PRESOL | A | The Army Test and Evaluation Command requires non-personal instrumentation related support services in 11 areas of instrumentation design, development, production, testing and support.

FBO DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 14, 2002 FBO #0074
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- The Army Test and Evaluation Command requires non-personal instrumentation related support services in 11 areas of instrumentation design, development, production, testing and support.

Notice Date: 2/12/2002
Notice Type: Solicitation Notice
Contracting Office: US Army ATEC Contracting Activity, ATTN: CSTE-CA, P.O. Box Y, Fort Hood, TX 76544-0770
ZIP Code: 76544-0770
Solicitation Number: DATM01-TOOLBOX
Response Due: 3/14/2002
Archive Date: 4/13/2002
Point of Contact: Theodore Panknin, (254) 288-9532
E-Mail Address: Email your questions to US Army ATEC Contracting Activity
(pankninted@otc.army.mil)
Small Business Set-Aside: N/A
Description: NA This is a sources sought synopsis. The Army Test and Evaluation Command requires non-personal instrumentation related support services in 11 areas of instrumentation design, development, production, testing and support. Specific information on each area f ollows. Anticipate award of one or more IDIQ contracts per area. Contractors may qualify for more than one area and be issued one or more contracts. Competition may be limited to SBSA if sufficient interest obtained under this synopsis and Market Resear ch from experienced firms. Anticipate award of base year plus four one-year options. Programs to be competed between selected vendors within a support area without further synopsis as either a cost or fixed-price effort as appropriate with award basis ei ther cost/price or best value. Successful contractors shall possess high level of knowledge/experience in instrumentation hardware/software to include ability to support/interface with ancillary/interface systems. Performance may be within and/or outsid e CONUS as stated in specific Delivery Order and may require security clearance up to Secret. Performance may include, but is not limited to: planning, research, design, development, prototype fabrication, laboratory and field test, certification, manufact ure, operator and maintenance training, documentation, upgrade, modification, third-party hardware/software integration, secure/encrypted communications, multiple systems (to include third-party) integration, and maintenance of hardware and software. A dra ft listing of support areas is as follows: 1. Instrumentation: Shall be able to design, develop and produce instrumentation hardware and software as required to support equipment operational testing requirements. May provide for Real Time Casualty Assessment instrumentation system for the Army' s force-on-force ground to ground, ground to air and air to ground weapon systems. Instrumentation to operate either alone or in conjunction with other instrumentation in support of both controlled and field environment testing under 24/7 operations for ex tended periods of time. Developed systems will possess ruggidized design to resist such conditions as airdrop, vibration, weather, and electromagnetic interference. Low weight and power consumption coupled with minimal size and zero interference with the system under test are normal mission needs. Instrumentation hardware/software shall be able to integrate with the system under test and third-party communications systems to include satellite and LAN/WAN (wire and wireless). Systems shall allow data int erface with system under test and related test systems such as fire simulators, kill simulators, area weapon simulators, biological and chemical simulators and mine simulators. May require use of electro-optics. Instrumentation to utilize a wide variety of data inputs to include secure data links. Instrumentation includes specialized equipment such as transducers, strain gages, roll rate gyros, pressure sensing devices to record data using on-board storage devices, single and three-axis accelerometers. As required systems shall be able to receive, date/time stamp, mark GPS location and any other specialized data into data stream, store, and transmit video and digital data, either regular or encrypted, based on manual entry, preset time or electronic sign al. As required, instrumentation shall possess the capability to simulate U.S and Threat systems and/or stimulate the system under test and/or other instrumentations systems based on manual, pre-set or transmitted signals. Developer shall be able to provid e operator and maintenance training and documentation and, as required, production drawings. Depot (factory) and field site calibration, repair and maintenance support may be required from the developer. 2. RF/Mobile Communication: Must be able to design and develop hardware and software for mobile communication system such as Motorola brick radios or trunking radio system used during the operational testing. Must be able to Design and develop hardware and software around land based and over the air communications systems, which includes expertise in radio frequency (RF) engineering and data link technology arc hitectures. Knowledge has to include a working relationship with transmitters, receivers, 802.11b, Bluetooth, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Carrier Detection Multiple Access (CDMA), antennas, voice transmissio n, video transmission, GPS, etc. Design, develop and produce hardware and software to provide communications and non-communications signal simulation using either manned or unmanned equipment. Design, develop and manufacture mobile communication and/or i nstrumentation vehicles able to operate autonomously (e.g. having own power, antenna, etc.). 