SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Sources Sought, VHF Radio Systems for Afghanistan
- Notice Date
- 10/30/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W15P7T) Division B, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- MARKET-SURVEY-6253-1
- Archive Date
- 12/2/2017
- Point of Contact
- Steven Cooper, Phone: 443-395-6992
- E-Mail Address
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steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil
(steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT MARKET SURVEY. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. REQUESTS FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. Any information submitted by respondents to this synopsis is strictly voluntary. This market survey does not constitute a Request for Proposals (RFP) or a request for sealed bids (IFB), nor does its issuance restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The Government will neither award a contract solely on the basis of this notice, nor pay respondents for any information that they submit in response to this Sources Sought request. The United States Army CECOM Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD) is conducting this sources sought market survey to determine price and availability (P&A) from potential sources capable of fulfilling a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirement as follows. The United States Army CECOM Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD) is conducting this market survey to determine potential sources capable of producing and delivering Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Very-High Frequency (VHF) radio systems for the Afghanistan Ministries of Defense and Interior (MoD, MoI). Radio systems with the following salient features are required: • Selectable or alternate operating frequency ranges: 30-80 MHz and 136-174 MHz. • P25 standard compatible. • 220 Volt/50 Hertz hard stand input power; 12 Volt DC vehicular input power; battery hand carry and man pack input power. Fully-charged batteries last 8 hours under normal use; user changeable without tools. Useable life of rechargeable battery not less than 3 years. • 256-Bit AES encryption (switchable to 128-bit AES encryption, desired). • Required configurations: hand held, man pack, vehicular, base station, retransmission (ability to use same radio transmitter in multiple configurations desired.) Include required vehicle installation and mounting kits. • Sand, dust, water, shock, and heat resistant (IP67 or MIL-STD 810G desired.) • Screen display switchable between English and Dari (If not immediately available in Dari, implement as a future capability within 12 months of initial delivery). • Compatible with other radio systems using single channel FM analog voice in un-encrypted and AES encrypted modes (examples: Harris 7850M, Harris 7850S; Datron HH7700, Datron PRC-1077.) • Internal Standard Positioning Service (SPS) GPS (switchable location signaling desired). • Hand held minimum transmit power: 5W; man pack minimum transmit power: 10W; vehicle minimum transmit power: 25W; base station minimum transmit power: 50W. • On-off/volume, frequency/channel settings, squelch, other user controlled functions easily manipulated with user confidence of correct settings in low-light environments. • Compatible accessories include headsets, handsets, external speakers, data input/output devices. • Handheld radio can be interfaced to an amplifier and alternate antenna for increased range. • Commercial standard interfaces using ruggedized connectors. • Compatible with commercial standard encryption key fill device. • User-replaceable antennas. The US Government requests that interested parties submit a brief description of proposed system(s), your company, your company's ability to deliver radio system(s) that meet the requirement, with a price and availability statement describing the ROM cost, time to deliver, and rate of production. US Government also requests information on system MTBF, brief concept of recommended maintenance and logistics support, and company's ability to conduct operator and maintenance training in Afghanistan. Format: Interested parties are requested to respond to this market survey with a white paper in Microsoft Word Office 2007 compatible format. Responses are limited to 15 pages, including cover and administrative pages. Response documents should be written using a 10 point font size or larger. The paper must include company name, company address, overnight delivery address (if different from mailing address), cage code, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number; business size, unique qualifiers (e.g. large, foreign, small disadvantage, veteran owned, woman owned, etc.). The Government acknowledges its obligation under 18 U.S.C. 1905 to protect information qualifying as confidential under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the Government is willing to accept any proprietary (e.g., trade secret) restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following: 1. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data with the restrictive legend (all caps) PROPRIETARY with any explanatory text, so that the Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protected. 2. In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials that are truly proprietary (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as proprietary may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response-see item 3 below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected. 3. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in the possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data. 4. Proprietary data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the government, shall contain the proprietary legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for only portions of an electronic file, identify where the restrictive legends proprietary portion begins and where the proprietary portion ends. Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to the Point of Contact, steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil. Verbal questions will not be accepted. Questions will not contain proprietary or classified information. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after 17 November 2017 will be answered. Response Deadline and Submissions: Parties may begin submitting responses to this request for information immediately with all white paper submissions due no later than 15 November 2017. Point of Contact: Mr. Steven C. Cooper, FMS Engineer (443-395-6992, steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil). Contracting Office: 4310 Boothby Hill Ave., ACC-APG Division D, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
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