HC-130H Maintenance Services

Added: Mar 19, 2015 1:03 pm The objective of this solicitation and any resulting contract is to obtain HC-130H Maintenance Services (Contractor Logistics Services (CLS)) in support of US Forest Service HC-130H airtanker operations. The Contractor will provide maintenance crews meeting the minimum requirements of the solicitation.

The US Forest Service HC-130H will be configured with a MAFFS II system and the aircraft will be based out of McClellan Airfield in Sacramento, CA. Contractor personnel will not be required to perform maintenance on the MAFFS II system. The aircraft will be operated year round, initially for a nine month period (June 01 - January , with options to extend the term of the contract for an additional two full years. Services will be provided five days per week, excluding holidays, during the non-fire season periods and seven days per week, including holidays, during the fire season. The solicitation and resulting contract contains Alternate 1 of the Government Property Clause. Please note that FAR 52.245-1 Alternate 1, shifts the risk of any loss of Government Property to the Contractor as follows.

52.245-1, Alternate I (Apr 2012). As prescribed in 45.107(a)(2), substitute the following for paragraph (h)(1) of the basic clause:

(h)(1) The Contractor assumes the risk of, and shall be responsible for, any loss of Government property upon its delivery to the Contractor as Government-furnished property. However, the Contractor is not responsible for reasonable wear and tear to Government property or for Government property properly consumed in performing this contract.

The resulting contract will be firm fixed rate contract for HC-130H maintenance crew services.

Questions shall be submitted prior to Close of Business (COB) April 06, 2015. Questions must be submitted in writing to michaelmcfarlane@fs.fed.us.

This requirement is issued as unrestricted.