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19AQMM19R0166 SOLITUDE

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SECTION B – SUPPLIES OR SERVICES AND PRICES/COSTS

B.1 OVERVIEW

The Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Medical Services, Directorate of Operational Medicine (MED/DMD/OM) has a requirement for a qualified contractor to provide multi-mission aircraft and aviation support services. The contractor will be responsible for providing on-call aircraft services for use by DOS to perform emergency deployment of personnel and equipment, and retrieval of eligible personnel, including personnel that are critically ill and may or may not be infected with unique and highly communicable pathogens.

B.2 TYPE OF CONTRACT

a) This is a single-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 16.504 (Indefinite-Quantity Contracts)for commercial items (FAR 12)

b) Specific tasks or work to be performed will be clearly identified at the task order level.

c) The contract type(s) for an individual task order will be one or a combination of Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials, and/or Labor Hours in FAR part 16 (Types of Contracts) depending on one or more factors identified in FAR 16.104 (Factors in Selecting Contract Types). To the extent practicable the Government plans to award on a fixed price basis as defined in FAR 16.202. Negotiated firm-fixed-price includes direct labor costs, direct non-labor costs, applicable indirect costs, and profit.

d) This is a non-personal services contract, as defined in FAR 37.101. Inherently governmental functions, as described in FAR 7.503 or by the ordering agency, are prohibited under this contract. The Government will neither supervise Contractor employees nor control the method by which the Contractor performs the required tasks. The Contractor shall manage its employees and guard against any actions that are of the nature of personal services or give the perception of personal services. The Contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer immediately if it perceives any actions that constitute personal services. This contract shall not be used to perform any inherently governmental functions.

e) This acquisition will be 100% set aside for Small Business.

B.3 MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM CONTRACT QUANTITIES

a) The Government shall meet the IDIQ contract minimum of $50,000 (inclusive of all direct costs, indirect costs, and profit/fee) through the issuance of task order(s) within the IDIQ contract’s effective (i.e., ordering) period.

b) The maximum quantity for the IDIQ contract’s effective (i.e., ordering) period, including any extension(s), shall be any quantity or combination of supplies and services not exceeding $500,000,000 (inclusive of all direct costs, indirect costs, and profit/fee).

B.4 PRICING STRUCTURE

a) The following CLIN (contract line item number) will be funded for this IDIQ.

b) The following are the negotiated firm-fixed-unit prices (to be inserted at IDIQ award):

BASE PERIOD (Year 1)

BASE PERIOD (Year 2)

BASE PERIOD (Year 3)

BASE PERIOD (Year 4)

BASE PERIOD (Year 5)

OPTION YEAR 1

OPTION YEAR 2

OPTION YEAR 3

OPTION YEAR 4

OPTION YEAR 5

SIX MONTH OPTION EXTENSION PERIOD

B.5 TRAVEL COSTS

a) Travel under this contract is defined as Contractor air and ground transportation, lodging, meals and incidental expenses, and passport/visa costs.

b) Travel costs shall be allocated to Sub-CLIN X001V (Other Direct Costs).

c) Except as otherwise provided herein, the Contractor shall be paid its allowable travel costs in accordance with FAR 31.205-46 (Travel Costs).

d) Travel must be directly related to and required for performance of the contract

e) Travel costs are authorized only for travel beyond a 50-mile radius of the Contractor employee’s local place of performance (official duty station) whenever work is required to be accomplished at a remote work site unless authorized in writing by the COR. No travel costs (or associated labor time during travel) shall be allowable for work performed at a Contractor’s local office or any other work site within a 50-mile radius of the Contractor employee’s local place of performance (official duty station). No travel costs (or associated labor time during travel) shall be allowable for telecommuting beyond (or within) a 50-mile radius of the Contractor’s local place of performance (official duty station).