3. Video to include Digital Video: Must be able to design and develop ruggedized digital video and digital video recording systems for Army's weapon systems. This includes, but not limited to, digital video man-print data collection and storage of data w ith capability to date/time/GPS location stamp data entries, develop mass storage solutions for both field and office of digital and video data, and provide for secure data storage and backup. 4. Digital Data Design and Collection: Must be able to design and develop hardware and software around radio and other types of buss digital data collection and the use of data busses. This includes MIL Std. 1553, RS-232, RS-422, 802.3 Local Area Networ k (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), 802.XX, etc. and all protocols such as 188-220, Point to Point Protocol (PPP), Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Transmission Control Protocol -Interment Protocol (TCP-IP) (all the link layers), Fire-Wire, etc. Must have a working knowledge in signal processing technology in order to design and develop state-of-the-art data collection systems. This includes the ability to design and develop Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Digital Signal Processing (DSP) a nd Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and/or software that are part of their capability. Must have a working knowledge in the design and development of specialized systems using sophisticated digital data coding techniques. This includes techniques in Forward Error Correction (FEC) such as Hamming and Reed-Soloman; other techniques such as Viterbi, trellis, etc to minimize packet or bit errors. Shall have a working knowledge of encryption of wireless and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) OC-3 LANS. 5. Scenario Support and Simulation/Stimulation Modeling: Shall have experience and expertise to provide the Government with expert advice and support relative to instrumentation employment and use during test and evaluation scenario development and execu tion. Shall have the expertise and experience relative to major, complex system testing to assist the Government in the planning, design, interface and development of simulation, stimulation and modeling hardware and software to either general or specific applications. 6. The contractor shall be able to design and perform field modifications and retrofits to instrumentation hardware and software. The contractor shall have a demonstrated ability to design and implement modifications of instrumentation in a field environ ment with emphasis on successful mission completion within set, inflexible constraints such as time or performance parameters. 7. Electronic Warfare Area Expertise Support: The contractor shall possess the expertise and security clearances necessary to examine electronic warfare test requirements and develop hardware and software to meet those requirements as appropriate. 8. Have Knowledge of current military tactical systems both combat and communications: Shall have a working knowledge of US military tactical systems and philosophies as it applies to processes such as military operations, Real T ime Casualty Assessment (RTCA), the Digitized Army, and military terrestrial and satellite communications systems. This includes being able to interface instrumentation systems to tactical systems. 9. The contractor shall have a working knowledge in the design and development of specialized software and a demonstrated ability to create and compile original software code as well as modify existing code. Personnel must be able to write code for applic ation-oriented processes in C++, JAVA, ADA, programming reconfigurable logic (DSP), etc. Contractor shall be versed in the use of optimized Operating Systems tailored to specific applications. 10. Independent verification, validation and certification of test instrumentation, hardware and software, for systems themselves plus interfaces with other test and non-test instrumentation (e.g. the system under test) and ancillary equipment. Provide i nformation assurance testing. 11. Laboratory support for instrumentation testing, both hardware and software, under a wide variety of climatic (e.g. heat, cold, humidity) and operational (e.g. vibration, shock, electronic interference, mud) environments and conditions. Request interested firms e-mail the following to ATEC Contracting Activity at pankninted@otc.army.mil: Firm name, Firm address, Point of contact for questions (include phone, fax, e-mail), Firm size (e.g. LB, SB, SDB, women-owned, hub zone), Area(s) inter ested in, and any comment as to overall requirement or specific area's content/scope. Please limit attachments to no more than five (5) pages. Optional - synopsis of expertise and experience for each of support the areas of interest identified above.
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Place of Performance: Address: US Army ATEC Contracting Activity ATTN: CSTE-CA, P.O. Box Y Fort Hood TX; Zip Code: 76544-0770; Country: US
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A -- The Army Test and Evaluation Command requires non-personal instrumentation related support services in 11 areas of instrumentation design, development, production, testing and support.