Airworthiness, Safety & Logistic Technical Support for P-8A Aircraft.

Descriptions

Technical support services. An enabling contract is required to provide technical support to a multi-disciplined team based at MOD Abbey Wood responsible for delivery of the P8-A Poseidon into UK Service including all supporting activities. In order to support the delivery of the first UK P-8A in April 2019 the P-8A DT requires access to technical specialists across the full range of aeronautical engineering disciplines. These specialists will work alongside the P-8A DT to:— Provide Independent Technical Evaluation of various artefacts produced by the P-8A DT, NAVAIR and other 3rd party suppliers.— Generate aircraft and weapons certification products.— Deliver artefacts in support of Release to Service recommendations.— Operational Test and Evaluation Support.— Generate structural, systems and propulsion integrity products and processes.— Develop safety artefacts including: hazard logs, safety analyses, air-system hazard analyses, equipment safety assessments and safety assessment reports.— Generate MRP compliance evidence and alternative acceptable means of compliance, where applicable.— Produce a UK centric Air-system Document Set for the P-8A.— Support the development of 1 Group continuing airworthiness products.— Develop configuration control artefacts and processes.— Deliver integrated logistics support artefacts and processes.— Engage with 1 Group to support the provision of RAF engineering training.The duration of the contract will be two years, with options to extend for two further one-year extensions. Tasks will be individually priced using agreed firm daily rates. The total volume requirement is expected to equate to around fifteen man-years of effort per year.Relevant dates:Deadline for Expression of Interest and attached DPQQ: 23.5.2017Proposed/estimated ITT issue date: 29.5.2017Proposed/estimated ITT return date: 4.7.2017Proposed/estimated Contract award date: 29.7.2017.