MODIFICATION
N -- Fully Intergrated Voice Communication System
- Notice Date
- 1/12/2004
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service (FTS), FTS (Technical Services Branch) 4TRE, 401 West Peachtree Street, Suite 2700, Atlanta, GA, 30308
- ZIP Code
- 30308
- Solicitation Number
- 4TCO80047003
- Response Due
- 1/16/2004
- Point of Contact
- Robert Spratling, Contracting Officer, Phone 404-331-7840, Fax 404-331-3628,
- E-Mail Address
-
robert.spratling@gsa.gov
- Description
- This is to note that propsoals are due no later than 4pm, EST, on Friday, January 16, 2004. This date was noted as the offical response date in amendment 2, but a typo of Saturday January 17th appeared in the amendment description. may be considered unrealistic and unreasonable, may receive no further consideration. The Government will evaluate technical proposals based on the factors of past experience and technical approach with past experience being slightly more important than technical approach. Past experience will be evaluated according to the extent to which the offeror’s documented past experience is similar to the nature, complexity, and scope of work described in the Statement of Work. The Government will evaluate each offeror’s technical approach for completeness, the extent to which it demonstrates that it will meet requirements in an effective manner, and qualifications of those assigned (if applicable) to carry out the technical approach being offered. The offeror shall describe its approach for meeting the requirements of the SOW and how it plans to conduct the work. To support the past experience evaluation, please list the dollar value of similar project, timeframe completed, brief description of your firm’s role in project, etc. Technical proposals should be limited to no more than 10 pages. The clause at FAR 52.212-4,Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition 11. The clause at FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders--Commercial Items, applies to this solicitation. Specifically, the following clauses cited are applicable to this solicitation: FAR 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; FAR 52.222-42. Proposals must be emailed to robert.spratling@gsa.gov. Proposals are required to be received no later than 4pm EST, January 17, 2004. Here are the list of questions and answers reveived to date. The Government does not anticipate taking further questions at this time. 1. Per the solicitation KSC utilizes and is providing Motorola CM 200 Radios for UHF/VHF operation. To provide commonality of parts for KCS can FTS provide us with the exact radio P/N's that KCS has purchased? If the P/N's can not be provided can FTS or KCS inform us if the are using the 1-25 Watt or 25-45 watt radios? CM 200 is our only PN, They are 1-25 watt radios 2. Are the CM200 radios 4 or 32 channel capable? One Channel per radio 3. The 32 Channel DVD Digital Voice recorder for Installation. Is this GFE or is this to be provided as part of the proposal? 32 Channel DVD recorder is to be provided by offerer 4. The LACB backup radios are assumed to be located at LACB per the solicitation? Will KCS be providing a local connection of the radio where the switch is located in the equipment room of the tower? The local connection is at the LACB 5. Can FTS provide the p/n and manufacture of the LACB existing radios or is it assumed they are also Motorola CM200? LACB existing radios are CM200’s 6. The GFE provided tunable antenna is being provided for one tunable radio. Is this radio separate of the 8 A/G radio systems? Tunable radio is separate from the other 8 radios and will need its own antenna 7. What type of connectivity is provided between the two facilities, if any? Do you know if they currently have a copper cable or fiber optic cable that would be available for connectivity between the two facilities for the console system interface? Copper is available, Copper connectivity is in-place 8. What type of radios is KSC currently using as their backup radios? The RFP identifies GFE equipment as CM-200 radios for their primary usage. Are the KSC radios also CM-200 type radios? CM-200 both Primary and Backup 9. Will existing radio systems be replaced under this RFP? The RFP identifies 8 new radio systems to be installed. NO 10. Where are the antennas to be installed? Is the customer looking for the antennas to be mounted on the tower cab roof or is there an existing antenna farm? If antenna farm is used, what is approximate distance from the tower facility to the antenna farm? Antennas to be installed on tower cab roof. 11. If antennas are to be mounted on tower cab roof, what is distance from equipment room location to tower cab roof? This must be known in order to determine proper amount of new heliax cable for radio installations. Also, how much space is available for mounting antennas on roof? This will determine if single or dual antennas are required due to space limitations. Tower is laid out as follows, Tower Cab, Administrative room below, Tower equipment room below. Estimate 75-100 Heliax run. Single antennas preferred . Adequate roof room available 12. Some of the phone lines identified in RFP state “3 Point to Point telephones”. Please clarify if this means three (3) commercial DTMF circuits or if this is automatic ring down (ARD) circuits or if these are a 2-digit dial capability. Telephone requirements include 3 direct lines to Fire Station, Launch Control Center and Weather Station, Shout lines to 4 FAA facilities, Standard 2 digit dial capability to FAA facilities, and 3 commercial lines. 13. What type of power (AC) will be provided? Do you require emergency power (UPS) as part of this RFP? Standard commercial AC power, Yes, UPS is requested for voice switch 14. Number of Primary Radios to be connected to Voice switch Primary radios 8 15. Number of Backup Radios to be connected to Voice switch (LACB) Back up radios 8 16. Number of Telephone Lines (CO) to Voice switch Telephone Lines 3 17. Number of Muti-point ring down lines (SS1/4) to Voice switch Ring down lines 3 18. Number of Ring down lines to Voice switch Ring down to voice switch 3 19. Is tunable radio to be provided by NASA - Yes 20. 20. Is tunable antenna to be provided by NASA - Yes 21. Is fiber optic available between tower and LACB - NoThe solicitation is referring to cancelled previous solicitation with pointing to the two received than, two proposals. Is the content than was the same as the current solicitation or new requirements are now in effect? Content remains the same. The revision was to add clarity and detail 22. The solicitation and response to question # 1 respond on CM-200 as having 1 to 25W transmit capability. The current manufacturer data sheet identifies the CM-200 as 10W transmitter capable only (for both the VHF and UHF models). Please confirm that 10W are acceptable. Motorola CM200 10W radios are acceptable 23. The response on number of requested new radios in answer # 9 states 8 new radios. In the solicitation the numbers may be interpreted as only 5 (as 2 VHF and 1UHF are described as GFE). Please clarify how many VHF radios are installed at the KSC Tower, how many UHF radios are installed at the KSC Tower, and how many VHF and UHF are installed today at the LACB site? 8 total radio systems to be installed at the Tower. Of these, 2 VHF radios and transmitters will be GFE. 1 UHF radio and transmitter will be GFE. Offerer must obtain remaining radios and all 8 antennas and install all 8 systems. In addition, Offerer must install tunable radio and tunable radio antenna both of which will be GFE. 24. The solicitation list 3 PTP and 6 FAA Shout lines, where the clarifications # 12, list 3 PTP, 4 FAA lines and 3 Commercial (for total of 10) and answers #16 , 17 & 18 count 3 CO lines , 3 SS1/4 lines and 3 ring down lines accordingly (total of 9)- please clarify. Clarification as follows: NASA requests a) 3 point to point lines b) 4 FAA shout lines c) 2 local shout lines d) 3 Commercial lines - This is consistent with solicitation with the exception of 3 commercial lines which were inadvertently omitted. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (12-JAN-2004). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 12-FEB-2004. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Zip Code: 32899
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 32899
- Record
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