CY24 IPS Award Notice   2

This Task Order provides for Integrated Product Support (IPS) for all Navy, Marine Corps, and the governments of Spain, Canada, Switzerland, Malaysia, Kuwait, Australia, and Finland's F/A-18A-F and Electronic Attach EA-18G aircraft. The IPS provides for the sustainment of the F/A-18 Automated Maintenance Environment system, to include software upgrades and training to support fleet maintenance activities; interactive electronic technical manuals updates and releases to the fleet; logistics support to provide on-site assistance to operators and organizational and intermediate level maintainers; establishing and running Hornet Support Centers required to support Navy and Marine Corps F/A-18 and Navy EA-18G aircraft; failure reporting and corrective action system maintenance; sustaining engineering to include engineering investigations, system safety analysis, structural appraisal of fatigue effects support, technical integration support, trade studies, and aerodynamic simulation/modeling support; and peculiar support equipment (PSE) management to include analysis of aircraft changes for PSE impact.

This sole source action includes Firm-Fixed-Price and Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract types. In accordance with FAR 6.302-1(a)(2)(ii)(B), the items being procured are available only from the original source as in the case of a follow-on contract, it is likely that award to another source would result in unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements.