MODIFICATION
70 -- DIRECT IMPROVEMENT AND SUSTAINMENT CONTRACT (DISC)(FORMERLY CLS) NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION
- Notice Date
- 11/25/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- 5 Eglin Street Building 1618 Hanscom AFB, MA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- FA8726-06-R-0001
- Response Due
- 2/25/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/25/2006
- Point of Contact
- 2Lt Ann Tano, 781-377-8903 2Lt Joe Megery, 781-377-7798
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Click Here to E-mail the POC
(joseph.megery@hanscom.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is not a solicitation, but a Notice of Contract Action. The United States Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Electronic Systems Center, Network Centric Operations/Integration Systems Wing, Global Information Grid Systems Group, Contracting Division (GIGSG/PK) intends to award a sole source Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) contract to General Dynamic C4 Systems, Needham Heights, MA, for Improvement and Sustainment (formerly CLS) of the Defense Injection/Reception Emergency Action Message Command and Control Terminal (DIRECT). The requirements for this action were previously described in a Sources Sought synopsis published in FedBizOps on 16 September 2005, as amended by a second Sources Sought synopsis published on 28 November 2005. Contract award will be not later than 28 February 2006. The basic period of contract performance will be March 2006 through February 2007, with one-year options through February 2011. The authority for this action is 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. DIRECT is a component of the Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN). DIRECT enables Nuclear Component Commanders to generate, release, transmit, receive, process, acknowledge, and readdress Emergency Action Messages (EAMs), Emergency Action Support Message (EASMs), and Non-Emergency Action Messages (non-EAMs) over all available communications channels. DIRECT equipment is currently installed at seven Nuclear Combatant Commander command centers at NMCC, NMCC Site R, USSTRATCOM, USJFCOM, USNORTHCOM, USEUCOM, and USPACOM, and at a DIRECT Software Support Facility at General Dynamics. Overall DIRECT Improvement and Sustainment Contract (DISC) objectives are: (1) provide organizational maintenance at the sites where DIRECT is installed, (2) provide depot maintenance for both hardware and software, (3) accomplish Technical Refresh of all systems to avoid system degradation caused by parts obsolescence and inability to obtain support for vendor items, (4) perform Special Studies as authorized by the Government, (5) accomplish Work Requests for repair of failed items as authorized by the Government, (6) install one additional system presently in storage at a site to be determined, and (7) update DIRECT communications system interfaces as required by user agencies. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. If a firm believes they are capable of fully satisfying the Government's requirements, they may identify their interest and capability within 15 calendar days of this publication to GIGSG/PK, Attn: Lt Joe Megery, 5 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731, phone (781) 377-7798, e-mail joseph.megery@hanscom.af.mil. The Government will review all responses, without prejudice, whether or not the Government initially determines that another firm is fully qualified to fulfill the DIRECT Program requirements. See Note 26. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (25-NOV-2005). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 26-NOV-2005. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
-
ESC Business Opportunities Web Page
(http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil)
- Place of Performance
- Address: N/A
- Zip Code: N/A
- Country: N/A
- Zip Code: N/A
- Record
- SN00938018-W 20051128/051126211631 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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