Statement of Work.pdf

Statement of Work

(SOW)

Automatic Tire Changer at

Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall “Rev. 1, 7 Jan 2025”

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Mission: The 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron Vehicle Management Flight is responsible for the safe and serviceable operation of government owned vehicles, supporting over 500 vehicles across three wings.

1.2 Background: The Vehicle Management flight currently has a manual tire changer that is used in support of over 1500 tire changing operations per year, requiring time and effort for each change, taking technicians away from other duties.

1.3 Scope: We require an automatic tire changing machine to facilitate faster tire changes and reduce down time for the RAF Mildenhall vehicle fleet.

2.0 General Requirements

2.1 Business Relations: The Contractor shall successfully integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute this requirement. The Contractor shall manage the timeliness, completeness, and quality of problem identification. The Contractor shall promptly identify issues to the Government and take timely corrective action. The Contractor shall seek to ensure mission partner satisfaction and professional and ethical behavior of all contractor personnel.

2.2 Contract Management & Administration

2.2.1 Contract Management: The Contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of resources assigned to the requirement. The Contractor must maintain continuity between the mission partner and the contractor’s corporate offices.

2.2.2 Contract Administration: The Contractor shall establish processes and assign appropriate resources to effectively administer the contract. The Contractor shall respond to the Governments requests for contractual actions in a timely fashion. The Contractor shall have a single point of contact between the Government and contractor personnel assigned to support the contract. The Contractor shall assign resources in order to maintain proper and accurate records related to this contract.

2.3 Subcontract Management: If applicable, the Contractor shall be responsible for any subcontractor and any subcontractor management necessary to integrated work executed under this contract.

2.4 Hours of Work: Work days are from Monday through Friday excluding US federal holidays and UK bank holidays.

Work hours are from 0800 to 1700 local UK time.

3.0 Product Specifications & Installation Requirements

3.1 The contractor must provide all materials, transportation and personnel for delivery and installation of an automatic tire changer.

3.2 Contractor must install the automatic tire changer machine and provide user training at Building 610, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom.

3.3 The vendor must be able to provide after sales support including parts, repair, and maintenance in the UK along with a favorable warranty not less than one year.

3.4 Automatic tire changer must meet the salient characteristics outlined below:

1. The machine must be fully automatic with minimal technician involvement throughout tire changing operation.

2. The machine must be capable of changing tires with a maximum outer diameter of up to 50 inches.

3. The machine must be capable of changing tires on wheels of up to 15 inches in width, and rim diameters between 12-30 inches

4. The machine must be powered by a 220V standard UK plug socket power supply.

5. The machine must be able to start and break beads.

6. The machine must have English user instructions/manuals/controls.

4.0 Special Requirements

4.1 Security & Safety

4.1.1 Operational Security (OPSEC): If any installation is required to take place in a Government facility, the Contractor shall be familiar with the organizational critical information and indicators list (CIIL) and OPSEC policy of any installation they require access to. The required CIIL can be provided by the Contracting Officer.

4.1.2 Safety: The Contractor and any of its subcontractors (if applicable) shall promptly report pertinent facts regarding mishaps involving Government property damage or injury to Government/Contractor personnel that takes place on an installation. The Contractor shall notify the cognizant Contracting Officer within 24 hours of all mishaps or incidents. The Contracting Officer will in-turn notify the Safety Office. The Contractor shall cooperate in any resulting safety investigation.

4.2 Contractor Access to Installations: Access to DoD installations is limited to personnel with a valid installation access pass. Failure to submit required information to obtain required documentation will result in the exclusion of such employees from the installation until such documentation is obtained. Contractor employees may be subject to personal and vehicle searched when entering or leaving a DoD installation. If installation access is required, the Government will provide the Contractor with the required information and documents for installation access passes upon award. Subsequently, the Contractor shall provide a list of all employees along working under this contract, along with the required documentation upon receipt of contract award, and no later than 30 days prior to the projected need for any new installation access pass requirements. The Contractor is responsible for maintaining an adequate number of personnel with active installation access passes, and adhering to the timeframes stated in this section. The cognizant mission partner is responsible for the coordination of installation access passes. Upon termination of employment, termination or cancellation of the contract, or expiration of the contract the Contractor is responsible for collecting employee installation access passes and turning them in to the CO, or the cognizant mission partner in a timely fashion.

