CTS II Market Survey Announcement_Final.pdf

CTS II Market Survey Announcement 12/2/2024

MARKET SURVEY ANNOUNCEMENT

Title: Controller Training Solution (CTS) II Announcement Type Market Survey Region Issuing Office Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Headquarters - Washington, DC Name / Organization Stephen Mostow / AAQ-310 Email stephen.mostow@faa.gov Name / Organization Stephen Shaffer / AAQ-310 Email stephen.c.shaffer@faa.gov NAICS Code 611430: Professional Development Training

Details

This announcement is a Market Survey / Request for Information for the purpose of soliciting statements of interest and capabilities from interested vendors. Responses to this announcement will be used for informational purposes only to support the development of an acquisition strategy for the contemplated Controller Training Solutions (CTS) II acquisition. The information will not be released except as required under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); proprietary information will be protected if appropriately marked. This is not a Screening Information Request or Request for Proposal.

This market survey is also being conducted to obtain the information necessary to determine whether adequate competition exists to set aside the competition among small businesses or a small business socioeconomic category. The NAICS code for this requirement is 611430:

Professional Development Training with a small business size standard of $15M.

Abstract

The FAA has an ongoing requirement for training to maintain a well-trained and fully staffed air traffic controller (ATC) workforce. This training is composed of classroom, laboratory/simulation, and refresher training components. This requirement includes contractor augmentation of FAA resources for developing, planning, and performing ATC training and training-related services. The FAA CTS II requirement is intended to fulfill five critical FAA needs:

1. Instructional and training services support at the FAA Academy (Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center) in Oklahoma City, OK, and more than 300 FAA facilities nationwide mailto:stephen.mostow@faa.gov mailto:stephen.c.shaffer@faa.gov

2. Nationwide availability of qualified ATC instructors

3. Workforce management of more than 2,400 contractor instructors and support staff

4. ATC training Curriculum maintenance and development

5. Developing or implementing innovations and enhancements to ATC training

CTS II will provide the FAA with a vehicle to obtain qualified instructors, training support, and training development services for variable durations at locations and times determined by the FAA. The goal for CTS II is to meet all known FAA training needs while retaining the flexibility to increase or decrease the service level as required by workforce and budget constraints.

Attachment A to this announcement is the draft Statement of Work (SOW) for the CTS II acquisition. The FAA requests responses from industry to include a Capability Statement (defined below):

Capability Statement

Respondents must provide a Capability Statement that addresses the following:

1. Describe your firm’s ability to provide specialized training resources nationwide, on short notice, and with varying service- durations.

2. Describe your firm’s ability to provide flexible classroom training and simulation support in an in-residence academic environment such as the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City

3. Describe your firm’s ability to develop and maintain Air Traffic Controller Training curricula.

4. Describe your firm’s approach to providing innovations and enhancements to air traffic controller training, including utilizing emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

5. Describe your firm’s understanding and experience with FAA Air Traffic Control training procedures and methods. The description must demonstrate your firm’s capability to perform work of similar size, scope, and complexity as the work indicated above and in Attachment A.

6. Performance Management: describe your firm’s process for managing a workforce of more than 2,400 instructors and support staff across more than 300 FAA facilities nationwide.

7. The FAA encourages teaming arrangements. Describe any potential use of subcontractors, Joint Venture arrangements, affiliated offerors, or an FAA-approved Mentor/Protégé arrangement to fulfill the FAA’s requirements.

8. Identify your company’s business size (i.e., Small or Large Business) relative to NAICS code 611430. For small businesses, also identify any socioeconomic status, as applicable. Please indicate whether you are interested in the CTS requirement as a prime offeror or subcontractor/team. member.

This Market Survey must not be construed as an obligation on the part of the FAA to acquire these items. No solicitation for these items exists at this time. If a solicitation is issued, it will be announced on SAM.gov. It is the firm’s responsibility to monitor the website for the solicitation’s release.

The FAA will not be liable for any costs associated with the preparation of responses to this Market Survey, nor reimburse or otherwise pay any costs incurred by any party responding to this announcement. Any costs associated with the Market Survey submissions will be solely at the interested party’s expense.

The FAA may request that one, some, all, or none of the respondents to the Market Survey/Request for Information provide additional information. No evaluation of vendors will occur based on this additional information, and vendor participation in any informational session is not a promise for future business with the FAA. Interested firms’ responses must be submitted by email no later than 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Responses to this Market Survey are limited to 15 pages and must be in writing, on company letterhead, and must include respondent's point of contact information, including name, telephone number, e-mail address, and mailing address. Any proprietary information submitted must be properly identified. Information from firm submissions may be used in future acquisition activities on a non-vendor-specific basis.

Questions and/or feedback on the Draft SOW (Attachment A) are encouraged, although not required. Such questions or feedback will be reviewed separately from the Capability Statements and may be used as the final requirement is developed. Questions/feedback can be submitted via Attachment B. The vendor community should not expect answers to any questions to be posted.

Submit responses to: Stephen Mostow and Stephen Shaffer, Contracting Officers.

Email: Stephen.Mostow@faa.gov and Stephen.C.Shaffer@faa.gov.

NOTES: The electronic submission should be in either Microsoft Word or Adobe portable document format (PDF). Please note that the FAA e-mail server restricts file size to 10MB per email message. Therefore, responses may have to be submitted in more than one e-mail in order to be received.