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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 24, 2006 FBO #1579
SOLICITATION NOTICE

99 -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with instrumentation to collect remotely sensored data

Notice Date

3/22/2006
 

Notice Type

Solicitation Notice
 

NAICS

336411 — Aircraft Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Plains Area Office, 1001 Holleman Drive East, College Station, TX, 77840
 

ZIP Code

77840
 

Solicitation Number

R18-7MN1-2006
 

Response Due

4/13/2006
 

Archive Date

4/28/2006
 

Description

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is R18-7MN1-06 and is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). This solicitation is a small business set-aside; The NAICS is 336411, business size 1,500 employees. This solicitation document incorporates those provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 01-08. The USDA, Agricultural Research Service, requests the procurement of one Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with the following characteristics. The UAV will be used to develop techniques to measure arid land rangeland health and condition using high resolution digital images. The techniques will eventually be transferred for operational use by land management agencies like BLM and NRCS. Additional research studies will be conducted at Jornada using a variety of remote sensors. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE PLANE CONSTRUCTION AND FLIGHT OPERATIONS: 1(a) Launching from truck-mounted catapult; 1(b) Capable of orbiting a home station to await flightline orders and then automatically return to home station upon completion; 1(c) Autonomous operation: flightlines entered into flight software, plane automatically acquires imagery along flightlines and lands autonomously; 1(d) Ability to alter flight points in-flight, live uplink; 1(e) Landing site approx. 50 m x 100 m. Capability to land on pavement, dirt, or rough fields with irregular vegetation cover; 1(f) Flight duration up to 5 hours; 1(g) Flight altitude up from 100 ft - 9000 ft; 1(h) Range approximately 100-150 miles; 1(i) Ability to operate in winds up to 25-30 miles/hour; 1(j) Pusher engine (to not obstruct sensors or spray fuel on them); 1(k) Sturdy construction and ability to replace parts easily; 1(l) Relatively lightweight platform(<25-30lbs) easily carried by one person for refueling or downloading data; 1(m) Ease of portability of launcher, plane and ground station; launch and landing can be handled by one person, if necessary; 1(n) Two UAV platforms, one as primary system, one as backup; 1(o) Needs to be able to provide overflights for established point-line intercept or belt transects; 1(p) Must have demonstrated capability to obtain wall to wall image coverage over large areas up to 1000 sq km over sustained periods of up to two weeks; 1(q) Must be able to fly flightlines and at the end of mission land in a location different from takeoff. PAYLOAD AND IMAGE ACQUISITION: 2(a) sensors: pointable color video and digital camera linked to GPS and flight computer; 2(b) Ground resolution capability of less than 5 cm for digital images; 2(c) 3-axis gimbaled camera mount; 2(d) Payload 2.5 lbs; 2(e) Ability to switch sensors (thermal infrared, cameras, video etc.); 2(f) Live video downlink; 2(g) Image and attitude information file with GPS coordinates for image center, altitude, pitch, roll, and yaw of plane (approx. GPS accuracy 2-3 m); 2(h) For comparison purposes, needs to be a system used by other USDA or Federal Government natural resources agencies. The UAV shall be delivered to the USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Jornada Experimental Range, 2995 Knox Street, Rm 200, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003. The Government ?REQUIRES? delivery no later than August 1, 2006, however, each offeror shall include their proposed delivery schedule as part of their quotation. Acceptance and FOB point are destination. In order to be considered for award offerors shall provide a quotation on company letterhead detailing the unit pricing; descriptive literature, brochures, and five references for the proposed equipment. References must have received the proposed equipment within the last three calendar years (Government references preferred but will accept commercial references) shall also be provided for the product quoted. 52.252-2 CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE; FAR 52.212-4 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS - COMMERCIAL ITEMS; FAR 52.212-5 CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORDERS - COMMERCIAL ITEMS applies, with the following clauses from (a) 52.222-3, Convict Labor; 52.233, Protest after award, and (b) FAR 52.219-8, Utilization of Small Business Concerns; FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-35, Equal Opportunity for Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities; FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans, Veterans of the Vietnam Era, and Other Eligible Veterans; FAR 52.222-19, Child Labor - Cooperation with Authorities and Remedies; FAR 52.225-13, Restrictions on Certain Foreign Purchases; FAR 52.232-34,Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer - Other than Central Contractor Registration; applicable to this acquisition: FAR 52.252-1 SOLICITATION PROVISIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE; FAR 52.212-1 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS - COMMERCIAL ITEMS, FAR 52.212-2 EVALUATION - COMMERCIAL ITEMS, the significant evaluation factors, in the relative order of importance, are (i) technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement; (ii) past performance; and (iii) price (based on F.O.B. Destination), where technical, past performance, and price are equal. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3 OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS - COMMERCIAL ITEMS, with this offer; a copy of this provision may be obtained at http://www.arnet.gov/far. Any amendment and documents related to this procurement will be available electronically at the Internet site: http://www.fbo.gov. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of these documents (if any). It is the offerors responsibility to monitor the site for release of the solicitation and any related documents. Furnish quotations to Michael Douglas, Contracting Officer, no later than 3:00p.m., April 13, 2006. Quotations must be requested in writing via facsimile, Email or mail to the contacts listed below.
 

Place of Performance

Address: 2995 Knox Street, Rm 200, Las Cruces, NM

Zip Code: 88003

Country: United States
 

Record

SN01012062-W 20060324/060322211748 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

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