66 -- SHAFT ENGINE TEST INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM (SETI)

Notice Date

November 2, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, Contracts Department Hwy. 547 Attn:B129-2, Lakehurst, NJ, 08733-5083

ZIP Code

08733-5083

Solicitation Number

N68335-02-R-3103

Response Due

November 19, 2001

Point of Contact

Cindy Rolenc, Contract Specialist, Phone 732-323-2408, Fax 732-323-4822, Email rolencca@navair.navy.mil -- John Murtagh, Contracting Officer, Phone 732-323-2901, Fax 732-323-4822, Email murtaghjl@navair.navy.mil

Description

NAVAIR Lakehurst intends to procure via sole source from RACAL instruments Inc. a prototype Shaft Engine Test Instrumentation (SETI) System with Turboshaft Engine Test Program Sets (TPS's) for the T700, T58, T64, and T400 engines and their variants. The SETI will be designed to use Test Trailers, Lubrication skids, Fuel Systems, and Dynamometers from the existing A/E 37 T-24(v) and A/F37T-16(v) Turboshaft Engine Test Systems. The SETI TPSs will require the development of four sets of test program software and engine adapter assemblies (EAA): one for each engine to include each of its variants. The SETI TPS's will also include all new components that will be described in the system specification issued with the Request for Proposal (RP) as well as modifications to existing adapter cable designs to allow for interface with the Jet Engine Test Instrumentation (JETI) system's Electrical/Mechanical Junction Boxes. JETI is a consolidation of technology from two engine test system programs: the USAF Engine Test/Trim Automated System (ETTAS II a COTS item from RACAL Industries) and the USN Standard Engine Test System (SETS). The Navy intends to design the SETI to be at least 90% the same as the JETI system. The applicable JETI drawings and specifications will not be complete or available until the second quarter of FY02, which requires the Navy to make this a limited source procurement. The drawings and specifications that will be provided as deliverables under this prototype effort will be used to conduct a full and open competition for the production contract. The applicable JETI drawings and specifications will not be complete or available until the second quarter of FY02, which requires the Navy to make the prototype contract a limited source procurement. The drawings and specifications that will be provided as deliverables under this prototype effort will be used to conduct a full and open competition for the production requirements in FY04. The production RP will include a basic contract for 6 units with option(s) for up to 27 additional SETI's, a quantities of five (5) T400 EAA's, (12) T58 EAA's, (10) T64 EAA's, and (12) T700 EAA's. This action is being taken to limit the design and development portion of this effort and maximize the interchangeability of the components of the two systems to optimize cost savings in design and development engineering costs, test and evaluation, and life cycle support infrastructure. SETI will provide an integrated, computer based measurement, and automation system for the purpose of "I" Level testing of aircraft gas turbine engines in either indoor or outdoor environments. The system capabilities will include instrumentation, data acquisition, engine and facility control, and status display. The system will be operated worldwide at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air stations. The system will generally be installed in a transportable instrumentation and control (I&C) cab in order to withstand extremes of temperature and humidity, as well as contamination by dust, sand, salt fog and corrosive precipitation. Those, which are not, will be installed in a land-based enclosed engine test facility. The SETI system will perform all required data acquisition and performance calculations defined in each engine's and its individual variants' Intermediate Maintenance Manual, (IMM). The basic system will consist of necessary hardware and software to acquire raw analog engine data, perform signal conditioning and time averaging, perform specific engine performance calculations, and output the data results to a video display, printer and magnetic media. The hardware elements will include programming harness boxes, electrical and mechanical junction boxes and cable assemblies to interface the computerized instrumentation, data acquisition and control systems with the engine, fuel system, lube system and facility. It shall also have capability to perform diagnostics/troubleshooting on the engine under test and determine engine stability to enable the system to automatically record data at engine stabilization. The SETI will display all pertinent parameters for the engine under test, their target values, and operator instructions in accordance with the IMM. Control of engine and dynamometer operation, as well as facility functions, which will also be part of the total system capability. The result will be a system that integrates the computer-based functions of the JETI system with upgrades that meet the requirements for turboshaft engine testing, as specified in the SETI RP. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, the Government will consider all responses received within fifteen days after the date of publication of this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to open this requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received as a result of this notice of intent will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The POC is Ms. Cindy Rolenc phone: 732-323-2408, facsimile: 732-323-4822 or e-mail: rolencca@navair.navy.mil.

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