4.3 Shipping Instructions

4.3.1 For vendors located inside the United Kingdom.

4.3.1.1 Shipment shall be FOB Destination.

4.3.1.2 All shipping and transit costs must be included as part of the total purchase price submitted to the Government (vendor may either include the shipping in the costs of the items, or outline it in a separate line item).

4.3.1.3 The Government will provide the shipping address as part of the solicitation document. Additionally, the Government will provide the vendor with the point of contact at the physical destination delivery address.

4.3.2 For vendors located outside of the United Kingdom.

4.3.2.1 Option One: United States Postal Service.

4.3.2.1.1 Shipping shall be FOB Destination.

4.3.2.1.2 All shipping and transit costs must be included as part of the total purchase price submitted to the Government (vendor may either included the shipping in the costs of the items, or outline it in a separate line item).

4.3.2.1.3 Weight of individual shipments must not exceed 70lbs.

4.3.2.1.4 Dimensions of individual shipments must not exceed 119 inches in length, and/or 72 inches in width or height.

4.3.2.1.5 Hazardous material is not submitted.

4.3.2.1.6 The Government will provide the APO shipping address as part of the solicitation.

4.3.2.2 Option Two: Commercial small parcel carrier.

4.3.2.2.1 Shipping shall be FOB Destination.

4.3.2.2.2 All shipping and transit costs must be included as part of the total purchase price submitted to the Government (vendor may either included the shipping in the costs of the items, or outline it in a separate line item).

4.3.2.2.3 Weight of individual shipments must not exceed 300lbs.

4.3.2.2.4 Dimensions of individual shipments must not exceed 119 inches in length, and/or 72 inches in width or height.

4.3.2.2.5 The Contractor is responsible for arranging and performing all shipping actions from origin to final destination.

4.3.2.2.6 The Government will provide the shipping address as part of the solicitation document. Additionally, the Government will provide the vendor with the point of contact at the physical destination delivery address.

4.3.2.3 Option Three: Consolidated Shipping Point.

4.3.2.3.1 Shipping shall be FOB Destination.

4.3.2.3.2 All shipping and transit costs must be included as part of the total purchase price submitted to the Government (vendor may either included the shipping in the costs of the items, or outline it in a separate line item).

4.3.2.3.3 Weight of individual shipments must exceed 300lbs.

4.3.2.3.4 Dimensions of individual shipments must exceed 72 inches of any one dimensions (length, width, height).

4.3.2.3.5 Hazardous material may be shipped via this method.

4.3.2.3.6 The Contractor must complete a DD Form 1139 “XXX” to determine if the cargo can be shipped via MILAIR.

4.3.2.3.7 The Contractor shall ensure all cargo is marked “UNITED

STATES AIR FORCE” in order to ensure shipments clear customs.

4.3.2.3.8 100 ARW logistics points of contact are provided for in 4.3.3.

4.3.3 Contact Information; 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron (100 LRS)

4.3.3.1 USAFE/A4 Customs; USAFEUK.A4.CUSTOMS@us.af.mil

4.3.3.2 100 LRS/LGRD Customs; 100LRS.LGRD.Customs@us.af.mil

4.3.3.3 100 LRS/Inbound Cargo: 100lrs.lgrdcr@us.af.mil

4.3.3.4 100 LRS/Inbound Cargo: Commercial phone number; +44 01638 543450.

4.4 Government Furnished Material: No government furnish material will be provided as part of this requirement.

5.0 Appendix: Related Documents

mailto:USAFEUK.A4.CUSTOMS@us.af.mil mailto:100LRS.LGRD.Customs@us.af.mil mailto:100lrs.lgrdcr@us.af.mil