Department of Defense, Television-Audio Support Activity (T-ASA), March Contracting, 1363 Z Street, March ARB, CA 92518-2717

58 -- PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION OF DIGITAL AUDIO STORAGE AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM SOL MDA113-98-R0005 POC MSGT Karen Langdon, Contract Specialist, (909)413-2231, or Artimae Shepherd, Contracting Officer, (909)413-2303 The contractor shall furnish all hardware, software, proprietary system cabling, repair parts kits, spare assemblies, extender boards, drawing documentation, repair manuals, operation manuals, training, support, ancillary equipment, and installation to provide a Digital Audio Storage and Automation System to the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service-Broadcast Center (AFRTS-BC) located at March Air Reserve Base (March ARB), California. The Digital Audio Storage and Automation System (hereafter referred to as The System) shall initially control twelve separate formats, but must be capable of expansion to meet future requirements via compatible control units. All formats running on The System shall be controlled by industry standard "triggers" or dry relay contact closures provided by both a satellite music provider and/or external automation controller, i.e. general purpose interface( GPI) control of the Government owned Alamar Master Radio Automation System. All formats must be capable of providing industry standard "triggers" or dry relay contact closures to tone encoders to produce tone for control of other automation systems in the AFRTS network. The contractor shall provide a commercial off-the-shelf system, or a system comprised of commercial off-the-shelf components which meet the government minimum needs. The contractor shall deliver a minimum of seventeen workstations, central storage redundant file servers, subject to differences in contractors approach to the requirements of the statement of work, and any necessary hardware and software for installation. Each of the twelve On-Air format will have its own workstation. In addition, the System shall include four production workstations and one system administrator work station. All workstations shall be capable of accessing the System's central storage drives and/or server to control all system functions. The system administrator workstation shall have an external 56 Kbps or faster modem for external control of the System, installation of manufacturer's system software upgrades and remote system troubleshooting. Central server units shall be configured to record and store broadcast audio materials to include but not limited to: Public Service Announcements (PSA), and DoD announcements, news and news features; liners; and DJ announcements onto computer hard drives. The servers will, on command, be capable of playback of individual audio files from the storage drives. The System shall provide an integrated traffic system for scheduling of announcements. It shall employ internal software and/or hardware methodologies that provide for automatic file selection for play to air from the AFRTS-BC inventory. The System shall be configured with redundant servers. A tape drive data backup system with a tape changer feature is required. The entire system shall be interconnected via a 100Mbps local Area Network (LAN). The Government will provide all ancillary audio and GPI control cabling for the System inputs and outputs to a central demarcation point using government provided cabling terminal blocks. The Contractor shall provide the audio and GPI control cabling from the System connectors to the central demarcation point terminal blocks. The Contractor shall install the System LAN cabling within the AFRTS-BC facility based on government-provided drawings showing system unit locations. The Contractor will install and integrate all components of The System and conduct on site acceptance testing and training. All requests for copies of the solicitation must be submitted in writing at the above address or FAXED to (909)413-2432. The solicitation will issued on or about 26 Nov 97 with a response date 30 days thereafter. (0310)

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