f) Costs when using a privately owned vehicle (POV) for official travel are allowable provided that such costs do not exceed costs that would have resulted from use of other reasonable transportation methods (e.g., taxi, airplane, train). Reasonable associated costs, such as tolls and parking fees, are also generally allowable. The Contractor shall submit, as an attachment to its invoice, evidence to support the reasonableness of POV costs.

g) When traveling in a POV for official travel, the Contractor shall be paid mileage costs at a rate that does not exceed the POV mileage rate established by the Internal Revenue Service.

h) Costs for car rentals for official travel are allowable provided that: such rentals are consistent with good business practice; such costs do not exceed costs that would have resulted from use of other reasonable transportation methods (e.g., taxi, airplane, train); and such costs do not exceed the actual cost of renting a compact automobile (maximum of one automobile for four Contractor personnel), unless extenuating circumstances (e.g., excess baggage) require other arrangements and Contracting Officer or Contracting Officer’s Representative approval is obtained. Reasonable associated costs, such as tolls and parking fees, are also generally allowable.

i) Travel must be authorized in advance by the Contracting Officer’s Representative or Government Technical Monitor.

j) The Contractor shall be responsible for ensuring that all personnel who will be required to travel outside the United States have a current and valid passport. The Contractor shall be responsible for obtaining any visas and work permits required for travel to foreign countries under this contract. The Contractor’s costs for obtaining and maintaining passports, visas, and work permits will be generally allowable, but the Contractor shall pro-rate equitably such costs if they will benefit cost objectives (e.g., contracts) other than this cost objective. The Government will not reimburse the Contractor for travel expenses when travel is cancelled or modified as a result of the Contractor’s failure to obtain a visa. The Government will not reimburse the Contractor for the use of private visa procurement services provided by a third party.

k) If work under this contract will be performed at the Government site at the Department of State main building, 21st and Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20520, or other State Annexes in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, daily commuting time and expenses between the Department of State site and some other location, such as a home office, shall not be allowable under this contract. However, commuting time and expenses between the Department of State site and some other location, such as a home office, shall be allowable when performing occasional official business (e.g., to attend a meeting at the Department of State site).

l) Pursuant to FAR 47.402, 47.403, and the Fly America Act, the Contractor is required to use a U.S.-flag air carrier service unless specific conditions exist. If such conditions exist, the Contractor shall submit with its voucher a memorandum explaining why it did not use a U.S.-flag air carrier service. Reimbursement is contingent upon Government acceptance of such explanation.

m) Foreign transaction fees for ATMs (automated teller machines) and credit cards while Contractor employees work overseas are allowable as long as such fees are in accordance with each of the following:

The Contractor shall show on each applicable voucher the details of the actual incurred foreign transaction fees for ATMs and credit cards while working overseas, including the rate of conversion and any commission charges.

B.6 MATERIALS

a) The cost of materials associated with a Fabrication project shall be included in the Firm Fixed Price proposal and subsequent award.

b) All other allowable material costs shall be allocated to Sub-CLIN X001Y (Other Direct Costs – Non-Aviation Program).

c) This subsection will be used when the Government requires current and future in-scope supplies (i.e., travel costs, supplies, materials, other direct costs).

B.7 SPECIAL AVIATION SUPPORT SERVICES

a) This subsection applies to Sub-CLIN X001BB (Other Multi-Mission Aircraft and Aviation Support Services).

b) This subsection will be used when the Government requires current and future in-scope special aviation support services.

c) All work performed under Sub-CLIN X001BB will be done as a Task Order on a firm-fixed-price basis.

