FA558720Q0006 Weapons Range Services Award a Sole Source.pdf

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

48TH FIGHTER WING (USAFE)

For Official Use Only (FOUO)

SPECIAL NOTICE

FA558720Q0006

48th CONTRACTING SQUADRON

Issue Date: 20 March 2020

Response Due Date: 03 April 2020

NAICS Code: 488190 – Other support activities for air transportation.

Subject: Special Notice – Award a Sole Source.

GENERAL INFORMATION

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE:

The 48th Contracting Squadron, United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), Royal Air Force

Lakenheath intends to award a sole source, base year contract with four additional one (1) year options to QinetiQ Limited. This contract will allow for the use of a highly specialized weapons range and associated services that can handle the deployment of a wide variety of short range munitions at a United Kingdom (UK) based facility. This will allow for meeting mandatory

United States Air Force (USAF) F-15 aircrew training requirements. The range shall have the capability to provide ground to air communication support, air traffic controllers for airspace surveillance, primary and secondary air surveillance radar, meteorological support and the coordination of range vehicles/vessels to prevent or provide alert of incursions into the weapons danger area. The vendor shall provide adequate manpower to support weapons delivery/range specification planning to include safety and environmental assessments and project coordination and scheduling. The range shall provide a variety of targets as and when specified of the types listed on the Performance Work Statement (PWS), instrumentation and data analysis and a weapons safety trace area large enough for the safe deployment of a wide range of munitions used by the 48th Fighter Wing. The range shall also be within a short enough flight distance from

RAF Lakenheath to allow aircraft to visit and return to base the same day.

Ministry of Defence (MOD) Aberporth is the only range in the UK that can accommodate a full complement of short range precision guided munitions. Under a Long Term Partnership

Agreement, the UK has mandated that the management of Aberporth range be contracted to

QinetiQ Ltd until 2028. The justification for restricting competition will be in accordance with the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition

Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1 “Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services

Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.” Since QinetiQ manages the only range fulfilling the

Governments requirements, it is the only entity with whom a contract can be executed.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations and no solicitation will be issued from this notice; Interested contractors may identify their capability to provide the services prescribed within this notice and the attached Performance Work Statement (PWS) on or before the response due date, and should provide sufficient data for the Government to determine them as a comparable alternative to the intended source. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Expressions of interest should be sent via email to the following:

POC:

Primary POC: Yvonne Cooke, Contract Specialist

Phone: 00 44 (0) 1638 52 2384

Email: yvonne.cooke.gb@us.af.mil

Secondary POC: Ms. Maria Calimlim, Contracting Officer

Phone: 00 44 (0) 1638 52 2165

Email: maria.calimlim@us.af.mil