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U -- HELP DESK/MOBILE TRAINING SUPPORT SOL DAHA23-99-Q-147 DUE 092099 POC Karen A. Smith, smithka@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil E-MAIL: smithka@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil, smithka@mo-arng.ngb.army.mil. The following information is hereby incorporated into Solicitation DAHA23-99-Q-0147: The duties of contractor personnel (listed in the original solicitation) are representative of activities the contractor is to accomplish in coordination with the government and other contracted support. These personnel will normally be "teamed" with more senior, technically knowledgeable individual assigned/provided by the government. Training classes/briefings will be scheduled 30 days in advance by the COR. The contractor must provide one trainer for each scheduled event given a 30 day notice of the event. Deliverables remain the same as listed in the original synopsis except delete (5) Monthly Progress Report and (6) In-Progress Review and add Weekly Production Schedule: the Contractor will provide the COR with a production schedule that details planned activities for the following week for each person assigned/billing to the project. Weekly Production Schedule is due each Friday (preceding the week's activities). Contractor will identify one representative to act as lead, and coordinate with COR on contract activities. COR and contractor lead will coordinate the next weeks activities and future travel/training schedules. The government billing period is monthly. Travel Time/hours will be counted within the scope of work. Overtime will not be supported. The number of hours stated in the requirement is fixed. Travel on holidays may occur, but only rarely, with at least 30 days prior notice to the contractor. The government schedules training for the Active Army and Reserves Components for the fiscal year. The government will maintain the master training schedule. All travel will be conducted using Invitational Travel Orders, provided by the government, using the per diem rates established in the Joint Travel Regulation(s). The contractor, as a component of the routine support requirement will plan/schedule travel arrangements (airline, lodging, auto reservations). Arrangements will be approved by the COR, to ensure thatthe must efficient use of travel funds (consistent with the JTR is achieved). The contractor, using GFE equipment and materials. will produce and ship training materials/discs in a timely fashion. The contractor will assign specific trainers to training missions. The government, supported by the contractor will market SATS/TROUPERS training to Active Army and Reserve Components. Assume that units receiving training already have SATS/TROUPERS software sets for distribution to students. Additional copies may be provided by the government. Mobile training support personnel must have the technical ability to load the software on a pre-existing machine. The government will receive/maintain authorization letter signed by field grade officer or civilian equivalent. The minimum number of training events is 24; the maximum is constrained by the fixed number of man-hours. There may be a mixture of government and contractor personnel supporting mobile and on-site training. The contractor should assume that one contractor person will be deployed to support each class occurrence, without regard to government participation. The contractor may not provide the team lead for the training team in all occurrances. The mobile training team will always be at least two persons. UTMS courses, training and sustainment will be performance oriented. The government, supported by the contractor will market, schedule, and deliver Commander/Staff briefings which will be for information only. Government furnished equipment (GFE) includes laptops and LCD projectors. Pre-existing lesson plans, programs of instruction, and artifacts will be provided as Government Furnished Information (GFI). Access to GFI and subject matter experts (SMEs) will be provided on-site. The government intends to develop computer based training capabilities in association with this requirement. ASAT (Automated Systems Approach to Training) does not apply to this requirement. Efforts associated with developing, installing, testing and evaluating UTMS will be conducted by the contractor, in coordination with the COR. Validation will be accomplished using government and contractor developed scripts and checklist coordinated with the COR. TROUPERS stands for Training, Readiness and Operations, Unit Planning, Execution Resourcing System. The COR will coordinate and prioritize effort through the contractor lead person. No security clearance is required. The operating system for work stations is MS Windows. The network platform is Windows NT. Contractor to acknowledge this amendment in his proposal. Proposal is due September 30, 1999 no later than 1300 hours. Posted 09/13/99 (W-SN379454). (0256)

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