SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- SIGINT SYSTEM
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U. S. Army Materiel Command, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
- ZIP Code
- 07703-5008
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-I2PO-0206
- Response Due
- 3/6/2009
- Archive Date
- 5/5/2009
- Point of Contact
- cmocik, 732-427-7097<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Army CERDEC (also known as the US Government (USG) in the rest of this document) is issuing a Request For Information (RFI) including price and availability (P&A) to integrate and field 2 (two) fully functional wideband HF/VHF/UHF Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Systems for a foreign country. This project will fall under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The two systems will consist of one vehicular system and one transit-case system developed using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and or Non-Developmental Item (NDI) hardware and software. This FMS project will be led and fully managed by the USG with assistance from one company (called the contractor from here on) that would provide all services described below. I. Introduction This document describes the services required by the USG for the integration and fielding of 2 SIGINT Systems. Specific technical requirements for each system will be provided upon request on a separate document. The vehicular system will be hosted on government-furnished equipment (GFE) civilian Chrysler Frontline vehicle modified to carry the SIGINT system and two monitoring operators. This vehicle will have with it the following GFE components: equipment racks, mast subsystem, power generator, and operator station furniture. Not GFE is the SIGINT mission equipment, antennas, and component cabling necessary to complete the SIGINT system. The transit case system will not have any GFE and all parts and components shall be supplied by the contractor. This RFI requests for P&A for the assistance and services necessary to complete the integration and delivery of 1 fully functional transit-case SIGINT System and the components and services to complete a similar vehicle-based system. II. General Requirements a. The contractor shall deliver to the USG at a designated USG facility one fully functional transit-case based wideband HF/VHF/UHF SIGINT system. Specific technical and performance requirements will be provided on a separate document to interested companies. The contractor shall provide all parts necessary to have a complete system. b. The contractor shall deliver to the USG at a designated USG facility the necessary hardware and software components to complete a vehicular wideband HF/VHF/UHF SIGINT system. The USG shall provide as GFE the vehicle, the power subsystem, an integrated extendible mast, all racks to house the contractor supplied SIGINT mission hardware, the internal radio frequency and power cabling, and the operator workstation furniture. The contractor shall supply the remaining components to complete the system including receivers, antennas, any dedicated cabling necessary to interconnect mission equipment components to each other and to the vehicle internal cabling, control laptops and displays, and any other necessary component. The USG will complete the integration of this system at its own facility with the contractor-supplied components and with contractor provided technical support. c. The contractor shall not develop any new components but rather use COTS hardware and software. The systems shall contain standard commercial interfaces and use commercial communications and data transfer protocols. d. The contractor shall plan and execute a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for the transit case system. The FAT shall be to be conducted at the contractors facility in the US and witnessed by USG representatives. The FAT shall be planned to demonstrate the full set of functions of the system with antenna using simulated or commercial emitters of convenience. e. The contractor shall plan and execute a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for the vehicular receiver system. The FAT will be modified to show the performance of the SIGINT system outside of its vehicular platform. The FAT shall be to be conducted at the contractors facility in the US and witnessed by USG representatives. The FAT shall be planned to demonstrate the full set of functions of the system (minus the vehicle) with antenna using simulated or commercial emitters of convenience. f. The contractor shall plan and execute a Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for the transit case system and for the vehicular system components. The SAT shall be to be conducted at the foreign country location and witnessed by USG representatives. The SAT shall be planned to demonstrate the full set of functions of the systems in a controlled field environment using simulated or commercial emitters of convenience. g. The contractor shall support the USG with planning and executing the SAT in the receiving country. The contractor shall plan to send representatives to the foreign country to provide engineering, programmatic and logistical support during this event. The functional demonstration shall be planned to demonstrate the full set of functions of the fully integrated systems in their final forms using simulated or commercial emitters of convenience. h. The contractor shall support the USG with training of both systems operator and Level 1 & 2 maintenance training to be conducted in the foreign country. The duration of this training shall be determined by the contractor. The vehicular system training will be modified by the USG to incorporate the vehicle and its specific components. With the training support of the full system, the contractor shall deliver a written training plan and 12 (twelve) copies of the training documents in paper copy and CD-ROM that will be left with the foreign country after system fielding. i. The contractor shall deliver with each system 12 (twelve) paper and CD-ROM copies of all system operator and user manuals. The maintenance manuals shall provide concise information, including engineering drawings, trouble shooting diagrams, layout drawings, printed circuit board overlays, test and alignment procedures, theory of operation, interconnection diagrams, and parts lists. A list of maintenance and test equipment required for equipment maintenance prescribing make, model, description, manufacturer and alternatives shall be included. These manuals shall be suitable for rapid and efficient maintenance and repair of the equipment by a competent technician. j. The transit case system shall be housed in transit cases designed to operate in military environments and be resistant to extreme European weather conditions and protect the equipment within it in these environments. k. Integration of the vehicular system components into the vehicle shall not require any custom mounting or power interfaces but rather use commercial mounting standards. l. The systems shall not use special or unique tools to operate or maintain. With the proposal, the contractor shall deliver technical specifications, size, weight, power, and operation/storage environmental information. Photographs displaying the front and back of all components are desirable. Description of antenna mounting requirements is required for the vehicular components. Specific information of the actual vehicle, the power sources, mast, and any other pertinent information about the vehicle will be available upon request by interested contractors. m. Power shall be 230VAC, 50Hz and 12/24VDC. n. The system shall be modular and operate using Windows XP or later Windows based operating system. o. Where applicable, the contractor shall have the flexibility to suggest improved or more efficient methods, specifications, or configurations to perform the above requirements more efficiently and or at lower cost. III. Warranty The contractor shall provide a 12-month full-coverage warranty for all its components. IV. Spares The contractor shall deliver an initial set of spares for all its components that can support Level 1 & 2 maintenance for 1 year. V. Response Format and required Information a. All responses shall be formatted according to the contractors format but shall contain at a minimum the following: (1)A matrix showing compliance with each requirement (2)A cost breakout for the full set of services including the system technical support, training, warranty, spares, programmatic support, and logistical support, at least four trips to the USG facility for meetings, a possible 5-day coordination meeting and survey to the foreign country (3)A proposed delivery schedule with key milestones b. Responses without the above may be rejected by the USG. c. All responses shall address the full set of requirements. Responses that address only partial requirements shall not be considered for review by the USG. VI. Original Point of Contact Interested parties may submit information to Director, US Army CERDEC I2WD, ATTN: AMSRD-CER-IW-SQ, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5000. Inquires may be directed to Chad Mocik, (732) 427-7097, E-mail address: chad.mocik@us.army.mil and Fernando Rodriguez, (732) 532-1948, Email address: jose.f.rodriguez2@us.army.mil. Initial responses are requested no later than February 28, 2009 VII. RFI Scope This RFI for P&A does not constitute a commitment on the part of the USG to purchase systems or services. The USG will not pay for any information received in response to this RFI. The USG will not release any information marked with a proprietary legend received in response to this RFI, to any firms, agencies or individuals outside the USG without written permission in accordance with the legend. VIII. Place of Performance Deliverables shall be conducted in locations as indicated above. The address for the USG facility indicated above is: US Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD), ATTN: AMSRD-CER-IW-SQ, Building 600, Fort Monmouth, NJ USA 07703.
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