B.8 DEFENSE BASE ACT (DBA) INSURANCE

a) DBA Insurance costs are unallowable for performance in the United States.

b) DBA Insurance costs are generally allowable for performance outside the United States, but only for covered Contractor and subcontractor employees. The following are covered Contractor and subcontractor employees:

1. United States citizens or residents;

2. Individuals hired in the United States or its possessions, regardless of citizenship; and

3. Local nationals and third country nationals where contract performance takes place in a country where there are no local worker’s compensation laws.

c) In addition, DBA Insurance costs are generally allowable for performance outside the United States, but only when such costs accord with the terms of the Contractor’s DBA Insurance policy, law, and regulation.

d) The Contractor’s DBA Insurance policy shall be with a carrier approved by the United States Department of Labor to provide DBA Insurance, or the Contractor shall be a self-insured employer authorized by the United States Department of Labor to provide DBA Insurance.

B.9 RATES

B.9.1 CEILING INDIRECT COST RATES

a) This section applies to materials portion of time-and-materials task orders or line items, and any progress payments based on costs under fixed-price task orders or line items.

b) The following table displays the negotiated ceiling indirect cost rates:

Allocation Base Contractor Fiscal Year Period

c) If the Government uses the quick-closeout procedure provided in FAR 52.216-7 (Allowable Cost and Payment), the Government will not pay indirect cost rates that exceed the respective negotiated ceiling indirect cost rates.

B.9.2 FIXED PROFIT PERCENTAGES

a) This section applies when profit is an applicable element (e.g., under fixed-price, labor-hour, and time portion of time-and-materials arrangements) and when:

4. proposing and negotiating new cost elements (e.g., new labor categories and other direct costs) in the contract or task order; and/or

5. changes (i.e., additions and/or deletions) in negotiated contract or task order pricing occur.

b) Examples of this section’s applicability are when proposing and negotiating:

1. fully-loaded hourly labor rates for labor categories not already identified in the contract or task order;

2. fixed-price task orders;

3. fixed-price line items in a task order; and/or

4. equitable adjustments under fixed-price task orders or line items in a task order.

c) The following are the negotiated fixed profit percentage(s):

Base Year 1:

Base Year 2:

Base Year 3:

Base Year 4:

Base Year 5:

Option Year 1:

Option Year 2:

Option Year 3:

Option Year 4:

Option Year 5:

Six-Month Option to Extend (see FAR 52.217-8):

B.10 MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT CANCELLATION CEILING (BASE PERIOD)

In accordance with FAR 17.106-1(c) (Cancellation procedures) and FAR 52.217-2 (Cancellation Under Multi-Year Contracts), the cancellation ceiling is $100,000.00.

The cancellation charge will cover only costs:

a) incurred by the Contractor and/or subcontractor;

b) reasonably necessary for performance of the contract;

c) that would have been equitably amortized over the entire multi-year contract period but, because of the cancellation, are not so amortized; and

d) representing a reasonable profit or fee on the costs.

SECTION C – DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATIONS/PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT FOR MULTI MISSION AVIATION SUPPORT SERVICES

C.1.0 BACKGOUND

The Bureau of Medical Services’ (MED) Directorate of Operational Medicine (MED/DMD/OM) is responsible for executing the U.S. Department of State’s (“DOS” or the “Department”) Operational Medicine Program. The essential functions of the Operational Medicine Program are planning, developing, resourcing, and executing medical contingency plans to enhance the security of chief-of-mission personnel engaged in high-risk environments worldwide, providing senior decision-makers with flexible response options to identify and mitigate emerging medical risks and employing professionals trained, experienced, and equipped to operate in high-risk environments. Successful execution of the Operational Medicine Program is crucial to addressing authoritative lessons learned from Accountability Review Boards, Congressional Reports, and Agency Best Practices identified in the aftermath of tragedies like the Attack on the Benghazi Compound, the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and the attacks on U.S. facilities in Beirut, Lebanon — each of which recognized necessary improvements to the Department’s medical response or organic aviation capability to deliver crisis responders. Successful execution of the Operational Medicine Program also helps fulfill MED’s responsibilities under the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide medical care to eligible Chief of Mission (“COM”) personnel, as well as MED’s responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and its implementing regulations to mitigate workplace health risks for COM personnel. Finally, the U.S. Government’s (“USG”) lessons learned from the 2002-2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (“SARS”) and the 2014-2015 outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (“EVD”) made it clear that effective response to outbreaks requires aviation capabilities able to mitigate the risk of exposure to highly-pathogenic infectious diseases (“HPID”) — whether to move an infected patient, a pallet of supplies into an impacted region, and/or personnel who may or may not have been exposed to an HPID. The work contemplated by this Performance Work Statement (“PWS”) for Multi-Mission Aviation Support Services (“MMASS”) is a crucial, embedded component of the Operational Medicine Program and the Operational Medicine Program’s broad and rapidly changing mission set requires a contractor capable of adapting to the evolving nature of aviation mission(s), react to changing conditions quickly, and execute mission changes with minimal impact to steady state operations.

