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This announcement serves as a market survey for the subject requirement. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Logistics Center Automation and Communications Product Division, AJW-L800 has a requirement to provide a follow-on contractor repair and spare parts acquisition contract to the existing ETVS and STVS contract. The current contract provides serviceable spare parts to and receives back reparable parts from, FAA and Department of Defense (DoD) field facilities responsible for maintaining Enhanced Terminal Voice Switch (ETVS) and Small Tower Voice Switch (STVS) systems. The follow-on contract that will be the result of this RFI will accomplish the same effort in accordance with the attached Statement of Work and attached ETVS/STVS Requirements Document.
At this time, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (UEI: KV8YDNS7VMT9; CAGE: 25512) is believed by the FAA to be the only
available source due to their status as OEM. Additionally, Concerning proprietary rights to the drawings, specifications and repair procedures, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC) has not authorized any other company to have proprietary rights and/or be an authorized repair/replenishment source for ETVS and STVS components. In addition, NGSC will not be selling the proprietary rights to the FAA or to another company.
Although no other sources are currently known by the FAA to exist, please provide a response to this
announcement if your entity is in fact fully capable, authorized and interested in providing the required service.
If no responses are received asserting a competitive environment among fully capable vendors that
can be confirmed by the US Government, the FAA intends to pursue fulfilment of this requirement with
the aforementioned only known source using agency single source procurement procedures.This announcement is being posted for market research purposes in compliance with Acquisition
Management Systems (AMS) 3.2.2.5.1 (c) if no other available sources can be confirmed to exist. The
AMS is the FAA's agency wide governing acquisition authority in place of the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR). You can learn more about the FAA's acquisition processes and procedures at the
following website:
https://fast.faa.gov/PPG_Procurement.cfm
