SOLICITATION NOTICE
59 -- UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE
- Notice Date
- 7/8/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 53560 Hull Street Bldg A33 Rm 1602W, San Diego CA 92152-5001
- ZIP Code
- 92152-5001
- Solicitation Number
- N66001-02-Q-0619
- Response Due
- 7/29/2002
- Archive Date
- 8/28/2002
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - MELISSA S DOLAN, Contract Specialist, 619-553-6336; Wayne S Johnson, Contract Officer, 619-553-9046
- E-Mail Address
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Contract Specialist
(dolanm@spawar.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation. Award will be made using FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquistion Procedures. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested, and a written solicitation will not be issued. Award will be made based on responses to this notice. Solicitation number N66001-02-Q-0615 is issued as a Request for Quote. Submit your response via fax to: Melissa Dolan (619) 553-1062, or email: dolanm@spawar.navy.mil. The anticipated award date is 1 AUG 2002. The government is seeking competitive bids for a Novel Unmanned Ground Vehicle Design to permit stepping, straddling, climbing, as well as rapid traversal across planar surfaces of various textures. Introduction: Small unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) of the conventional design suffer from several limitations. Among these are the propensity to high-center on objects such as rails and ridges, and immobility when inverted. In addition, the range of obstacle sizes that a UGV can negotiate is quite limited by the fixed dimensions of the vehicle. The UGV cannot penetrate orifices of dimension less than the breadth of the vehicle, while it cannot overcome obstacles of size greater than half the dimension reached by the center of gravity of the vehicle. Thus any UGV of fixed dimension will always be too large to enter some spaces and too small to climb over other objects or out of other spaces. To extend these ranges, it may be necessary to add degrees of freedom of motion to the vehicle that will, in effect, un-fix the vehicle morphology, altering its dimensions and center of gravity. Physical requirements: The essential idea is a single-person portable and operable, self-contained vehicle that can behaviorally and conformably adapt to most terrain conditions. The UGV must weight less than 14Kg. The UGV must be remotely controllable without a fixed tether, but may have automatic algorithms to facilitate balance and mobility over obstacles. The on-board energy for the UGV must be sufficient for operations in excess of one hour. The UGV must collect environmental information with forward video, physical contact, and stereo audio, and communicate that information back to an operator control unit, along with vehicle energy status, and vehicle motion parameters for all degrees of freedom. The UGV in total must be water proof to a depth of one meter. The UGV must have neither top-bottom, starboard-port, nor bow-stern physical or behavioral asymmetries. Operational requirements: All operations must be independent of other physical assistance, however, a human operator may assist with remote control commands. The UGV must be able to travel on planar surfaces, such as paved roads, at rates in excess of one meter per second. The UGV must be able to climb a flight of 10 steps with a step width of not greater than 100cm, a step rise of not less that 20cm, and a step depth of not greater than 30cm. The UGV must be able to mount, traverse, and dismount from a beam of irregular diameter ranging between 10cm and 20cm and length not less that 3m, suspended between two platforms with elevation variances from 0 to 45 degrees off the horizontal. The UGV must traverse mud, tall grass, underbrush, and rubble of scales comparable to the steps described above. Selection criteria: While price is a significant factor, award will be made based on technically acceptable, responsive small business responses, and may also be subject to the Navy RYG Program. RYG criteria is available upon request. Offerors are invited to submit their quotations for the design and prototype of a UGV that satisfies the above requirements. For a copy of the 'Design Concept', please send your request to dolanm@spawar.navy.mil. You are requested to provide performance history on the product you are proposing (if available). Include model numbers, places of performance, and contact information. All deliveries made under any resulting award will be to: Receiving Officer, SPAWAR SYSTEMSCENTER SAN DIEGO, 53605 Hull Street, San Diego, CA 92152. Technical questions may be addressed to Dr. Michael R. Blackburn: (619) 553-1904, FAX: (619) 553-6188, email: mike@s pawar.navy.mil. Note 1 applies to this solicitation. The applicable NAICS code is 335999, the size standard is 500 employees.
- Web Link
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Click on this link to access the SPAWAR Solicitation Page
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/USN/SPAWAR/SPAWARSYSCEN_San_Diego/N66001-02-Q-0619/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00112077-F 20020710/020708214421 (fbodaily.com)
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