STATEMENT_OF_WORK_for_Parachute_Packer_Support_USAPT_FY18_Changed.docx

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

PARACHUTE PACKER SUPPORT

FOR US ARMY PARACHUTE TEAM

I. SCOPE: The Contractor shall provide Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certified Rigger support for the United States Army Parachute Team’s (USAPT) Tandem and Competition Teams. The FAA specifically states: “The main parachute must be packed by a FAA certificate holding parachute rigger or by the person jumping it and is also required to be packed within 120 days of its use. FAA certified riggers may also supervise others in the inspection and packing of parachutes.”

The contractor, as directed by the Contract Officer or his/her representative, shall provide this support to the 8 Way, 4 Way, VFS and Tandem Teams as determined necessary by the US Army Parachute Team Commander or his designated representative. Work will be performed at Laurinburg, NC, Homestead ARB, FL, All American Bowl (site TBD), World Meet/Cup Competition (International site TBD), Nationals (Site TBD) and 10/11 offsite tandem Camps (Nashville TN, Fort Knox KY, Chicago IL, Dallas TX, Perris Valley CA, Fort Lee VA, Fort Campbell KY, Fort Jackson SC, Fort Benning GA, and Fort Hood TX). POP is 1 June 2018 through 31 May 2019.

II. PURPOSE: The purpose of this contract is to provide timely and cost effective certified rigger (parachute packing) support for the Tandem and Competition Teams in performing their mission for the Department of the Army, the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs (OCPA) and recruiting, accessions and marketing mission. Packing services are often needed within 24-hours or less and may be cancelled within the same time frame due to adverse weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances. Therefore, the contractor must have considerable flexibility. Specialized provisions apply in that the certified riggers/packers utilized by the contractor must be FAA certified. The contractor and contractor personnel must be thoroughly familiar with, and adhere to, quality standards/guidelines set forth in the FAA as well as the FAR.

III. PERSONNEL: The mission of the Tandem and Competition Teams mandates that the contractor have riggers/packers, with a FAA certified rigger supervisor. These riggers/packers must have technical rigger knowledge/expertise in order to insure that parachutes are packed safely and in a timely manner to meet the requirements/demands of the Teams. The work history of each contract employee shall contain experience directly related to the tasks and functions to be assigned. The USAPT commander or his designated representative reserves the right, upon request to the Contractor, to determine if a given work history contains necessary and sufficiently detailed/related experience to reasonably insure the ability for effective and efficient performance.

IV. TASK REQUIREMENTS: Riggers will pack state-of-the-art ram-air parachutes into free fall and tandem parachute container systems to be used as main parachutes and deployed by members of the United States Army Parachute Team. Parachutes must be packed to open reliably with minimal heading changes on opening, and softly at speeds up to 125 miles per hour, so as to avoid injury from a hard opening. The parachute equipment brands will be primarily Performance Design main parachutes which are to be packed into the Javelin and Vector container systems and Sigma parachutes in Sigma containers. According to FAA requirements, packers must ensure that all collapsible pilot chutes are properly packed so as to avoid a pilot chute in tow. The main parachute must be packed by, or packing must be supervised by, a FAA certificate- holding parachute rigger or by the person jumping it. Also, the main parachute is required to be packed within 120 days of its use.

Tandem Packs 1275 each (maximum) 15 minutes per pack Standard Packs 11,606 each (maximum) 5 minutes per pack

Contractor must be capable of packing 15 standard systems in a 25 minute period.

Duty day will be based on the training requirement (schedule) of the individual team the pack jobs are being provided to. Contractor will coordinate with the drop zone safety officer for a specified work day.

V. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY (GFP): The Government shall furnish all property for rigger/packer support to include, but not limited to, parachutes, containers and other related items.

VI. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Period of performance for this contract is 1 June 2018 through 31 May 2019.

VII. CONTRACT MANPOWER REPORTING:.

a. General. “The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower & Reserve Affairs) operates and maintains a secure Army data collection site where the contractor will report ALL contractor manpower (including subcontractor manpower) required for performance of this contract. The contractor is required to completely fill in all the information in the format using the following web address: https://contractormanpower.army.pentagon.mil. The required information includes:

b. Contracting Office, Contracting Officer, Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative;

c. Contract number, including task and delivery order number;

d. Beginning and ending dates covered by reporting period;

e. Contractor name, address, phone number, e-mails address, identity of contractor employee entering data;

f. Estimated direct labor hours (including sub-contractors);

g. Estimated direct labor dollars paid this reporting period (including sub-contractors);

h. Total payments (including subcontractors);

i. Predominant Federal Supply Class Code (FSC) reflecting services provided by contractor (and separate predominant FSC for each sub-contractor if different);

j. Estimated data collection cost;

k. Organizational title associated with the Unit Identification Code (UIC) for the Army Requiring Activity (the Army Requiring Activity is responsible for providing the contractor with its UIC for the purposes of reporting this information);

l. Locations where contractor and sub-contractors perform the work (specified by zip code in the United States and nearest city, country, when in an overseas location, using standardized nomenclature provided on website);

m. Presence of deployment or contingency contract language;

n. Number of contractor and sub-contractor employees deployed in theater this reporting period (by country).