Market Survey Announcement.pdf

MARKET SURVEY ANNOUNCEMENT

FASTER & SML Support Services

1. Introduction/Purpose

In accordance with FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) Section 3.2.1.2.1, the FAA is conducting a Market Survey to assist in determining the competition/participation level from vendors with the resources and technical expertise necessary to support the potential requirement as described in Attachment A - Draft Statement of Work (SOW).

The FAA is seeking sources to accomplish tasks related to developing and evaluating technologies, conducting laboratory and field tests, performing analyses and simulations, and providing data to support FAA regulatory, certification, and NextGen activities. The contractor must furnish and make available all personnel, supplies, equipment, materials, and services necessary to assist the Structures and Materials Branch (ANG-E281) in accomplishing its mission.

The contractor must provide all the necessary services required to support the following active areas including, but not limited to:

- composites and advanced materials research;

- laboratory design, operations and test support;

- methods and numerical analysis and modeling;

- probabilistic and statistical modeling;

- maintenance and inspection research;

- general engineering;

- strategic planning;

- program support; and

- flight loads research.

2. Incumbent Contractor

DTFAWA11A-00046 Task Order 692M15-20-F-00180 Diakon Solutions

3. Request for Information

A SIR/Request for Proposal may be made under a separate announcement in the future. The FAA is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals. The FAA will not pay for any information received or costs incurred in preparing vendor responses to this market survey. Therefore, any cost associated with a market survey submission is solely at the interested vendor’s expense.

The acquisition strategy for the procurement has not been determined at this time; however, either an unrestricted competition, a set-aside, or other acquisition strategy will be chosen depending on the responses to this market survey. The purpose of this market survey is to solicit statements of interest and capabilities from large businesses, small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, women owned small business, HubZone small business, and 8(a) certified firms, capable of providing the supplies outlined in this document, in the timeframe stated in this document. The responses to this RFI will help determine the acquisition strategy and whether adequate competition exists to set-aside the competition.

4. Submittal Requirements for Market Survey

All interested parties are encouraged to respond to this Market Survey with a statement of interest by submitting a brief Capability Statement of no more than five (5) pages. This document should address respondent’s capability and experience in meeting the FAA’s requirement to successfully perform the same or similar tasks as those listed in the draft SOW. The Capability Statement must include:

• Experience with and knowledge of Tasks 2, 3, and 4 listed under Section 3.2 “Tasks” in the attached draft Statement of Work. The response must include the vendor’s years of experience in each task.

Respondent’s Market Survey response should confirm evidence of the respondent’s qualifications and capabilities to meet the requirements in the attached Draft SOW.

The total page limitation for the Capability Statement is five pages – font size 12, one-inch margins, single-spaced.

Participation in any market analysis activities is not a promise of future business with the

FAA.

Any confidential or proprietary information submitted in response to this announcement must be marked accordingly by the respondent. Respondent should mark all pages of the submission that contain sensitive information as "Source Selection Sensitive." Any restrictions imposed by respondent on the use or disclosure of the submission content must be clearly marked on the title pages and the individual pages, as necessary. Such information will not be disclosed outside of the acquisition team.

5. Delivery of Market Survey Submittals

Interested respondents must electronically submit all documents via email to Nicole.Saiauskie@faa.gov no later than 5:00 PM ET on May 1, 2024. Email responses to this Market Survey must include the subject line “FASTER/SML Support Response to Market Survey – [insert vendor name]”.

mailto:Nicole.Saiauskie@faa.gov

Questions regarding this Market Survey must be electronically submitted via email to Nicole.Saiauskie@faa.gov. Questions are to be received no later than 5:00 PM ET on April 24, 2024. Email questions must include the subject line “Question(s) for FASTER/ SML Support Market Survey – [insert vendor name]”.

Respondents are not to contact the Technical/Requiring/Program Office at any time regarding this Market Survey and requirement. Doing so could put respondent at risk to be eliminated from the competition.

6. Attachments

Attachment A – Draft SOW mailto:Nicole.Saiauskie@faa.gov.