THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT.  THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY.  THE PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.  RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION DECISIONS.  A SUBSEQUENT SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT MAY FOLLOW.  RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO ANY FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENT.

 The General Services Administration (GSA) seeks one contractor for the repair and maintenance of the AV-8B squadrons within Marine Air Group (MAG) 14 and Marine Air Group (MAG) 13 aircraft's located at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ.

NAICS Code:  488190 - Other Support Activities for Air Transportation
SIC (Code): 4581 - Airports, Flying Fields, and Airport Terminal Services
PSC (Code): J015 - Maintenance-Repair of Aircraft
Size Standard: $32.5M

Description of services:

The government intends to issue a solicitation for aircraft maintenance functions of the Phase, Corrosion Control, Logs and Records Clerks, Maintenance Control, Supply and Aircraft organizational level (O-Level) and intermediate level (I-Level) maintenance support.

The most important Contractor objective is to provide safe flyable aircraft to execute the unit's daily flight schedule.  The daily flight schedule could change due to aircraft availability, weather and other factors.  The authorized individual for the Government will provide as much notice as possible regarding schedule changes. 

The increased volume of work is due to the present and forecasted increase aircraft assigned above standard primary assigned aircraft (PAA).  The most important objectives is to provide safe flyable aircraft to complete the squadron's daily flight schedule, reduce Time to Reliably Replenish Aircraft (TRR(A)) and achieve Type/Model/Series (T/M/S) readiness goals as required by Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and defined by the AV-8B Mission-Essential Subsystems Matrix (MESM).

Note: Additional work may be included in the solicitation

Acquisition information:

Those wishing to identify their capability and small business category need to provide the aforementioned services to this announcement via email to [email protected] and [email protected] no later than November 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time).  In the subject line please annotate "Contract for Aircraft Maintenance".  Interested parties should provide the following information: 

Company Name
Company Address
Point of Contact
Phone number
Email address
DUNS number
SB status
Schedule (GSA, Oasis, GWAC)
Government Wide Contract
Capability statement for the services stated above. 

Method of Award will be based on technical and performance and pricing.  The complete evaluation criteria will be in the solicitation.

Questions and responses should be directed to Tracie Gutierrez via electronic mail at [email protected] or Heidi Sawyer at [email protected]

THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR "SOURCES SOUGHT," SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL OR OFFER.  INFORMATION IS TO BE PROVIDED ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS.  NO ENTITLEMENT TO PAYMENT OF DIRECT OR INDIRECT COSTS OR CHARGES INCLUDING POSTAGE AND SHIPPING WILL ARISE AS A RESULT OF THE SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION.

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