1.1 GENERAL ACQUISITION EXPECTATIONS.

One of the most important responsibilities of the Department is to rapidly respond to critical threats to our diplomatic missions and personnel overseas, including affliction of eligible personnel, as defined under a variety of existing or future authorities, with unique and highly pathogenic infectious diseases. DOS responses must be appropriate and, of equal importance, timely. Therefore, the Department must equip itself with the tools and capabilities that best enable its response to be safe, accurate, and immediate. DOS must have a scalable aviation capability that can: (1) perform medical evacuation (with or without biocontainment capability); (2) deploy crisis response personnel; (3) move senior interlocutors to and from sensitive diplomatic engagements; (4) transport mission critical supplies and medical material; (5) deploy and/or extract eligible persons and sensitive cargo from posts in crisis, high-threat posts, or other high-threat environments; (6) provide aviation support to security and protection operations; and (7) leverage biocontainment expertise to assist the Department with the maintenance and upkeep of the Department’s biocontainment aero-medical evacuation equipment.

The Department requires a multi-mission aviation support services contract (MMASS) with the capability to evacuate critically ill patients, including those infected with highly pathogenic infectious diseases (HPIDs), from places where traditional air ambulances cannot or will not go. These services are required on an unscheduled and often emergency basis demanding a high degree of reliability and mission assurance. From the Department’s experience with SARS and the Ebola Virus Disease, many aviation support providers are unwilling to provide any aviation services into countries with active HPID outbreaks and lack the capability to transport such individuals, hence it is critical that the MMASS contractor possess biocontainment capability. Successfully executing such missions entails coordinating several related services and requirements.

In order to maximize the flexibility and cost efficiency of this standing capability, the Government requires that a single Contractor provide all services using a multi-mission capable aircraft and crew, using an airframe with sufficient range and seating capacity to efficiently deploy personnel and retrieve personnel and casualties from anywhere in the world, with a modular configuration that can quickly transition between passenger transport, cargo transport, medical evacuation, and biocontainment mission requirements. Such a capability is a tool that optimizes DOS’s ability to fulfill its responsibilities to deployed personnel, American citizens, and eligible persons around the world. While support to urgent medical, biocontainment, security, and personnel recovery/transport missions in high-threat or high-risk environments represent the priority mission-set for multi-mission aviation support services, current guidance from the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration requires the Department to maximize the value to the U.S. taxpayer for Government Aircraft, including those procured as Commercial Aviation Services (“CAS”). Hence, at times when MMASS services are not urgently required to support biocontainment, medical, security, personnel transport/recovery missions, the Department anticipates that MMASS resources may be utilized to support a broad array of additional missions using MMASS contract aviation assets.

