U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

58 -- RECEIVER TRANSMITTERS AND ASSOCIATED SPARE PARTS SOL DAAB07-99-R-C752 DUE 041599 POC Higgins, James, Contract Specialist, 732-427-1640 and Loesch, Kevin, Contracting Officer, 732 532-1577 WEB: CECOM ACQUISITION CENTER BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PAGE, http://acbop.mommouth.army.mil. E-MAIL: James Higgins, Contract Specialist, higgins-1@mail1.monmouth.army.mil. This prposed acquisition is a Request for Proposal for Army, Marine Corps and Air National Guard requirements for Enhanced Position Reporting System (EPLRS) Receiver Transmitters (RTs) and associated provisioning spare parts, based upon the latest approved acquisition objective for each service. EPLRS serves as a digital data communications backbone system serving Army echelons at Brigade and below. Sole source negotiation with Raytheon Systems Company (formerly Hughes Aircraft Company)is proposed for this Acquisition pursuant to FAR 6.302-1(b), Only One Responsible Source. The Government does not possess adaquate technical data to define the performance or interface requirements for EPLRS that precludes a competitive acquisition. Raytheon Systems Company is the developer and manfacturer of the various configurations of EPLRS. This acquisition will call for a quantity of 1500 NSN 5820-01-457-0012 Automiated Data Distribution System Interface (ADDSI) type EPLRS RTs for Army requirements under a two (2) year multi-year arrangement for FY99 and FY00. Req1uirements for other customers, including 423 ADDSI type EPLRS RTs for Marine Corps requirements, 4 ADDSI type EPLRS RTs for PM Air Traffic Control (ATC) requirements, 20 ADDSI type EPLRS RTs for Navy requirements and 22 NSN 5820-01-457-2955 Situational Awareness Data Link (SADL)1553 type EPLRS RTs for Air National Guard (ANG) requirements will be acquired at time of Contract award. The delivery of RTs under this acquisition shall commence fifteen (15) months after contract award at a mothly productiopn rate of 120 RTs per month. Delivery destinations are undetermined at this time given the latest EPLRS Fielding Schedule. This acquisition will include options for FY00 and FY 01 to acquire up to an additional 3,000 EPLRS RTs of either ADDSI type or SADL 1553 type configuration. The proposed contract action for this acquisition is a new work modification to the current full rate productioncontract for EPLRS RTs, Contract No. DAAB07-97-C-C775. The Government willconsider any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation. The U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) has established a Business Opportunities Page (BOP) website to allow electronic transmittal of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Invitation for Bids (IFBs) from CECOM to Industry. All parties interested in doing business with CECOM are invited to access, operate, send and receive information from the Business Opportunity Page at (http://acbop.monmouth.army.mil). Upon accessing this webpage, click on CECOM Business Opportunities. You may access potential CECOM Business Opportunities by simply typing "guest" for the login ID and password. Registration for a user ID and password will only be necessary when you are considering the submission of proposals CECOM through the BOP. For CD-ROM drawings or other data, contact the identified Contracting Officer via their e-mail. Offers and Bids shall be submitted in hard copy at the time and place specified in the solicitation. No bids shall be submitted directly to the Contracting Officer. The CECOM Acquisition Center's EBB is closed. Posted 03/16/99 (W-SN309184). (0075)

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