F-16 Simulator Visual System Upgrade

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Jun 28, 2017 5:24 pm NOTICE: This is not a solicitation but rather a Sources Sought to determine potential sources for information and planning purposes only.

1- The purpose of this Sources Sought is to conduct market research to determine if responsible sources exist, to assist in determining if this effort can be competitive and/or a total Small Business Set-Aside. The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 511210, with a corresponding size standard of $38.5M. The contractor shall ensure that all applicable Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) IA and IA- enabled products comply with AFI 33-200, Information Assurance. Some of these products must be Committee on National Security Systems Policy 11 (CNSSP-11) compliant, requiring them to be validated by accredited labs under the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme or National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) as identified in the sections below. The Government will use this information to determine the best acquisition strategy for this procurement. The Government is interested in all small businesses to include 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, HUBZone, and Women-Owned small business concerns. The Government requests that interested parties respond to this notice if applicable and identify your small business status to the identified NAICS code. Additionally, please provide any anticipated teaming arrangements, along with a description of similar support offered to the Government and to commercial customers for the past three years. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners.
Program Details:
The 309th SMXG EPAF program requires a solution for new flight simulators. TSSC-EPAF WST Simulator Upgrade for S1.1 requires the replacement of the visual system. The visual system requires an image generation solution to display the virtual world to the pilot flying in the simulator.
Line Item: 0001 PN: VRSG6US
Description: MetaVR VRSG v6.1 Software
Quantity: 40 Each
Line Item: 0002A PN: HYPModel
Description: MetaVR 3D Model Entites in HPY Model Format - Belgium marked F-16A/B Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0002B PN: HYPModel
Description: MetaVR 3D Model Entites in HPY Model Format - Portugal marked F-16A/B
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0003 PN: TTOOLS1.4
Description: MetaVR Terrain Tools for ArcGIS
Quantity: 2 Each
Line Item: 0004 PN: BelgiumTDB
Description: Belgium Terrain Database in Metadesic Format
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0005 PN: EUROPETDB
Description: Belgium Data Integration in Metadesic Format
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0006A PN: EBFS_TDB
Description: Belgium High Res Airfields - Florennes Air Base
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0006B PN: EBBL_TDB
Description: Belgium High Res Airfields - Kleine Brogel Air Base
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0007 PN: DRLMS
Description: 3X3 KM Inserts for DRLMS Higher Fidelity
Quantity: 5 Each
Line Item: 0008 PN: PortugalTDB
Description: Portugal Terrain Databse in Metadesic Format
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0009 PN: ERUOPETDB
Description: Portugal Data Integration/Model Repurpose in Metadesic Format
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0010 PN: LPMR_TDB
Description: Portugal High Res Airfield Update - Monte Real Air Base
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0011 PN: EUROPETBD
Description: MetaVR Europe 3D Terrain Database
Quantity: 1 Each
Line Item: 0012 PN: CONUS++Region
Description: MetaVR Conus++ 3D Terrain Database
Quantity: 1 Each
This is a Brand Name or Equal requirement. Equal options to the brand name mentioned will be evaluated against the follow Essential Salient Characteristics.
