QA 3-20-2024.pdf
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- 6973GH-24-R-00068
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This document contains Questions & Answers related to a federal contract opportunity for a Dome Visual System to support flight simulators for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI). The key details include:
The FAA has a requirement for a Dome Visual System to be configured, delivered, installed, set up, tested, and supported at their Oklahoma City location. This solicitation is open for full and open competition, and all responding companies must be registered in SAM.gov with no active exclusions. Relevant technical details are provided, such as design eyepoint coordinates, forklift capacity, brightness and resolution requirements, and FAA certification levels. The projected award date is unknown, but the estimated completion date is 90 days from the award. The FAA has declined to extend the 90-day project completion timeframe. Proposals are due by March 25, 2024 and should be submitted to Nia Glover at nia.glover@faa.gov.
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| Dome Visual System - SOW revised 28 March 2024.docx | DOCX document | |
| 6973GH-24-R-00068 Amendment 0001.pdf | ||
| 6973GH-24-R-00068.pdf | ||
| Dome Visual System - SOW 2024.01.30.pdf | ||
| Dome Visual System - Past Experience Information 2024.2.23.docx | DOCX document | |
| Dome Visual System - Past Performance Survey 2024.2.23.docx | DOCX document |
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Questions & Answers 6973GH-24-R-00066
1. Question: What is the Design Eye Point (DEP) coordinates (X, Y, Z) of the Advanced Rotorcraft Simulator?
Answer: The design eyepoint is from the pilot position on the right side of the helicopter.
The physical location for the pilot eyepoint is 12.5” from the right side, 66” from the nose, and 60” up from the elevated floor.
2. Question: Are forklifts with 3000-5000 lbs. capacity available on-site in shipping and receiving to manage the unloading of large crates or pallets from tractor-trailer shipment companies?
Answer: We can coordinate the use of a forklift. But there might be a problem with items weighing more than 2000 lbs. Our freight elevator will not support the heavier weights. We suggest using more pallets keeping the individual weights below 2000 lbs.
3. Question: 67 deg vertical. How is this split up and down from the design eyepoint. I.e. 47 degree looking down and 20 degree looking up (see image below).
Answer: +37/-30
2) Question: What is the pilot/copilot eyepoint height above the raised floor?
Answer: 60”
3) Question: The size of the dome and the separation between the pilot and copilot determine parallax. Too much parallax results in ineffective training. Is there a parallax requirement or maximum tolerable parallax?
Answer: There is not a parallax requirement. However, if the proposed dome solution addresses parallax issues, the not-to-exceed difference between the pilot and co-pilot is preferred to be 10 degrees.
4. Question: Most of the time the brightness requirement is in ft lambert, your requirement is 80 lumens/ft squared. Is this identical to 8 ft lamberts? Can this be tested with standard light meter?
Answer: The brightness is measured at the screen by light meter so as to take into account screen gain
5. Question: Is there a resolution requirement? Projectors are specified as 4k and 225x67 degree FOV, but resolution can depend on distortion correction and aspect/throw ratio of projectors Is there an arcmin/pixel requirement?
Answer: There is not an arcmin/pixel requirement. A value of 0.6 arcmin/pixel is preferred.
6. Question: Does the system need to meet a certain FAA requirement for Flight Simulator Training Device, if so what level does the visual system need to meet?
Answer: The system to be utilized in the dome is an FAA research simulator and as such the dome visual is not required to meet FAA Flight Simulator Training Device standards
7. Question: A detailed CAD model would greatly help us determine how the projection system is designed and guarantee that there are no shadows on the dome screen surface.
Answer: The drawing, with measurements (see diagram at the end of this email chain for reference), included in the SOW should be enough to allow identification of shadow borders created by cockpit extremities. It is expected any fine-tuning of shadow masks will be performed during delivery.
8. Question: If it has already been determined that MVR Simulation software is used, it might be best for the FAA to acquire hardware from a vendor qualified by the software provider.
Is the FAA willing to accept an offer for the Projection Display System (PDS)? This would include all but the hardware specified in 2.2.4, 2.2.5 and 2.2.6.
Answer: As it is stated in the SOW, the hardware is part of the procurement. The MVR Simulation software has a recommended hardware level which is basically a high-end gaming level system. The MVRSimulation software runs one view per output channel. The job of the dome provider to combine the views into one seamless view. The MVR Simulation software doesn’t “communicate” with the dome software.
9. Question: Page 2 of the RFP lists Delivery: 02/29/2024. This date is past. What is the estimated delivery based on your projected award schedule?
Answer: This date is for FAA planning purposes only. Please ignore. The Schedule is listed in the Statement of Work.
10. Question: What is the projected award date for this solicitation if the FAA receives compliant proposals by March 25, 2024?
Answer: The current projected award date is unknown.
11. Question: Para 2.4 of the SOW states, “Estimated Completion Date: 90 days from award date”. Is this estimate correct? Will the FAA consider extending this project completion time past 90 days? This would allow for adequate supply channel response with hardware manufacturers and computer board suppliers.
Answer: The FAA has declined to extend the current project completion date.
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