Sources Sought 3_Feb_2025.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT

For

Landing Gear Engineering Services

Request Number: FA8203-25-R-ATLAS

NAICS: 541330

Classification Code: R – Professional, administrative, and management support services

NOTICE: This is not a solicitation but rather a Sources Sought to determine potential sources for information and planning purposes only.

The purpose of this Sources Sought is to conduct market research to determine if additional qualified sources exist for landing gear engineering services to initiate an “open season” to add new contractors to the C-LGIP Basic Contract in support of 417 SCMS/GUEA. The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code is 541330, which has a corresponding size standard of $25.5 million. The Government is interested in all sources and all small businesses to include 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, HUB-Zone, and Woman- Owned small business concerns. The Government requests that interested parties respond to this notice and identify your small business status in relation to the aforementioned NAICS code, if applicable. Additionally, please provide any anticipated teaming arrangements, along with a description of similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers within the past three years. Any responses involving teaming arrangements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime contractor and the work that will be accomplished by the teaming partners. The Government will use this information for acquisition planning purposes.

The AFMC AFSC OL:H/PZAAB Contracting Office, Hill AFB, UT is conducting market research to identify potential candidate firms for the following requirement:

a. The Landing Gear Office, AFMC 417 SCMS/GUEA, has existing indefinite delivery -indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts to provide engineering services in support of USAF landing gear systems. The contract has three awardees, as well as an on-ramp clause to add additional offerors as needed. This market research is being conducted to determine if there are additional sources who would be both interested and qualified to participate in these landing gear engineering services. Landing Systems include: landing gear structures, rolling stock (wheels and brakes), antiskid systems, materials development/characterization, processes (e.g. Depot repair processes), business data (e.g. management of systems integration). It is noted that this requirement is not for the manufacture or repair of parts; it is for engineering services only.

b. The engineering services provided in the contract are to support specific objectives which are generally built around landing gear integrity, mission safety, improving system life cycle cost, operational capability and performance, sustainment including maintainability and support, and safety and environmental friendliness. These engineering services efforts are in the areas of new design, technical documentation, diminishing material and manufacturing sources, environmental improvement issues, reliability, productivity, efficiency, and cost savings. This particular requirement does not include repair work nor production runs.

c. The minimum mandatory personnel requirements and required experience for the subject landing gear engineering services IDIQ contract are outlined in the attached Tables 1 and 2.

d. The remaining ordering period on the IDIQ is 16 years, with a period of performance for each order placed not to exceed FY 2040.

Interested parties who feel they possess the necessary capabilities should respond by providing the Government the following information: a point of contact, address, telephone, email address, IUID, cage code, and/or tax ID number, as well as size category (large, small, small disadvantaged, etc), a brief summary of the companies capabilities, description of facilities, personnel, related landing gear engineering services experience, and an initial white paper (not to exceed 3 pages) describing the respondent’s capabilities to provide engineering services in support of USAF landing gear systems. If a respondent chooses to utilize the services of sub-tier vendors or subcontractors, those vendors or subcontractors must meet the criteria specified herein as well.

All information marked as proprietary information will be safeguarded to prevent disclosures to nongovernment personnel and entities.

This sources sought is to identify engineering services in support of USAF landing gear systems.

The AFMC AFSC OL:H/PZAAB Contracting Office, Hill AFB, UT is requesting all potential responders submit their responses to this sources sought.

Please send all correspondence to the following: Christina Witt via email at christina.witt.2@us.af.mil, and Jayson Skow via email at jayson.skow@us.af.mil

Table 1 – Minimum Mandatory Personnel (Core Staff).

To meet these minimum mandatory personnel requirements, the Contractor shall have on staff for this program a separate employee who meets the requirements of each category. The Contractor will be considered minimally qualified if they meet the requirements of each category with at least 80% of the stated experience levels and provide a plan to meet the stated experience within 2 years of on-boarding onto the contract.

Category Position Title Expertise Level Requirement 1 Program Manager Principal 7 years of experience managing cost, schedule, and performance of multiple successful, DOD contracts over 1 million dollars

2 Engineer - Mechanical Systems

Principal 10 years of landing gear specific experience

3 Engineer - Structural Principal 10 years of landing gear specific experience

4 Engineer or Technician - Instrumentation & Test

Senior 7 years of experience focused on instrumentation and test, including aircraft structural components

5 Engineer - PLM Senior 7 years of PLM development, integration and implementation of Teamcenter

6 Engineer - Computational Analysis

Senior 7 years of experience performing finite element analysis on aircraft structures, 5 years of experience using ANSYS Mechanical, 5 years of experience performing fatigue analysis, and 2 years of experience using Ncode

7 Engineer - Statistical Analysis or Reliability Engineering

Senior 7 years of statistical modeling experience

8 Engineer or Technician - Drafting and Modeling

Senior 7 years of drafting experience using 3D modeling software and 5 years using SolidWorks

Table 2 – Required Experience.

The required experience below can be fulfilled by Core Staff or by additional personnel.

Categories identified below can be met by personnel that fulfill other roles and requirements.

The Contractor will be considered minimally qualified if they meet the requirements of each category with at least 80% of the stated experience levels and provide a plan to meet the stated experience within 2 years of on-boarding onto the contract.

Category Experience Requirement 9 Materials & Processes An engineer or technician with 7 years of experience with landing gear materials and processes

10 MECSIP & ASIP An engineer with 7 years of experience with ASIP & MECSIP requirements

11 Reverse Engineering An engineer with experience managing multiple successful aerospace reverse engineering projects (requiring airworthiness approval)

12 Signal Processing An engineer or technician with 5 years of signal processing expertise

13 Contracting A program manager, logistician, or equivalent with 7 years working directly with Government DOD contracting

14 Logistics A program manager, logistician, or equivalent with 7 years of Air Force supply chain logistics experience