In accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acquisition Management System (AMS) guidance T3.2.2.4, the purpose of this announcement is to inform industry of the basis of the FAA’s intent to award a contract using single source procedures. 

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Headquarters (Washington, DC) intends to award a contract, with a period of performance of twelve (12) months, to Kansas State University (KSU).  KSU will provide to the FAA a data driven process to determine the range of concentrations of constituents and what constituents that are likely to occur in the cabin during normal operations and identify any sensor technology that potentially could be applied to detecting oil, deicing fluid, and hydraulic fluid contamination in bleed air contamination.

This single source effort is being made in accordance with the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, Section 326 (c), which states that “…the Administrator shall commission a study by the Airliner Cabin Environment Research Center of Excellence—

(1) to identify and measure the constituents and levels of constituents resulting from bleed air in the cabins of a representative set of commercial aircraft in operation of the United States;

(2) to assess the potential health effects of such constituents on passengers and cabin and flight deck crew;

(3) to identify technologies suitable to provide reliable and accurate warning of bleed air contamination, including technologies to effectively monitor the aircraft air supply system when the aircraft is in flight; and

(4) to identify potential techniques to prevent fume events.

Accordingly, a competitive solicitation is not available for this procurement. The FAA is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals.  Any response to this notice must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. E.T. on 01 July 2020. The POC for this announcement is Ryan Battad which can be reached via email at [email protected].