Standard for Organization) freight containers with a Tower Cab module which will be ‘stick-built’ by the contractor to integrate into a fully functional Air Traffic Control Facility capable of long-term use. The DATCF will include but is not limited to the following systems: power and electrical, lightning/grounding protection, HVAC, fire/life safety, vibration & seismic controls and necessary electronics and other systems necessary to support a fully operational Air Traffic Control facility. Responding sources must have the capability to fabricate, deliver and then assemble the DATCF on-site to provide a turn-key facility. The Principal North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) size standard code for this requirement is 334511, Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing with a size standard of 750 employees. Capability Statement: All responders must provide a Capability Statement that addresses the following (in order): a. A brief description of your company’s expertise and qualifications for providing mobile air traffic control towers or other modified ISO freight container structures of more than one story in height. Include the number of years’ experience in providing these structures, the total number of structures provided, and your production capacity; b. Identify products provided under previous contracts that are similar in size, scope and complexity to this effort. Provide delivery capabilities to include time-lines from receipt of order. Identify commercial and military sales history of these or similar items over the last five years, to include dates, customers and quantities provided; c. Identify vendor capability to provide periodic or on-going maintenance of mobile air traffic control towers or similar structures and associated equipment both in storage and in use configurations; d. Identify your firm’s programmatic approach (access to additional resources, skills, subcontractors, etc), if necessary to perform the anticipated work. Responding vendors must provide the following: a. Capability Statement as defined in items a - d above; b. Completed Business Declaration Form (attached to this announcement); c. Copy of SBA 8(a) Certification Form and/or proof of service-disabled veteran-owned small business status (if applicable); d. Company point(s) of contact, telephone number(s), email address(es) and mailing address. NOTES: Submissions must be emailed to contact@example.gov, and are limited to 20 pages in length. Only Electronic submissions will be accepted. The electronic submission should be in either Microsoft Word or portable document format (PDF) format. Due to size limitations, any files over 10MB should be submitted in multiple emails. Only one submission per responding firm will be accepted. Please put the announcement number and title (DATCF) in the email subject line. All Submissions must be received by 5:00 PM CT on September 22, 2016. For questions, requests for additional information or questions regarding this market survey, contact Jeff Adkins, Contracting Officer, via the email provided above. Submissions will not be returned. Since this is not a screening information request or request for proposal, no results will be issued to the responding firms. No solicitation for these items exists at this time. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced on the FAA Contract Opportunities website. It is the vendor’s responsibility to monitor the website for release of the solicitation. If you're viewing this announcement from a source other than Federal Aviation Administration Contract Opportunities (FAACO), visit https://faaco.faa.gov/index.cfm/announcement/view/25463 to view the original announcement.