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This federal solicitation seeks design services for upgrades to the Helicopter Drive System Test Facility. The scope of work includes designing, fabricating, procuring, and installing new and upgraded components to safely and efficiently operate a helicopter drive system as a fully integrated test facility. This procurement focuses on Phase 1, which is to design a system that can be fabricated, installed, and commissioned. The test facility is located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River and tests integrated drive systems for multiple helicopter platforms using aircraft turbine engines to simulate operational loads. Offerors are required to perform 90% of the work at their contractor site and 10% at the Government site at the Propulsion Systems Evaluation Facility. The soliciting agency is the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center.