A--F-15 ESTS Modernization Program SB Set-Aside

Notice of Small Business Set Aside The F-15 ESTS Modernization Program is an Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) program. The F-15 Electronic Systems Test Set (ESTS) is an Intermediate – level support equipment system providing maintenance & repair for approximately 50 F-15 Line Replaceable Units (LRU). The system consists of a station, Interface Test Adapters (ITA), ancillary equipment, and associated cables located at all F-15 operating locations and the depot at Robins as well as Northrop-Grumman, Rolling Meadows, Ill. The station (62 units) itself will become increasingly difficult to maintain and ultimately unsustainable beginning in FY08 unless known obsolescence for a variety of component parts is addressed. The overarching program objective is to avoid stations becoming Not Mission Capable (NMC). The government plans to issue, tentatively set for Sep 2007, a request for proposal that will require offerors to provide a plan that provides retrofit hardware improvements addressing obsolete parts within the planned funding profile and meets the overarching program objective. Respondents should maximize addressing the projected component obsolescence issues within the planned funding profile, i.e., address as many components as possible with the given amount of funding. In addition, offerors will be required to demonstrate improvement to station MTBF as well as meeting the current performance requirements. IAW FAR 19.502-2 “Total Small Business Set-Asides” the proposed contract is 100% set aside for small business concerns. The requirement’s North American Industry Classification System Code is 336413 “Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing” with a small business size standard of 1000 employees. The government does not intend to make an award on the basis of this small business set aside announcement or otherwise pay for any information received herein. For more information on "F-15 ESTS Modernization Program SB Set-Aside", please refer to: https://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixs_solicitation.asp?id=5278