Intent to Sole Source Mountain Flying Course

Naval Supply Systems Command San Diego hereby gives NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE to HNZ Topflight for 21 day mountain flying course receiving 22 flight hours of instruction in the Bell 407, 206, EC120B, or the AS350, as well as four days of ground school. The Rotary Wing Weapons School, located at NAWDC/NAS Fallon, was assigned the task to stand up the mountain flying syllabus. NAWDC contacted the Canadian Helicopters/School of Advanced Flight Training, now HNZ Topflight, in Penticton BC, and received permission to base the U.S. Navy course on HNZ Topflight's well established and successful program. As part of maintaining, standardizing, and administering this new mission assigned to NAWDC by Commander Second Fleet (COMSECONDFLTINST 5450.4, now COMNAVAIRPACINST 5450.42), NAWDC has made it a requirement for the helicopter pilot designated as the U.S. Navy Mountain Flying Program Manager to be a graduate of HNZ Topflight (NAVSTKAIRW ARCENINST 3000.2F).

Period of Performance Start:  15 August 2022

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 611512, Flight Training.

This notice of intent is not a request for competitive quotations. However, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the Government. The Government will consider responses received within 3 days of issuance of this notice. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct a full and open competitive procurement or a small business set aside competitive procurement. The Government will not pay for any information received in response to this announcement.

There will be no written solicitation issued. This is an intent to purchase a sole source procurement under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. This will be a Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) contract utilizing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures.

The contractor needs to be registered in the DoD System for Award Management (SAM).  Register via the SAM website https://www.sam.gov, and also be eligible to process invoices through Wide Area Workflow (WAWF).  Register via the WAWF website https://wawf.eb.mil.

Those capable of meeting the requirement IAW the SOW are requested to provide the following information in their response:  1) Current capability that demonstrates your company's ability to meet the above requirement, 2) Company name, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, type of business and size, Cage Code and DUNS number. 

IMPORTANT NOTES: 1) Information submitted will not be returned to the respective respondents. Oral submissions of information are not acceptable and will not be accepted in response to this notice. 2) Respondents may respond via e-mail no later than 12 August 2022, 09:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (PST) to nelson.arias@navy.mil.

If no responsible, responsive offers are received by the above date, a sole source contract will be issued to HNZ Topflight under the authority of FAR 6.302-1.