SOLICITATION NOTICE
H -- CONTRACT EXTENSION: GROUND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & DEPOT SUPPORT
- Notice Date
- 5/11/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Acquisition and Grants Office, SSMC4 - Room 7601/OFA61 1305 East West Highway, 7th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-GSEDS-EXT-5-11-05
- Response Due
- 5/27/2005
- Archive Date
- 6/11/2005
- Description
- This synopsis provides notice that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to extend their current contract with Harris Corporation, Harris Technical Service Corporation, for the continued support of the Ground Systems Engineering and Depot Support contract, until a new contract is awarded. This interim extension will provide the continuation of services and support now provided to NOAA and the Department of Defense (DOD) by the contractor. The extension is planned for nine months at $3M. The contract entails, in part, system engineering and maintenance, most recently upgrades to obsolete legacy equipment, ground support, hardware support and software support, including component supply, repair, testing, maintenance, upgrades, and other technical support of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the Windsat-Coriolis satellite. The DMSP satellites collect and disseminate global visible and infrared cloud data in support of worldwide operations and high priority programs. The global data must be provided in a timely manner to users at the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) and Fleet Numerical Meteorological Operations Center (FNMOC). Each DMSP satellite has a 101 minute, sun-synchronous near-polar orbit at an altitude of 830km above the surface of the earth. The visible and infrared sensors (OLS) collect images across a 3000km swath, providing global coverage twice per day. The combination of day/night and dawn/dusk satellites allows monitoring of global information such as clouds every 6 hours. The microwave imager (MI) and sounders (T1, T2) cover one half the width of the visible and infrared swath. These instruments cover polar regions at least twice and the equatorial region once per day. The space environment sensors (J4, M, IES) record along-track plasma densities, velocities, composition and drifts. There are currently 6 operational DMSP satellites on orbit. The DMSP ground system network is an earth based command, telemetry, and data processing system providing all functions for the state of health maintenance, communications, sensor payload data retrieval and dissemination, and launch and early orbit support for the DMSP constellation. The ground segment consists of the Suitland Operations Control Center (SOCC), Suitland, MD; Environmental Satellite Operations Center (ESOC), Schriever AFB, CO; the Payload Integration Test Facility (PITF), Vandenberg AFB, CA; AFSCN tracking stations at Hawaii, Thule Greenland, New Boston, NH; NOAA tracking stations in Fairbanks, AK, and Wallops, VA; user sites at AFWA, Omaha, NE, and FNMOC, at Monterey, CA. Other operational support nodes include Onizuka AFB, CA and the DMSP SPO at Los Angeles AFB, CA. Future operational nodes may include McMurdo Ground Station, Antarctica, and the Svalsat Ground Station in Svalbard, Norway. The Government requires Level 1, 2, and 3 for depot level support on all operational and spare hardware. The Government requires a ground segment mission reliability of 99.8%. The ground segment operational availability rate will be 99.7% with a mean time between critical failures of the ground segment greater than 328 hours. The mean time to repair the ground segment is less than 1 hour and the maximum corrective maintenance time of all repair actions does not exceed 3 hours. SERVICES INFORMATION Required services include technical support to all DMSP equipment at any site. Technical support includes development, integration, and preventive and corrective maintenance. DMSP requires supply storage at the Contractor depot location for all depot items. The Contractor furnishes all facilities, parts, materials, data, equipment and services. In order to meet the timely data delivery requirements, the Program requires on-call emergency technical support to any DMSP ground segment site, system engineering and analysis of ground segment equipment, configuration management, and feasibility studies for system enhancements and modifications. The Program also requires sustaining engineering, system performance analysis, and test support. Because of the use of legacy equipment, component and operational system modifications are required. Modifications include design, develop, fabricate, test, produce, manufacture, install modification kits and update all required technical documentation. Support for the DMSP ground segment include interaction and in-depth knowledge of the AFSCN, access to AFSCN sites, and support at AFSCN technical meetings. DMSP support includes launch and early orbit support for DMSP spacecraft, providing ground system expertise and on-site support to the operations command center in Suitland, MD. Interaction with Government and other contractors, as well as independent work, for launch and early orbit anomaly resolution related to the DMSP ground system is required. A SECRET clearance is necessary for this effort. Engineering labor categories include software, system, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and quality assurance. Other labor categories may include scientist, program management, administrative, and logistics. Interested persons may identify to the Contracting Officer their interest and capability to satisfy the Government's requirement within 15 days of this notice. See numbered notes 25 and 26.
- Place of Performance
- Address: SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED AT CONTRACTOR'S FACILITY AND MULTIPLE GOVERNMENT SITES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING HAWAII AND ALASKA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN00804611-W 20050513/050511211939 (fbodaily.com)
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