SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- Wave Relay Radio Routers
- Notice Date
- 8/29/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL/RIK - Rome, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, New York, 13441-4514, United States
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- FA8751-18-Q-0498
- Archive Date
- 9/28/2018
- Point of Contact
- Leslie A. Christoferson, Phone: 315-330-7255
- E-Mail Address
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Leslie.Christoferson@us.af.mil
(Leslie.Christoferson@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Notice of Proposed Contract Action under the FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13 Simplified Acquisition Procedures. This notice is for information only; a solicitation will not be issued. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTATION. No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 334220 with a small business size standard of 1,250 employees. AFRL requires five (5) Man Portable Unit Generation 5 (MPU5) radio routers with associated hardware. The Government intends to negotiate a sole source contract with: Persistent Systems LLC., 303 5 th Ave. Suite 306, New York, NY 10016-6635. The Government has determined that no other source can meet this requirement as the MPU5 WaveRelay radio, manufactured by Persistent Systems, is an extremely capable tactical radio that offers unique features unavailable in other tactical communications systems. The Persistant Systems radios have the following specifications which no other available products incorporate: S-Band radio module Ethernet ports Audio Port + Push To Talk Voice + 16 Channels of Voice power connector + 3 USB ports Power over Ethernet ability + 10/100 Ethernet port FIPS 140-2 validation Suite B Algorithms HD Video Decoder/Encoder IP68 Rated, 3x3 MIMO Technology In addition, the MPU5 radio routers have interchangeable internal radio modules, of which are compatible with L-Band, S-Band and C-Band frequencies. The MPU5 is currently fielded and used by operational users daily. It is critical to ongoing testing that hardware identical to that of the operational users is utilized in order to predict and quantify performance. This product is critical to the Government's ability to develop, test and integrate software. Identical hardware to that which is currently in operation is essential to ensure operational compatibility and risk mitigation for transitioned software. If these products are not procured, the Government's ability to develop, test, and integrate software would be severely degraded. Furthermore, the ability to predict and quantify performance would be impaired. In order to implement an alternate platform the Government would experience a substantial duplication of cost not expected to be recovered through competition. This is a notice of proposed contract action and not a request for competitive proposals; however, all responsible sources may submit a capability statement or proposal, which shall be considered by the agency. All inquiries should be sent by email to Leslie Christoferson@us.af.mil. Responses must be submitted by the date/time listed on the notice. Any response to this notice must show clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government in future procurements. Responses received will be evaluated; however a determination by the Government not to compete the proposed procurement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Government anticipates an award date on or before 30 September 2018. A Sole Source Justification will be attached to the subsequent Notice of Award.
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