NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION (NOCA) FOR COMMON VERY LOW FREQUENCY (VLF) RECEIVER, INCREMENT 2 / BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) CALL 0003 WITH COLLINS AEROSPACE – PHASE 2

 Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), VLF Enterprise Program Office (NC), 202 Burlington Rd, Bldg. D, Bedford, MA 01730

Classification Code:  R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services

R425 Engineering and Technical Services

NAICS: 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE:

Synopsis:

This announcement constitutes a Notice of Contract Action (NOCA), by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), VLF Enterprise Program Office (NC) Hanscom AFB, MA, for a noncompetitive contract with Collins Aerospace. This synopsis is to provide for a Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) contract to provide operationally relevant testing of the Special Mode A (SMA) waveform by loading the waveform into an existing VLF receiver and performing flight test of that configuration. In preparation for testing, the contractor must develop a laboratory demonstration procedure and conduct a laboratory transmit-through-receive demonstration of the prototype waveform using capable E-6B Mission Software and a modified KGR-72. Collins Aerospace is the original equipment manufacturer for the KGR-72, which is the receiver for the CVRi1 program that is already being deployed on other platforms.

Anticipated award date April 2020.

Please note, this is not a request for competitive proposals.  However, all interested parties who believe they can meet the requirements are invited to submit in writing complete information describing their ability to provide the effort in the timeframe listed above.  The Air Force does not intent to award a contract on the basis of this notice or to otherwise pay for the information solicited.  Your responses will be treated as information only.  It will not be used as a proposal. 

Interested parties may submit unclassified responses to this notice by email.  Deadline date for the submittals is 5 MAR 2020 at 12PM Eastern Standard to Ian McGilvray, Contracting Officer, [email protected], and to Christopher Amoroso, Contract Specialist, [email protected].

An Ombudsman has been appointed in accordance with AFFARS 5352.201-9101, and does not diminish the authority of the Program Director or Contracting Officer, but communicates contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel.  When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern.

Matters of a routine or administrative nature concerning this acquisition should not be addressed to the Ombudsman, but rather to the Contracting Officer.

For any other concerns, interested parties may call the AFNWC Ombudsman, Acquisition Program Management Division (AFNWC/AQP), Kirtland AFB, NM.

AFNWC Ombudsman:

PZ Ombudsman

AFNWC/AQP
Kirtland AFB, NM 87117

Phone: (505) 846-5849

Please direct any question regarding this synopsis to Ian McGilvray, Contracting Officer, (781) 271-7306, or Christopher Amoroso, Contract Specialist, (781) 271-3080.