SOURCES SOUGHT
66 -- Wireless Environmental Monitoring System
- Notice Date
- 12/3/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334513
— Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Office of Acquisitions, 6120 Executive Blvd., EPS Suite 600, Rockville, Maryland, 20852
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- SS-100027-2010-AV
- Archive Date
- 12/29/2009
- Point of Contact
- Ashley L. Virts,
- E-Mail Address
-
virtsa@mail.nih.gov
(virtsa@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE: Wireless Environmental Monitoring System Notice Number: SS-100027-2010-AV Issued By: National Cancer Institute (NCI), (http://www.nci.nih.gov) Office of Acquisitions (OA) Key Dates: Capability Statement Due Date: December 14, 2009 General Information: This Sources Sought Notice (SS) is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Purpose: The purpose of this Sources Sought Notice is to identify qualified small business concerns including 8(a), HUBZone or Service-Disabled Veteran-owned business concerns that are interested in and capable of providing the equipment described herein. The NCI does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses received nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. As a result of this Sources Sought Notice, the NCI may issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ). THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against NCI shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought Notice or the NCI’s use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. Description of Information to be included in the Capability Statement: Contractor Requirements: The Contractor shall provide all labor, material and equipment necessary for a complete functional wireless environmental monitoring system to monitor various NCI equipment listed above. Contractor must provide onsite calibration of all sensors and provide input qualifications & calibration and operation qualification (IQ/OQ) documentation of environmental monitoring system to NCI staff one (1) month prior to installation. Contractor shall be able to provide an operational system within 2 months after award. Specifically, information is sought regarding equipment with the following salient characteristics: Unique features required for the Wireless Environmental Monitoring System: The system must be able to retrieve data from both hard wired and wireless sensors. The system must accommodate a minimum of 200 freezers, incubators and walk-in cold boxes up to a maximum of 500. The system must be expandable in order to add new equipment as necessary. All of the equipment is located on the NIH Bethesda campus throughout Building 10. The system shall be able to monitor temperature sensors, flood sensors, humidity sensors, CO2 sensors, or oxygen sensors. The system shall automatically notify specified personnel in the event of a sensor that has gone out of range. The system shall identify that the correct person has acknowledged the notification through a password protected response. The system must be active 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Government Personnel must be able to independently add or remove monitored points, adjust monitoring parameters, and call list data without using the services of the contractor. The system must be flexible so that the government is able to relocate monitored equipment within the system area without using the services of the contractor. The system shall monitor a minimum of 134 freezers. Each freezer is considered a monitoring point. The freezer temperatures and temperature ranges consist of the following: •89 EA: minus 80 degree freezers: (High Range -60, Low Range -90 degrees) •5 EA: minus 70 degree freezers: (High Range -60, Low Range -90 degrees) •5 EA: minus 20 degree freezers: (High Range -10, Low Range -40 degrees) •2 EA: minus 86 degree freezers: (High Range -60, Low Range -90 degrees) •33 EA: LN2 Liquid Nitrogen Freezers (High Range -130, Low Range -210 degrees) The system shall in include the following specifications: Ability to wirelessly monitor all points on the system to allow for future flexibility of location for each point should it become necessary to move a freezer from one location to another. NCI staff shall be able to relocate any point from room to room within each building or between buildings where compatible systems exist without any required assistance from the manufacturer or its representatives, so long as the new location is already covered by the wireless network. NCI staff shall be able to make all necessary changes to hardware or software to make any such move work without additional cost to the government. NCI staff shall be able to limit access to specific inputs based on department or group level, be expandable to monitor additional points up to a maximum of 500 as needed as requirements change without substantial upgrades to the overall system. This expandability is to include the ability of the system to expand to additional buildings within the NIH network. The system should be remotely monitored by numerous NCI staff through their own Windows based computers both at home and at work. Remote monitoring is to include the ability to see point temperatures in real time and the ability to inhibit alarms. NCI Staff shall be able to monitor and make changes to their own equipment, or equipment they are authorized to have access to, but not monitor or change other equipment on the system. The system must be capable of providing different levels of access which are granted to different staff. The system shall be able to log data even if the NIH network is down which includes the ability to automatically notify users even if the building network fails with a minimum of three dialers to limit dialing delays resulting from simultaneous failures. In addition, have the ability to contact system administrators in the event of a major component failure; indicate the location of points on floor plans which can be uploaded by a system administrator (NCI staff) without assistance from the manufacturer or its representatives. Data shall be presented in graph format for both historical and real time data. This data will be stored within the monitoring system. The system must be able to generate a report with specified start dates/times for a specified duration on the dates/times; for example, the ability to look at a 4 hour block of time for a specified input or group of inputs. The system shall automatically contact NCI users by telephone and/or e-mail when a point is outside of its parameters. Call lists shall be time and day dependent. Call lists shall be established by the NCI System Administrators once the system is installed. NAICS Code and Size Standard: In the event an RFQ is issued, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 334513 with a size standard of 500 employees is being considered. How to Submit a Response: Page Limitations: Interested qualified small business organizations should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement not to exceed 10 single sided pages including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc. (single space, 12 point font minimum) that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concern’s name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NCI personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. Due Date: Capability statements are due no later than 11a.m. December 14, 2009. Number of Copies and Delivery Point: Please submit one (1) original and three (3) copies of your response as follows: If hand-delivered or delivery service:If using U.S. Postal Service Ashley Virts – Contact SpecialistAshley Virts – Contract Specialist 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 6072-A6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 6072-A Rockville, MD 20852-7194Rockville, MD 20852-7194 All capability statements sent in response to the Sources Sought Notice must be submitted in writing to Ashley Virts. All responses must be received at NCI by the specified due date and time in order to be considered. No faxed or electronic mail submissions will be accepted. Point of Contact: Inquiries concerning this Notice may be direct to: Ashley Virts Contract Specialist 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 6072-A Rockville, MD 20852-7194 virtsa@mail.nih.gov
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