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A -- DIGITAL SPEECH STANDARDS SOL FY7620-96-07107 POC Gino F. Cascieri, Contract Specialist, ESC/PKRB, (617) 377-2623, Robert W. Tyrrell, Contracting Officer, ESC/PKRB, (617) 377-2930. Research and Development sources are sought in support of the Rome Laboratory's INFOSEC Technology Office (RL/ERC-1) to conduct Listen Sessions for the evaluation of digital speech communication systems. Two hundred seventy (270) Listening Sessions are required over a period of twenty nine (29) months. The following minimum testing requirements must be used to conduct the Listening Sessions. 1) Mean Opinion Score (MOS), 2) Degraded Mean Opinion Score (DMOS), 3) Diagnostic Rhyme Test (DRT), 4) Communicability Test, and 5) Speaker Recognizabiltiy Test. Listening Sessions are to be conducted at Rome Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA. Facilities at Rome Laboratory include listener test sound rooms, sound chambers for simulating operational environments, analog & digital audio recording/reproduction equipment, Spectral Dynamics (SD360/350) Spectrum Analyzer, and noise and input tape libraries. Offerors interested in documenting their capabilities to perform this work should reference Purchase Request FY76209607107 in responding to the Deputy for Small Business, Attn: ESC/BC, Mr. Alan Hart, 275 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2818. Information on file at ESC/BC must be supplemented to document the capabilities in the above stated areas. Firms should also indicate their status if qualified as socially or economically disadvantaged. Each offeror responding to submit with its reply a name and telephone number for a point of contact. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Claude E. Mesamore, Jr., ESC/IG at (617) 377-5106. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes, does not constitute an IFB or RFP, and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government. Closing date for submission of responses is thirty (30) days from the publication date of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 25. (0325)

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