USAFE Contracting Squadron/LGC, Unit 3115, APO AE 09094-3115

R -- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (SETA) SOL F61521-97-R-5015 POC Contract Specialist, Cathy Castle 011-49-631-353-9181; Contracting Officer, Marsha Harris 011-49-631-353-9128 WEB: click here for USAFE business opportunities, http://www.usafe.af.mil/joint/cons/cons.html. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contracting specialist via e-mail, cathy.castle@ramstein.af.mil. The USAFE Contracting Squadron/LGCZA, Rhine Ordinance Barracks, Kaiserslautern, Germany is solicitating proposals on a full and open commercial competitive basis from qualified organizations for the acquisition of Systems and Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) in support of USAFE Command, Control, Communication, Intelligence, and other programs for computer based functions. This acquisition will provide USAFE a broad range of non-personal technical and management services. These include, Systems engineering, Test and Evaluation, Software and Hardware Maintenance and Modification, Program Management, Configuration Management, Data Management, Program Control, Program Analysis, Quality Assurance, and Special Studies. The contractor shall provide technical analyses in systems engineering specialty areas, and support USAFE programs in the development and planning of program documentation. Individual labor categories/levels of engineering of technical experts, non-technical experts and NATO vendor for each of the services will be established in the basic contract, together with the estimated number of man-hours for all labor categories. The prime contractor will be required to team/subcontract with a NATO/non-US vendor. Possession of a US security clearance up to Top Secret/SCI and/or NATO clearance will be necessary to perform some tasks.The proposed competitive acquisition will be a five year, firm fixed price, indefinite delivery requirements type contract. Request for Proposals will be issued on or about 16 Mar 98. Parties who wish to particpate in this acquisition may do so by providing your company name, a point of contact, phone number, fax number and e-mail address by 9 Mar 1998 to Cathy Castle by mail or via fax at 011-49-631-353-9250. Respondents to the previous synopsis for this acquisition are already included in the source list and do not have to respond to this solicitation. (0026)

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