In sum, the Department has made a reasonable determination to procure multi-mission aviation support services supporting the breath of Operational Medicine Program aviation activities through a total package approach and seeks a single contractor provide services using a multi-mission capable aircraft and crew. Additionally, the MMASS contractor must be able to provide all of the required services using a platform that can mitigate risks from HPIDs to the aircraft and crew, ensuring that whatever aviation service is required – such service can be safely executed in regions impacted by HPIDs. The Department has further concluded that awarding a single contract for these services will result in economies of scale and consolidated administrative costs; the use of multiple vendors, each operating under the stringent readiness requirements required under this contract, will result in significant and unnecessary fixed overhead costs without a significant return on investment for the American tax payer. Award to a single vendor capable of supporting all requirements using a multi-mission platform allows the Department to abate duplicative managerial time, cost, and contract administrative oversight. Thus, the Department is pursuing this requirement under a total package approach and requires the services of an experienced aviation services contractor to integrate the full breadth of aviation support services for ongoing security, secure transport, and medical contingency responses.

1.2 PURPOSE.

DOS has a requirement for an aviation capability that is rapidly deployable, allowing the Department to transport personnel, and retrieve eligible persons and critically ill patients safely, swiftly, and securely to and from locations anywhere in the world in the most expeditious manner. DOS seeks to acquire the services of an air transportation company with access to a wide variety of airplanes of varying sizes and capabilities that will provide movement anywhere in the world on short notice, tailored in size and configuration to the specific facts and circumstances of a particular mission.

2.0 SCOPE

2.1 GENERAL SCOPE.

The objective of this contract is to obtain on-call aircraft services for use by DOS to: (1) perform medical evacuation (with or without biocontainment capability); (2) deploy crisis response personnel; (3) move senior interlocutors to and from sensitive diplomatic engagements; (4) transport mission critical supplies and medical material; (5) deploy and/or extract eligible persons and sensitive cargo from posts in crisis, high-threat posts, or other high-threat environments; (6) provide aviation support to security and protection operations; (7) leverage biocontainment expertise to assist the Department with the maintenance and upkeep of the Department’s biocontainment aero-medical evacuation equipment; and (8) aviation support missions, utilizing existing capabilities and processes within the MMASS contract, that derive benefit to the U.S Department of State and the USG.

2.2 SPECIFIC AVIATION CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS.

2.2.1 Dedicated Multi-Mission Aircraft Capability, Configuration, and Air Crew - CONUS

The Contractor shall provide one dedicated, fully mission capable, aircraft for the sole use of DOS (Dedicated Aircraft), available continuously through the period of performance, with a maximum six-hour (6-hour) response time (Mission Number assignment to wheels-up) to depart from their base of operations (“Contractor Base”) for a particular service call. The dedicated aircraft shall be multi-mission aircraft, with operating specifications that allow for cargo, passenger, and air ambulance operations on a single airframe. The selected aircraft shall have a minimum range of 3,400 nautical miles (with retained IFR fuel reserves); a capacity to transport not less than 2 litter patients; a combination of 1 litter patient with 12 seated passengers; a passenger-only capacity of 18 seated passengers; a cargo capacity of not less than 3,500 pounds; a cargo door of sufficient size to accept a pallet or other bulk cargo 48” wide and 48” tall; in-flight satellite communications of a design and capability to support not less than 4 Mbps download, 1 Mbps upload, and 500ms latency during unobstructed weather at flight levels above 10,000 feet above sea level, between 60 degrees north and south latitude; and the ability to maintain biocontainment during single patient medical evacuation safely using a device that has received Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for flight from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). All flight operations shall be conducted in compliance with 14 CFR Part 135, unless otherwise directed by the Government at the time of service call, including air crew training standards. The Dedicated Aircraft shall have a suitable lavatory installed in the aircraft. Aircrew will consist of not less than three pilots and two medical crew members. One medical crew member shall be either a Registered Professional Nurse or Licensed Physician. The flight crew personnel may transport specimens and laboratory samples containing hazardous or infectious materials enclosed in appropriate transport containers. Therefore, all flight crew personnel must have the required vaccinations and prophylaxis as required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other cognizant international health authorities. Contractor shall be fully mobilized within 24 hours of Task Order Award.