Essential Salient Characteristics:
VRSG6US: Image Generator License dongle
• User's guide
• Windows 10 64-bit compatible
• Nvidia GTX 1080 compatible
• High performance visualization of virtual environment
• Sensor modes - for targeting Pod view
• Night vision rendering
• Physics-based Infrared (IR) and radar simulation
• Round earth terrain format
• Weather features such as snow, rain, haze, fog, cloud layers
• Animated particles such as missile trails, contrails, chaff, flare, dust trails, rain, snow, sand, fire, explosions, fire, markers, plumes, columns, vegetation movement, weapon effects
• Library of minimum 2500 military models with articulated parts, damage states, animations, and thermal sensor viewing
• Content library to contain minimum 350 character models, 2500 building models, 200 commercial vehicle models
• Ability to place all models into a scenario as cultural features or virtual entities using DIS protocol
• All place-able entities assigned a DIS Identification number to allow DIS-based threat environment interaction
• CAF DMO standards compliant
HPYModel: Modelled entity in HPY Model Format
• High fidelity 3D model of Belgium marked F-16 A/B to include ownship model and wing stores
• High fidelity 3D model of Portugal marked F-16 A/B to include ownship model and wing stores
TTOOLS1.4: Tool extension to ArcGIS to allow construction of 3D terrain in format application to IG license selection:
• Include sample data
• Tutorial projects
• Support for all ArcGIS-supported data formats
• Ability to supply vector data to define linear and areal features
• Generate roads, adjust elevation, create buildings, create boundaries between terrain and water
Belgium TDB: Terrain Database in Metadesic Format for country of Belgium
• 30-meter DTED2 (30m-posts) elevation data
• Blend in with 25-40 cm imagery of Belgium
• Blend Belgium imagery into 15m Europe database
• Delivered on external hard drive
Europe TDB - Integrate Belgium high resolution insets as provided:
• 5 high-resolution imagery insets
• Ortho-rectified high resolution imagery insets blended seamlessly into Belgium terrain
• Areas of Interest: Beauvechain (10cm), Bertix (20cm), Florennes (10cm), Kleine Brogel (10cm), MEF (20cm), and Saint-Hubert (10cm)
• Delivered on external hard drive
EBFS-TDB: High Resolution primary Air Field for Florennes Air Base, Belgium
• Location: Florennes Air Base (ICAO: EBFS)
• Geo-specific runways, including taxiways, aprons, and ram areas
• Runway lighting including landing lights based on AirNav data referencing runway lighting system
• Lighting systems to include taxiway edge lights, runway edge lighting, approach light systems, touchdown zone lights, runway end identifier lights, visual slope indicator lights, runway centerline lights, precision approach indicators
• Minimum 40 buildings/landmarks of surrounding area: Geo-specific 3D buildings to include control towers, hangars, terminals, administrative buildings, antennas, windsocks.
• Geo-specific control tower modelled and positioned per airport charts
• Geo-typical vegetation models within airfield AOI
• Airport models provided as source for unlimited reuse, but not resale.
• Delivered on external hard drive
EBBL - TDB: High Resolution primary Air Field for Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium
• Location: Kleine Brogel Air Base (ICAO: EBBL)
• Geo-specific runways, including taxiways, aprons, and ram areas
• Runway lighting including landing lights based on AirNav data referencing runway lighting system
• Lighting systems to include taxiway edge lights, runway edge lighting, approach light systems, touchdown zone lights, runway end identifier lights, visual slope indicator lights, runway centerline lights, precision approach indicators
• Minimum 40 buildings/landmarks of surrounding area: Geo-specific 3D buildings to include control towers, hangars, terminals, administrative buildings, antennas, windsocks.
• Geo-specific control tower modelled and positioned per airport charts
• Geo-typical vegetation models within airfield AOI
• Airport models provided as source for unlimited reuse, but not resale.
• Delivered on external hard drive
DRLMS: High Fidelity DRLMS radar return areas of interest
• 16-1 Location = N5057.2496 E00508.8801
• 16-2 Location = N5056.9706 E00519.4591
• 17-1 Location = N5057.5334 E00545.2394
• 17-2 Location = N5058.4689 E00545.4188
• 19-1 Location = N5102.9670 E00528.8561
• 3x3KM square area of interest
• Update visual for higher fidelity visual returns.
• Allow for visibility of larger cultural features such as bridges, rivers, railroads, etc.
