Sonobuoy Lot Acceptance Testing (SLAT)
Contract Opportunity Analysis
The Department of the Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division is soliciting contractor-owned, contractor-operated aviation services to support NAVAIR’s sonobuoy lot acceptance testing effort for PMA-264. The work includes establishing SLAT operational readiness, providing flight services, delivering a sonobuoy launch system, making aircraft modifications, training personnel, and supplying technical and administrative data to support program oversight. The acquisition is tied to validating sonobuoy system performance and reliability in operational environments and will be conducted under FAR Part 15, DFARS 215.3, DoD Source Selection Procedures, NAVAIRINST 4200.39D, and PMA-264 program-specific requirements; Amendment 0001 updates the minimum small business participation commitment in Section L, Volume 5.1. The solicitation also notes that government responses to RFIs have been posted, and the listed contacts are Bradley Dioguardo and David Silverstone.