2.2.2 Dedicated Multi-Mission Aircraft Capability, Configuration, and Air Crew – OCONUS Aviation support services contemplated under this contract include deployment of crisis response or key interlocutor personnel and mission critical cargo, extraction of eligible personnel, medical evacuation, controlled movement of mission personnel into and from high threat or highly austere posts, and ongoing aviation services to support security and medical contingency operations.

The Contractor shall provide one dedicated, fully mission capable, aircraft for the sole use by the DOS, available continuously through the period of performance, with a maximum six-hour response time (Mission Number assignment to wheels-up) to depart from an overseas base of operations (“Overseas Contractor Base”) located in a mutually agreed upon location outside the continental United States. Regionally based aircraft shall be multi-mission aircraft, with operating specifications that allow for cargo, passenger, and air ambulance operations on a single airframe.. The selected aircraft shall have a minimum range of 3,400 nautical miles (with retained IFR fuel reserves); a capacity to transport not less than 2 litter patients; a combination of 1 litter patient with 12 seated passengers; a passenger-only capacity of 18 seated passengers; a cargo capacity of not less than 3,500 pounds; a cargo door of sufficient size to accept a pallet or other bulk cargo 48” wide and 48” tall; in-flight satellite communications of a design and capability to support not less than 4 Mbps download, 1 Mbps upload, and 500ms latency during unobstructed weather at flight levels above 10,000 feet above sea level, between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south latitude; and the ability to maintain biocontainment during single patient medical evacuation safely using a device that has received Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for flight from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Dedicated Aircraft shall have a suitable lavatory installed in the aircraft. The aircrew shall consist of not less than four pilots (two pilots in command “PIC” and two pilots second in command “SIC); two medical crew members (One medical crew member shall be either a Registered Professional Nurse or Licensed Physician); and one qualified airframe and powerplant mechanic qualified to maintain the make and model of the selected airframe. The flight crew personnel may transport specimens and laboratory samples containing hazardous or infectious materials enclosed in appropriate transport containers. Therefore, all flight crew personnel must have the required vaccinations and prophylaxis as required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other cognizant international health authorities. Contractor shall be fully mobilized within 14 days of Task Order Award.

2.2.3 Biocontainment Capability – Equipment, Supplies, Personnel, and Training The Contractor shall develop a biocontainment capability that: (1) creates a negative pressure environment throughout the flight; (2) contains visual and auditory pressure variation warning systems, capable of containing an airborne viral pathogen; (3) requires vented air from the unit be HEPA filtered, containing 99% of 0.3 micron particles, and 99.99% of 1.0 micron particles; (4) allows patients to lie, sit, stand, and use a toilet, and allows care providers full access to the patient to provide the full spectrum of life support procedures, while wearing protective equipment; and (5) is approved under an FAA STC. Substitution of FAA Form 337 will not be accepted in lieu of an approved Supplemental Type Certification.

The Contractor shall store and maintain equipment, components, and supplies associated with the Government’s biocontainment transport capability, including, all components and supplies for the Aeromedical Biocontainment Systems (ABCS), the Containerized Biocontainment Systems (CBCS), the Portable Biocontainment Care Modules (PBCM), and deployable resupply caches of emergency equipment and supplies necessary for crisis response or response to an outbreak or intentional release of a HPID pathogen. The Contractor shall store the biocontainment unit components at temperatures between 50℉ and 90℉. All components shall be stored in accordance with standards published in the biocontainment unit Operator’s Manual.

The Contractor shall have the capability to install, deploy, decontaminate, and remove the biocontainment unit. All installations of the system shall be in accordance with the biocontainment unit’s Operator’s Manual and aircraft operating parameters.

The Contractor shall ensure all contractor support personnel are adequately trained, current, possess the requisite experience and/or certification, and are otherwise fully qualified to provide the support required prior to being assigned a mission. Specifics shall be determined at the time of the service call.

The Contractor shall support and fully participate in exercises and other activities directed by the Contracting Officer’s Representative, invoiced using existing CLIN structures or through the Special Aviation Support Request (SASR) process in a manner similar to that used in an actual mission.