Portugal TDB: Virtual Terrain database of Country of Portugal:
• DTED1/2 elevation data
• Blend in 50 cm imagery of Portugal if country-provided, or 15m imagery of country
• Blend Portugal imagery into 15m Europe database
• Delivered on external hard drive
Europe TDB - Integrated Openflight models into Portugal database:
• Integrate existing models into Portugal database:
• LEBZ Badajoz Airport
• LPFR Faro Airport
• LEST Santiago Airport
• LPMR Monte Real Airport
• LEVX Vigo Airport
• LPMT Montijo Airport
• LEZL Sevilla Airport
• LPOV Ovar Airport
• LPAL Alcochete Airport
• LPPR Porto Airport
• LPBJ Beja Airport
• LPPT Lisboa Airport
• LPCS Cascais Airport
• LPST Sintra Airport
• All airfields to be properly aligned with terrain database
• Runway smoothing with elevation data
• Integrate heliport models:
• LPCD Santa Comba Dao Heliport
• lPXX Massarelos Heliport
• LPSA Salemas Heliport
• Alcochete Firing Range
• Integrate wind turbines, powerlines, trees, bridge model, oil rig model
• Delivered on external hard drive
LPMR-TDB - High-resolution primary air field of Monte Real Air Base
• Location: Monte Real Air Base (ICAO: LPMR)
• Geo-specific runways, including taxiways, aprons, and ram areas
• Runway lighting including landing lights based on AirNav data referencing runway lighting system
• Lighting systems to include taxiway edge lights, runway edge lighting, approach light systems, touchdown zone lights, runway end identifier lights, visual slope indicator lights, runway centerline lights, precision approach indicators
• Minimum 40 buildings/landmarks of surrounding area: Geo-specific 3D buildings to include control towers, hangars, terminals, administrative buildings, antennas, windsocks.
• Geo-specific control tower modelled and positioned per airport charts
• Geo-typical vegetation models within airfield AOI
• Airport models provided as source for unlimited reuse, but not resale.
• Delivered on external hard drive
Europe TDB - Europe 3D Database
• 15M terrain data
• 50 meter post terrain spacing
• DTED 1 elevation source data
• Minimum 30 high resolution insets at least 100cm data of major European cities
• Delivered on external hard drive
CONUS++ Region - Southwest United States and Mexico database
• 70-100m elevation data
• 1 meter per pixel resolution
• High resolution insets of minimum 7 areas of interest for mission training southwest US.
The information in this notice is based on the best and most current information available to date. This information is subject to change and is not binding to the Government. Updated information will be provided in future announcements and posted electronically on the Federal Business opportunities homepage at www.fbo.gov.
NOTE: RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT SHALL STATE IF THEY ARE A SUPPLIER OR MANUFACTURER!
The Government is interested in all small businesses including 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), or, if applicable based on NAICS code, Economically disadvantaged women-owned small business (EDWOSB) Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB) that are interested in performing this requirement. The Government requests interested parties submit a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size), business status (i.e., 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, or SDVOSB, WOSB, EDWOSB, or small business) anticipated teaming arrangements, and a description of similar support offered to the Government and to commercial customers.
Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners. The Government will use this information in determining its small business set-aside decision.
As stipulated in FAR 15.201, responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. The decision to solicit for a contract shall be solely within the Government's discretion.
Any information submitted by respondents to this sources sought synopsis is voluntary. This sources sought notice is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government reimburse any costs associated with the submission of information in response to this notice. Respondents will not be individually notified of the results of any Government assessments. The Government's evaluation of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside for small businesses, or any particular small business designation (e.g. SDVOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), WOSB, VOSB, etc.).
Commodity Capabilities package: All interested firms shall submit a capabilities package that explicitly demonstrates company capabilities-indicating examples of commercial sales-and product specifications related to this effort. Also indicate if you are the manufacturer, or provide the name and size of the manufacturer of the product(s) you will be supplying. Respondents are further requested to indicate their status as a Foreign-owned/foreign-controlled firm and any contemplated us of foreign national employees on this effort.
Include in your capabilities package your DUNS, Cage Code, System for Award Management expiration date, GSA contract number and expiration (if applicable), and any related specifications/drawings.
Please provide the GSA contract number applicable to this requirement.
Responses may be submitted electronically to the following e-mail addresses:
emily.mccollaum.2@us.af.mil
andrea.bean.1@us.af.mil
RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 3:00 pm MST on July 14, 2017


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Jul 11, 2017 12:07 pm
This amendment is to post questions and answers submitted for this requirement.
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Jul 14, 2017 9:48 am This amendment (2) is to post questions and answers submitted for this requirement.
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Jul 14, 2017 2:59 pm This amendment (3) is to post questions and answers submitted for this requirement.
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Aug 08, 2017 4:09 pm This requirement will be purchased as a brand name requirement under the authority of FAR 6.302-4, International Agreement.

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Jan 02, 2018 12:40 pm This requirement will not be solicited on FBO.