Primary FTSS services include Contractor Operations and Maintenance Services (COMS), and Contractor Instructional Services (CIS) for primarily aircrew and maintenance simulators. These simulators/devices/training systems/classrooms support surface, sub-surface, and aviation customers.
COMS requires the Contractor to provide all labor, materials, consumables, equipment, tools and test equipment necessary to operator and maintain the training systems and equipment in a fully operational condition. CIS requires the Contractor to provide:
- Contract Instructors (CI) in support of simulators, training devices, associated classrooms and/or other training methods to train users in the knowledge and skills to support the mission and the established learning objectives
- Ancillary FTSS services include but are not limited to;
- Training Device Relocations (TDR)
- Training Systems Management (TSM)
- minor modification support
- In-service engineering support and similar FTSS needs
Tasks:
- Contractor Operation and Maintenance Services (COMS)
- Requires the Contractor to provide all labor, materials, consumables, equipment, tools and test equipment, and transportation necessary to maintain the training systems and equipment in a fully operational condition.
- Contractor Instructional Services (CIS)
- Requires the Contractor to provide Contract Instructors (CI) in support of simulators, training devices, FST, associated classrooms and/or other training methods to train users in the knowledge and skills to support the mission and the established learning objectives. This service shall include instruction, operation, and curriculum support requirements. This service could also include scenario planning, testing, execution and administration of unit or Fleet level FST events.
- Training Device Relocation (TDR
Requires the Contractor to relocate training devices and associated equipment, including all associated Material Support Packages (MSPs). The Contractor shall be responsible to provide experienced and qualified personnel, packing and shipping equipment and supplies, permits, and all other materials and resources necessary to inspect, inventory, safely disassemble, package, ship, install, test, and restore the trainers and MSP to ready-for-training condition.
- Training Systems Management (TSM)
- Requires the Contractor to provide a program or system to include any and all necessary support to run and manage a training site. This may include those activities associated with training facilitation and student management activities such as: scheduling, administration, record keeping, and reporting. TSM may be turnkey level of support, typically performed at a centralized training site.
- Training Device Modification (TDM)
- The Contractor may be required to accomplish on an over & above work request basis quick turn-around changes or modifications made in compliance with Government issued Training Equipment Change Directives (TECD’s) or aircraft Technical Directives (TDs). TECDs implement modification or engineering change requests or proposals related specifically to trainers, whereas TDs implement Air Frame Changes (AFCs) or Avionics Changes (AVCs) applicable to both aircraft and trainers. In response to Government solicitations for trainer changes/modifications, the Contractor shall make effective use of on site personnel in proposal development, and in the resulting modification work effort. Modifications will involve no or limited design/development work.
- Spares and Product Support
- The Contractor may be tasked by the Government, on an over & above work request basis, to procure spare parts for new, newly-modified, or fielded training devices and/or equipment. The Government will provide the provisioning data to the Contractor. This will include providing services including screening parts for source and availability, ordering, packaging, shipping to the site(s), and configuration conformance of the logistical support packages. The Contractor shall act as freight and shipping consolidator.
- The contractor may also be required to make Commercial-Off–the-Shelf (COTS) product buys in support of Government accomplished modification efforts (where the Government is acting as the integrator). This will not include “subassemblies” from a contractor that require development and/or design work as part of the tasking
- In-Service Engineering Office (ISEO) Support
- The Contractor may be tasked by the Government to provide engineering, technical and administrative support services to a designated Government engineering field office(s) in support of the FTSS program. This service could also include NCTE gateway management and other required actions in support of unit or Fleet level FST events.
- Training Device De-militarization and Disposal Support
- The Contractor may be tasked by the Government to disassemble, inventory, and transport, and otherwise prepare training devices for disposal. Compliance with any Federal, State, Local, or Base regulations regarding possible environmental safety impacts is required.
