COASTSYSTA Dahlgren Division, NSWC, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001

39 -- REAL-TIME OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION WINCH SOL N61331-96-R-0037 DUE 062896 POC Mary Kitchen, Contract Specialist, (904)235-5389 Carol A. Dreger, Contracting Officer, (904)234-4863. The Coastal Systems Station (CSS) has a requirement for 15 real-time oceanographic instrumentation winches and suporting technical data. The winch shall be capable of deploying and retrieving the Battle Space Profiler (BSP) in the natural and manmade environments onboard the MCM and MHC Class Ships. The winch shall also provide the means to pass real-time data from the BSP to a shipboard interface via electromechanical cable and slip ring assembly. The BSP is a Seabird Electronics, Inc. SBE-19 pumped CTD equipped with externally-mounted sensors, including an altimeter, OBS-3 and transmissometer. The BSP is housed in a 40-inch stainless steel frame. The BSP can be operated from internal batteries or externally-supplied power. The BSP weighs approximately 50 pounds in air and 22 pounds in water. The winch shall be capable of deploying and recovering the BSP from 0 to 350 feet per minute at full spool with a maximum line pull of 500 pounds at bare spool. The winch shall drum capacity to hold 3280 feet of 0.250 nominal electromechanical cable. The winches shall be a COTS, DC electric, single horizontal drum winch assembled as a complete unit, excluding power, on a mounting base. The winch shall be equipped with a diamond screw, chain and sprocket level wind assembly, slip ring assembly, and an electromechanical cable with connector. The winch envelope dimensions shall not exceed 35''h x 50''1 x 50''w and 1000 pounds, including cable. The winch shall be capable of operating on 440V, 60 Hz, 3 phase, ungrounded power. All materials shall be nonmagnetic except those items, components, or sub-assemblies that serve an electrical function or require mechanical strength. The winch technical data package shall include engineering drawings, operations and maintenance manuals, parts identification lists, and installation and checkout procedures. The winches will be required over a three (3) year period. Requests for the solicitation shall be addressed to the Contract Specialist specified above. No verbal requests will be accepted. This solicitation is a 100% SBSA, SIC 3531, Note 1 applies. --A single award will result from this solicitation. -- No Telephone requests will be accepted. -- Only written requests for this solicitation will be accepted. --However, we will accept requests for this solicitation via facsimile, at (904)234-4251, Attn: Mary Kitchen, Code SC12. All requests should include the company's cage code. (0131)

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