SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- MARKET SURVEY - ADVANCED GENERAL AVIATION RESEARCH SIMULATOR (AGARS) UPGRADE
- Notice Date
- 1/24/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, AMQ-310 Aeronautical Center (AMQ)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DTFAAC-05-R-00007-3979
- Response Due
- 1/31/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/2/2005
- Description
- The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute's (CAMI) has a requirement for the replacement of the in-cockpit displays in the Advanced General Aviation Research Simulator (AGARS), the computers driving those displays, and the graphics editing software used to create the interactive cockpit graphics. Specifically this market survey is issued to inquire if there are interested SEDB/8a companies. To be qualified as a Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Business (SEDB), your company must be a small business concern expressly certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) for participation in the SBA's 8(A) program and which meets the following criteria at the time of release of the initial SIR or public announcement. (1) The offeror is in conformance with the 8(a) support limitation set forth in its approved business plan; and (2) The offeror is in conformance with the Business Activity Targets set forth in its approved business plan or any remedial action direct by the SBA. If you are an SEDB/8(a) concern and are capable of performing this upgrade, please notify Sandra Fink, Contracting Officer, via e-mail: sandra.fink@faa.gov. Potential offerors must meet the following technical requirements. The following are considered Pass/Fail criteria. All proposals must meet these requirements to be considered: (1.) All proposed computers shall be based upon personal-computer architecture. For purposes of this solicitation, personal-computer architecture shall be defined as all variants of Pentium, Athlon, Xeon, Itanium, and Opteron based systems. (2.) For the appearance of continuous motion, the proposal shall provide a guarantee that displayed update rates (the rate at which changes in displayed data can be depicted) for generated graphical cockpit instrumentation shall meet or exceed 30 Hz. (3.) The proposal shall include a provision for graphics-editing software that supports creating, editing, and integrating functional graphics into the cockpit displays. The proposal package must include a demonstration of the editing software's capabilities. This may be accomplished using recorded video (tape/disk) or by making a temporary demonstration copy of the software available for evaluation. (4.) The proposal shall include a provision for software-familiarization training for the graphics editing package, and shall provide an example of this training, in whole or in sufficient part for evaluation, so that adequacy may be determined. (5.) The proposal shall include a provision for the graphics created by the editing software to be executed under Linux and linked to variables broadcast via UDP from the main simulator computer. (6.) The proposal shall include as a task the porting of the current Highway in the sky display code to the new head down display computer(s). (7.) All proposed CRT-based displays shall have a minimum resolution of 100 lines per inch and a minimum refresh frequency of 60 Hz. (8.) All proposed displays shall support full color graphics. (9.) All proposed displays shall be viewable from plus and minus 80 degrees from the centerline orthogonal to the display surface. The proposal must include the manufacturer and model number of all displays for verification purposes. (10.) The maximum brightness reduction allowable at maximum off axis viewing shall be no greater than 20 percent for all proposed displays. The proposal must include the manufacturer and model number of all displays for verification purposes. (11.) All proposed displays shall be PC compatible using either a standard 15 pin DSUB connector for analog displays or a standard DVI connector for digital displays. (12.) All proposed cockpit displays shall be compatible with existing cockpit overlay hardware (i.e., shall be capable of depicting all current Piper Malibu instrumentation in its present locations and must not mechanically interfere with panel overlays). The space behind the instrument-panel overlays is currently occupied by three SGI displays model CM2187ME. One of the displays is mounted in portrait orientation while the other two are mounted in landscape orientation. (13.) The proposed remote displays shall present/repeat all cockpit displays and all remote displays must be viewable simultaneously. (14.) The proposed remote displays shall match or exceed the resolution of the proposed cockpit displays. (15.) Proposed remote displays shall have individual brightness and contrast controls. (16.) All proposed displays shall be Commercial Off The Shelf products (17.) The proposed remote viewing displays, as a group, must fit in the space at the Experimenter Operator Station (EOS) presently occupied by the current remote displays. The shelf space currently occupied is 69 inches across and 20 1/2 inches deep. (18.) The proposal must include the provision to select different graphical presentations on the head down cockpit displays from the menus currently being used on the Experimenter/Operator Station and from the menus in the Experimenter/Operator Station scenario editor software.
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- Record
- SN00738908-W 20050126/050124211702 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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