Touchscreen Software Integration

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards AFB intends to award a sole source, Firm-Fixed Price contract, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, to Tech Source, Inc., of Altamonte Springs, FL. 1. SCOPE OF WORK. The contractor shall provide all personnel, tools, equipment, facilities, transportation, supervision, and other items and services necessary to develop and deliver, and to integrate the software required under the Performance Work Statement. 1.1 Background. The Rehost application is approximately 250,000 lines of C language software that runs on the Solaris UNIX operating system. Within the application there are approximately 20 logical components that were at one time labeled computer software configuration items (CSCIs). A Rehost backend CPU will typically have over 40 Rehost processes running concurrently and interacting via inter-process communication. There are typically two radar data acquisition CPU processors for redundancy, two backend CPU processors for redundancy, a dual Ethernet for redundancy, and a single Graphical Display Processor (GDP) workstation for each controller position. The Rehost application capabilities can be described at the highest level as the GDP, the Central Mode Controller (CMC, storing state and including radar message processing, RMP), the On-Line Database (OLDB), the Multiple Model Tracker (MMT), and the Radar Multiplexer (RMUX). Radar data is received at the RMUX, is projected into the system plane by the RMP, is tracked by the MMT, and is sent for display at the GDP. Flight Plans and other commands are entered at the GDP, executed at the CMC and OLDB, and distributed back to all GDPs. The Rehost application uses third party COTS software with Northrop Grumman modifications for the video card display drivers, and for the RMUX radar data acquisition across serial communication interfaces. The Rehost application contains a proprietary generic database and a GUI for site adaptation management. The Rehost application runs on Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 10 operating systems, on the Sun SPARC and on the Intel x86 hardware platforms. The code has been ported to the Linux and AIX operating systems. 1.2 Software Development. 1.2.1 Rehost Adaptation. The contractor shall provide software to implement functionality of their hardware within the Rehost environment. 1.2.2 Touchscreen Functionality. The contractor shall provide software to successfully integrate the functionality of the Tech Source 2K x 2K IR Touchscreen device (Light Touch) with the Rehost application. 1.2.3 Blended Windows. The contractor shall provide software to successfully integrate blended windows display functionality with the Rehost application. Contractors interested in this requirement should submit a complete technical package, which provides clear and convincing evidence that they can meet the Government's requirement. In addition, the response should include any special requirements for a commercial contract (i.e., Commercial Financing, Warranty Provisions, Delivery Information, etc.) in accordance with FAR Part 12. Anticipated Award date is 18 JUNE 2010. Responses should be submitted via: e-mail: albert.yeh@edwards.af.mil or by faxing, Fax #: 661-277-0470 (please call and verify that I have received the fax). This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, the Government will consider all responses received. A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.