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The Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) - 338 ESS, JBSARandolph, Texas 78150-4302, announces its intent to issue a firm-fixed price contract on a sole source basis to Vertex Solutions, L... The Air Force Installation Contracting Center (AFICC) - 338 ESS, JBSARandolph, Texas 78150-4302, announces its intent to issue a firm-fixed price contract on a sole source basis to Vertex Solutions, LLC. 3007 Village Office Pl, Champaign, IL 61822-7674, under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(l): Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency. DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: PURPOSE. The purpose of this requirement is to maintain and support Pilot Training Transformation (PTT) device solutions based on state-of- the-art commercial simulation environments, hardware solutions for the cockpit simulation environment, and ancillary software elements. SCOPE. The Contractor shall provide all services and equipment necessary to install, maintain, and support new and existing PTT devices: Immersive Training Devices (ITDs), portable ITDs (pITDs), and Immersive Content Devices (ICDs). The services and equipment shall be provided at the following locations: Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) – Randolph, TX; Columbus Air Force Base (AFB), MS; Laughlin AFB, TX; Vance AFB, OK, and Fort Rucker, AL. The Contractor shall maintain (1) a common software interface to integrate current and future PTT software and hardware components as required by program goals, (2) hardware solutions for the cockpit simulation environment, and (3) on-premises network and data architecture hardware and support, as appropriate for deployed training systems. The Contractor shall work with other prime and subcontractors to maintain scalable software and hardware component integration interfaces and communication standards, as well as a common style and user interface (UI) design across all components. The Contractor shall perform all additional work necessary to support and maintain use of all required PTT devices including all integrated components. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES. The Contractor shall maintain and support third-party simulation environment components that shall abstract all bi-directional communication with PTT ecosystem component micro-services, such as those implemented by AI flight instructors, LMS, and Electronic Flight Bag solutions. The components shall additionally implement micro-services intended to expose custom functionality implemented within the flight simulation environment as part of the PTT program, e.g., in a virtual reality dynamic menu system. Aggregate PTT device functionality shall be exposed to the higher-level PTT components via two proposed components that shall be implemented using service-oriented architectures (SOAs): The “ITD Management Service Application” that will be implemented as a persistent Windows service application responsible for receiving login event notifications from the Google SSO (or equivalent) and (a) initializing all local ITD software with required runtime data, and (b) launching the Student Portal (login landing page). The flight simulator–agnostic “ITD Common Interface” will directly integrate with flight simulator– specific and Vertex-developed third-party plugins and effects to expose various PTT device data, scenario configuration and initialization functionality, aircraft/avionics data, and dynamic menu/injectable visual content functionality to higher-level PTT applications via open and custom micro-services. Specific integration pathways—i.e., the ITD Common Interface and individual PTT components shall leverage either existing PTT component micro-services or new ITD Common Interface micro-services as required. The Contractor shall participate in the design, implementation, and maintenance of mobile device management and device-level identity management and authentication solutions across PTT devices as requested by designated program authorities and ATO requirements. The Contractor shall work with other prime and subcontractors to maintain the scaled software and hardware component integration interfaces and communication standards, maintain a common style guide and user interface (UI) design across all components. The Contractor shall perform all additional work necessary to support and maintain all required PTT devices, including all integrated components. (See also Paragraphs 5.1 and 16.0 below.) RESPONSE INTRUCTIONS This notice of intent is NOT a request for proposals or quotations. Requests for copies of a solicitation in a response to this notice will be honored or acknowledged. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed action based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether conducting a competitive procurement for this scope of work is in the best interest of the Government. Responses submitted in response to this notice shall include the following: Description of how the interested party plans to maintain and support PTT’s device solutions based on state-of-the-art commercial simulation environments, hard ware solutions for the cockpit simulation environment, and ancillary software elements. b. Your business size status (i.e. 8(a) Business Development Small Business Certification, Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Small Business, Large Business, etc.) To be considered by the Government, interested parties (at their own cost), must deliver their intent and capabilities to satisfy the Government's requirement to the Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than 9:00 AM Central Daylight Time (CDT) on 25 July 2022. For specific questions, please contact the Contract Specialist, Darnell Ledsinger II at darnell.ledsinger.2@us.af.mil or the Contracting Officer, Darnell Ledsinger at darnell.ledsinger.2@us.af.mil.