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N -- PROVIDE, INSTALL AND TEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE UPGRADES SOL DACW61-99-R-0013 DUE 032699 POC Contact Gwendolyn V. McBride, 215-656-6917 Modify the notice submitted on 9 February 1999, Submission No. 296658 for the Installation of Equipment onboard the Survey Vessel DOBRIN as follows. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District intends to negotiate a contract on a sole source basis to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the mission of installing and testing hardware and software upgrades to their inter-grated hydrographic survey system onboard the Survey Vessel DOBRIN. The proposed acquisition will require SAIC to provide and install a Windows NT version of Survey Planning and Analysis on a Pentium II Workstation. The workstation shall enhance software user interfaces for familiar point and click interaction. The processing station shall contain all hardware and software necessary for planning, editing and generating standard multi-beam data products. The hardware and software shall be provided with a minimum of 3-year warranty and shall consist of at least a Pentium II/400Mhz Mini-tower with 256MB RAM;17-inch Color Monitor; 9.1 GB hard drive, 10/100 Ethernet, DDS-3 Tape Drive, 14/32X CD ROM; ISS-2000 v2 Survey Analysis and Survey Planning Software Packages. The contractor will also provide system upgrades to the SAIC Hydrobat 2005 Integrated Hydrographic Survey System (IHSS)while maintaining the current SAIC IHSS warranty. At a minimum, the upgrades shall include upgrade of the IHSS to use vessel RPM to perform dynamic corrections on real-time depth measurements to account for vessel squat; provide and install a hull mounted surface sound velocity sensor to monitor and alert the operator to changes in sound velocity profiles; upgrade the IHSS to add vertical geodetic transformations to the UNIX-bases geodetic utility; upgrade the IHSS to add shaded relief and 30D visualization capabilities to survey analysis; provide and install C-Map electronic charts for the UNIX; and upgrade the POS/MV-320 to add Real Time Kinematics ("On-the-fly") GPS measurement capability. Interested firms desiring consideration have 15 days from publication in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) to submit their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose for determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after 15 days without the required information will be considered non-responsive to the snopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. All responsible sources may submit a proposal, which shall be considered by the agency. See Note 22. Posted 02/10/99 (W-SN297082). (0041)

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