58 -- SARSAT SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS LOCAL USER TERMINALS

Notice Date

July 13, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/OFA/AGFS/AMD -- OFA51, 1305 East West Highway -- Station 7604, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

ZIP Code

20910

Solicitation Number

52-DGNE-1-90053

Point of Contact

Edward F. Tennant, Jr., Contracting Officer, telephone (301) 713-0823

Description

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a requirement for third generation ground stations (called Local User Terminals or LUTs) for the Search-and-Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) program. NOAA plans to acquire between 10 and 12 Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Search-and-Rescue LUTs (LEOLUTs) and between 0 and 4 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Search-and-Rescue LUTs (GEOLUTs). Additionally, NOAA requires a warranty of at least one year on the LEOLUTs and GEOLUTs, along with installation, training, spares, support equipment, and documentation for the LEOLUTs and GEOLUTs. Further, NOAA requires maintenance and technical support of the LEOLUTs and GEOLUTs for a period of up to eight years after conclusion of the warranty period on the LEOLUTs and GEOLUTs. Solicitation 52-DGNE-1-90053 will be issued on or about July 31, 2001 and will close on or about August 30, 2001. Requests for copies of the solicitation should be submitted in writing to the attention of Ed Tennant at the header address or fax 301-713-0806. The solicitation may be accessed at http://www.rdc.noaa.gov/~amd/SOLINDEX.HTML once the solicitation is issued. See Note 12.

Record

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