PLEASE SEE THE NAVAIR OPEN SOLICITATION WEBSITE REFERENCED BELOW FOR CURRENT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS SOLICITATION. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is announcing its intent to conduct a full and open competition to provide all logistics services and materials for organizational, intermediate and depot level maintenance required to support and maintain a total of seventy-one (71) T-45A and one hundred eight (108) T-45C aircraft. Seventy-one (71) T-45A and thirty (30) T-45C are based at NAS Kingsville, TX; sixty-nine (69) T-45C aircraft are stationed at NAS Meridian, MS; and nine (9) T-45C aircraft are located at NAS Pensacola, FL. Additionally, outlying support will be required at Meridian Regional Airport, Key Field, MS; Bravo Field, MS; NALF Orange Grove, TX; Corpus Christi International Airport, TX; and Pensacola Regional Airport, Pensacola, FL. The Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) effort also includes off-site flight line support and maintenance for the T-45 aircraft in support of ship-based Carrier Qualification Detachments (CQ Dets), and CNATRA approved shore-based detachments. Off-site maintenance support shall also be required for the T-45 at off-site shore-based locations when any T-45 aircraft is not Ready for Training (RFT). T-45TS is a fully integrated training system used for training officers in the Undergraduate Jet Pilot Training (UJPT) Program, the officers in the Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) Program, as well as Instructors Under Training (IUT) who will conduct training for the officers assigned to the UJPT and the Naval Flight Officer (NFO)/Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) programs. The T-45 ?Goshawk? aircraft is a derivative of the British Aerospace ?Hawk.? It has two SJU-17 Navy Aircrew Common Ejection Seats (NACES) in tandem with zero-zero capability and is powered by a single Rolls-Royce (RR) F405 turbofan engine. The airframe is constructed primarily of aluminum with a conventional frame/stringer/stiffener structure with moderately swept wings. The aircraft has been modified to make it carrier capable. The solicitation (N00019-07-R-0062) is available on the NAVAIR Open Solicitation webpage at http://www.navair.navy.mil/doing_business/open_solicitations/ under solicitation number N00019-07-R-0062. Any amendment(s) issued will be posted to the same website and all interested parties should regularly access the website to ensure they have all amendments. Failure to obtain any posted amendments and to respond to each of them prior to the date and time set for receipt of offers may render your offer nonresponsive. Proposal submission shall be no later than the date and time specified on the RFP [Standard Form 33 (Block 9)]. Contract award of one base year and four option years is anticipated to be on or about 31 July 2008 with a 60-day transition period and full contract performance to begin 1 October 2008. The Naval Air Systems Command is holding a Pre-Proposal Conference and Site Visits for this effort 14 January 2008 ? 17 January 2008. Please email
[email protected] for conference information and registration instructions. Registration must be completed by 7 January 2008. Please direct any questions or comments regarding this solicitation or Pre-Proposal Conference and Site Visits to Noelle Reimers, Contract Specialist at (301-757-8984), or by email to
[email protected].