FAA seeks industry insights on facility inspections that use small UAS systems
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration's Technical Operations Department seeks information from industry as the FAA looks to find parties capable of conducting inspections of facilities that support agency infrastructure that use small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS).
These facilities include communication towers, ground-based navigational aids, site surveys, buildings, and roads. The agency says that inspections encompass LiDAR, thermal, photogrammetry, and panorama.
Interested parties must also be able to perform data collection, employ Esri flight planning, generate comprehensive reports, and upload data to Site Scan.
The FAA notes that any capability statement encompassing the provision of a UAS must align with Executive Order 13981, titled "Protecting the United States from Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems," issued on 18 January 2021.
Respondents to this market survey are requested to provide a capability statement and responses to the following items:
- Please provide a brief narrative explaining how your firm would provide the systems inspection services that the FAA requires. Also, detail how your firm meets the compliance requirements outlined in Section 3.
- Describe your experience providing similar support to other Federal and non-Federal clients. For those contracts, please provide the nature of the support, information on the size of the effort (in terms of total contract value), and the duration of the support. The narrative should demonstrate your firm’s capabilities to perform the work, not merely state that your firm can provide the services.
RFI responses must be submitted via e-mail to the contracting officer, Ashlee Baxter at [email protected] no later than 3:00 PM Eastern Time on 28 April 2024. More information, including documentation, is available at https://sam.gov/opp/d0ffa977b03e4261b165e97f000a9197/view.