2.2.4 Special Aviation Services Requests (SASR)

As directed, the Government requires aviation support to austere locations that may require intermediate transportation of personnel using helicopter or short take-off and landing aircraft, the use of large cargo aircraft for movement of the Containerized Biocontainment System or large mission critical equipment, supplementary multi-mission aircraft to provide a surge capacity, or specialized aircraft (manned or unmanned) to support the unique medical or security requirements of a particular mission. At the time of a specific mission, the vendor shall develop a Firm Fixed Price to accomplish the Government’s objectives, and present their technical approach and price for approval by the Government in accordance with Section G of this RFP. Subcontractors employed in satisfaction of standing requirements or SASR requests will be held to the same performance metrics as the prime contractor unless agreed to in writing and in advance by the COR. The Subcontractor will need to meet regulatory requirements of 14 CFR Part 135, Part 121, Part 125, and/or 14 CFR Part 91, as appropriate for the mission.

2.3 MISSION SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS

2.3.1 Mission Assurance and Response Posture

The MMASS requirements demand a high degree of control and reliability in order to perform within the tightly synchronized operational construct of medical evacuation with or without biocontainment or time-critical crisis response. The Government shall establish performance metrics, articulated in the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan, tracked for each mission, and monitor the Contractor’s performance through the life of the contract.

The Government shall be notified immediately if mission launch shall be delayed beyond the 6-hour performance parameter, and the Contractor shall submit to the Government a written explanation for the delay, and plan to prevent recurrence of the delay in future movements. In the event that a Dedicated Aircraft is unexpectedly unavailable for the Government’s use for any reason, the Contractor shall make all reasonable efforts to provide a replacement aircraft that is suitable for specific mission parameters.

Missions that exceed the allowable crew duty day under 14 CFR Part 135 shall include a crew duty break of no more than 14 hours, unless other factors required by Contractor mission needs and approved by the Government in advance indicate otherwise. The serial number of the contracted aircraft may change from time to time at the discretion of the Contractor, but one CONUS-based and one OCONUS-based aircraft meeting contract requirements shall always be available (fully-mission capable) unless the Government is notified and approves in advance as provided for in this contract.

The Contractor shall establish weekly maintenance status and forecast report, and notify the COR at least fourteen (14) days prior to Dedicated Aircraft “stand down” for scheduled maintenance checks, and shall designate in advance the tail number of the replacement aircraft. The contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer’s Representative within one (1) hour should the aircraft “stand down” for any unscheduled maintenance, and shall designate by tail number a suitable replacement aircraft if maintenance is expected to exceed 8 hours in duration.

2.3.2 Contractor Aviation Program Certification

The Contractor shall be authorized by the FAA to transport dangerous goods. Some types of infectious substances that the carrier may transport shall be classified as “select agents”. To transport select agents, the carrier must have a security plan compliant with 49 CFR 172.800 and 802.

The Contractor shall hold and maintain a special permit issued under 49 CFR by the U.S. Department of Transportation authorizing the transportation of Division 1 explosives.

The Contractor shall have air ambulance approval in their FAA Operations Specifications, and shall be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) at the Fixed Wing Emergency Critical Care level or the National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications (NAAMTA) at the Fixed Wing Critical Care level.

The Contractor shall maintain ongoing and active certification by the U.S. Department of Defense Commercial Airlift Review Board.

2.3.3 Aircraft Re-configuration.

The Contractor shall, at the request of the Government and based on specific mission requirements, reconfigure the interior of the designated aircraft, within the limits set forth in the aircraft’s operating specification, operator’s manual, and FAA regulation.

2.3.4 Aircraft Biocontainment - Set-up, Deployment, Decontamination, and Disposal of Hazardous Waste Management

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, facilities, and services that are required to deliver biocontainment units, provide for their safe storage, complete their installation and accomplish…