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D -- CONCATENATED SPEECH SOL 40AANW808131S DUE 080798 POC William Voitk, CO, LaMar Carlson CS 301-713-0839 E-MAIL: Lamar Carlson, Lamar.Carlson@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Systems Operations, Silver Spring, MD, intends to negotiate on a noncompetitive basis with Communications and Power Engineering (CPE), Camarillo, CA to support the National Weather Service in investigating the feasibility of adding a concatenated speech capability to the operational NOAA Weather Radio Console Replacement System (CRS), and possible development of a working prototype. The CRS is an integrated set of computer hardware and software (some of which is proprietary to CPE) which will automatically and concurrently ingest data, interpret and process the data, and produce output to the operator and up to thirteen separate NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) transmitters. To meet NWS project milestones, this feasibility study and possible prototype development must be completed within four months. Vendors who believe that they can meet this requirement are required to submit in writing an affirmative response demonstrating they have all of the following: 1) extensive operational experience with design, development and implementation of text-to-speech systems currently used in the CRS (DECTalk) and deployed at NWS forecast offices, and concatenated speech technology; 2) expertise in the development of software for automating NWR broadcasts with operational application of custom C code, developed by CPE and application of proprietary CPE software, Secure Network Queue Manager(SNQM); 3) demonstrated experience in the documentation and implementation of operational software systems using UNIXWare and 4) knowledge and expertise in development and integration of prototype PC-based systems, such as CRS, using custom hardware and software. Vendors must be able to apply these abilities without delay in the feasibility study and prototype development. Offerors who believe they can satisfy the requirement must demonstrate their ability in writing. All written responses must include a written narrative statement of capability, including detailed technical information and other technical literature demonstrating the ability to meet the above requirements. The response must be sufficient to permit agency analysis to establish a bona fide capability to meet the requirements. Failure to submit documentation will result in the Government proceeding as stated above. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. A fixed-price, purchase order is contemplated for this effort. Affirmative written responses must be received no later than 45 days after publication to this synopsis. See Note 22. (0174)

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