U.S. Geological Survey, Branch Of Acquisition and Federal Assistance, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046

J -- SATELLITE MASTER EARTH STATION AND MICRO EARTH STATION MAINTENANCE POC Vicki Holland, Contracting Officer, (303)236-5900 ext 350 E-MAIL: USGS, CR, Acquisitions & Federal Assistance, vholland@usgs.gov. Concerns having the ability to furnish the services described herein are requested to give written notification (including the telephone number for a point of contact) to the procuring office above within forty-five (45) calendar days from the date of this synopsis. Salient characteristics: Extended warranty/full coverage maintenance of Master Earth Station (MES) equipment located at 1711 Illinois Street in Golden, CO, and of 66 Micro Earth Stations (uES) located throughout the contiguous United States. Performance period is from May 1997 through May of 1998 with 4 year options. Service must include telephone support, remote fault diagnosis, and the overnight exchange of components as needed. If problem cannot be remedied as outlined above, the contractor must dispatch a technician to Golden, CO, to repair within 24 hours. At least one on-site MES preventative maintenance trip will be scheduled per year. The existing satellite system comprising the MES and uES was acquired from Scientific-Atlanta in 1990. Much of the system operating software is proprietary and much of the hardware, including the burst demodulators, outlink modulators, fail-over redundancy, and uES digital processing unit are proprietary and manufactured by Scientific-Atlanta. Offerors will be required to have an intimiate knowledge of the satellite system from end-to-end, to have a spares inventory of critical MES components, to have uES spares pool, and depot repair facilties. Based on information available at this time, and in accordance with 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), implemented by FAR 6.302-1, the Government considers the item specified as a sole source from Scientific Atlanta, 420 N. Wickham Rd., Melbourne, FL, 32925, and proposes to negotiate a contract with that firm on that basis. However, should additional sources be identified, they will be considered. Firms who feel that they can furnish the required item or its functional equivalent (based upon the criteria specified herein) are invited to submit in writing an affirmative response to this announcement. An affirmative response would include literature, brochures and such other materials which correspond to the required items stated herein. This information will be evaluated and used to determine if competitive opportunities exist. Since no solicitation document exists, requests for such documents without accompanying information will be considered non-responsive to this request without further consideration. This notice may represent the Government's only official notice of this procurement. See Note 22. (0063)

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