About the Contract
Description
DESP II is a five-year (from date of original award [30 June 2005]) multiple award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract vehicle. The contract ceiling is $1.9 billion. The ordering period is five (5) years (June 2005 through June 2010), and the performance period of any task order must be complete within two (2) years after the expiration date of the basic contract (30 June 2012). Any order extending beyond the expiration date of the basic contract must be fully funded prior to the expiration date of the basic contract.
Because the DESP II contract is a services contract, all task orders placed against DESP II shall comply with Air Force Instruction (AFI) 63-124. As such, all contract engineering tasks (CETs) shall be written in performance terms, in accordance with AFI 63-124. All work shall be described in terms of what the required output is rather than how the work is to be performed or the number of hours to be provided, except when deemed essential by functional activity for safety and/or security reasons.
Purpose
The purpose of the DESP II is to provide rapid, high-quality engineering and technical services. Other DESP II objectives include, but are not limited to, the following.
- Improve the productivity, effectiveness, efficiency and environmental friendliness of Air Force maintenance, repair, and operational (MRO) support activities, including related processes. When appropriate, provide for the automation of such processes, including ADPE hardware and/or software.
- Improve the performance, accuracy, reliability, maintainability, deployability, survivability, and supportability of Air Force systems, subsystems, and equipment, including support equipment.
- Develop new approaches to better accommodate life-cycle cost considerations in system development and support, such as improved specifications, standards, processes, and techniques.
- Evaluate and insert new technology to extend the life or improve the performance of existing weapon systems and to improve existing operational support, maintenance, and repair processes.
- Reduce life-cycle costs of weapon system management through improved management techniques, process improvement, process re-engineering, automation, configuration management, and quality assurance.
- Use a systems approach to design efforts in meeting technical requirements laid out by each task order.
- Perform studies that address the assessment of technical and/or logistical problems, including potential solutions and alternatives, technical and cost trade-offs, and definition of project designs and development.
- Establish, maintain, integrate, utilize, and provide training for processes and procedures to manufacture and install prototype systems, including both hardware and software, to test in both artificial and/or real-time environments against the criteria set forth by each task order or otherwise specified by a particular weapon system requirement.
- Develop and maintain all necessary test plans and procedures that take into account both user requirements and applicable environmental, health, and safety standards.
- Develop and produce all technical documentation, including changes in technical orders, technical data packages, engineering drawings, associated lists, and specifications as a result of newly developed and/or modified systems provided for under a particular task order.
- After an initial design/modification, DESP II can provide rapid access to limited manufacturing/production runs to resolve critical issues and short-term needs dictated by individual task orders.
DESP II provides a contracting vehicle, allowing rapid access to high-quality engineering and technical services in support of any federal agency requiring the services of qualified engineering and technical personnel.