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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 26, 2006 FBO #1581
MODIFICATION

58 -- Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite communications system

Notice Date

3/24/2006
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

NAICS

334220 — Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
 

Contracting Office

General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service (FTS), FTS, 7T-5 Oklahoma, 819 Taylor Street, Room 14A02, Fort Worth, TX, 76102
 

ZIP Code

76102
 

Solicitation Number

7TF-06-0004
 

Response Due

3/31/2006
 

Point of Contact

Elaine Lacker, Contracting Officer, Phone (817) 978-6142, Fax (817) 978-4739,
 

E-Mail Address

elaine.lacker@gsa.gov
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Total Small Business
 

Description

This amendment number 1 is issued to extend the response date from 3/24/2006 to on or before 1 PM (CST) 3/31/2006. This amendment also posts questions and answers; additional questions and answers will be posted at a later time. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: 1. Please confirm requirement for satellite coverage to Alaska. ANSWER: The coverage area for the equipment is North America, Alaska, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 2. Question IRT section II. Deliverables, 2. Network HUB – “Shall be a fixed installation at Fort Sam Houston”. Will 3.8M antenna be roof or ground mount and how close to actual communication facility, (i.e. building)? ANSWER: 3.8 dish should be mounted on roof and be able to be reposition. 3. Requirements paragraph I. Overview – one sentence states “simultaneous uplink channel available bandwidth of 2Mbps from each of the two deployed terminals”. Last sentence states “system configured for 2Mbps uplink and 3Mbps downlink”. These sentences are inconsistent. Please confirm last sentence should read 4Mbps uplink (two remotes x 2Mbps). ANSWER: The deployable systems need to be able to run at data rate of 2 meg uplink and 3 meg downlink. 4. Please specify the required link availability; typical ku-band links have nominal availability of 99.5% at the worst case location (e.g. Florida). ANSWER: Do not understand what the question is. 5. Technical question concerning number of max VoIP calls, II. Deliverables, 1. System - (DTech WHISPER900 capable of 120 calls with max input i.e. 4 E1s). Please provide max number based on current link requirement, (2MB uplink) of remote terminals, hub. ANSWER: Around 24. 6. Where will the antenna be installed? (roof top, concrete pad, building number, etc.) ANSWER: Roof top. 7. What is the distance from the antenna to the network? ANSWER: Approx 200 ft. 8. Will trenching be required? ANSWER: No. 9. Will conduit be required? ANSWER: No. 10. Will the racks for the Hub configuration be GFE? ANSWER: Yes. 11. Can you please clarify the satellite foot print coverage area. In the document it states coverage area needs to be North America, Alaska, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. I do not know of any satellite that has coverage over that entire area. We could do it with multiple satellites if it is a necessity or look at using one satellite over another based on the contour maps. The satellite we are looking at for this has coverage in most of N. America stretching into Canada, but does not cover the northern reaches of the Canadian Territories, Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands yet has coverage in Hawaii. Another satellite has coverage further in the Caribbean. Will this be an issue for your customer, can they please provide additional direction? Can they be more specific to the coverage areas in the most northern areas of North America? ANSWER: Coverage area is as stated. 12. In Section 4 Delivery Schedule, it asks that testing of the equipment be performed at Vendors facilities. This is very easily done with the 2 portable earth stations, however, can you please clarify if they would like us to install, set up, and test the Network Hub as well. Yes. 13. Section II #2 Network Hub – Does your customer want the 3.8m dish to be stearable or fixed? If it is fixed and they want to use a different satellite for communications at a later date, there is no way to move the dish to a different orbital location. If it is stearable there would be some sort of manual interface to redirect the dish to another location. ANSWER: Stearable is fine. 14. SCPC in its pure form is not a shared bandwidth capable at the RF link level for simultaneous operation without another type of RF access scheme. Would you please clarify if the links from the remotes are 2mbps each with simultaneous operation? Additionally, the requirement for a total (shared) downlink capability of 3MBps from the fixed central hub cannot be accomplished unless it is a TDM solution; or did the requirement mean to state that each remote would receive at 1.5mbps each with a total aggregate requirement (for both links combined) to be 3.0mbps? ANSWER: 2MBps up, 3BMps down for each terminal, central hub to support these requirements. 15. Have questions been posed and responded to in a public means? If so, where are those located? ANSWER: Questions and answers will be posted in FedBizOpps. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (24-MAR-2006); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
 

Web Link

Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.fbo.gov/spg/GSA/FTS/7TRT5/7TF-06-0004/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: Headquarters Fifth US Army, ATTN: Gene Belcher 1400 E. Grayson St. Bldg. 44, Room 149W Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-7000

Zip Code: 78234-7000

Country: USA
 

Record

SN01014857-F 20060326/060324215255 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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