SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- AN/SQQ-32 Sonar System Upgrades
- Notice Date
- 5/23/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NSWC Panama City, Code XPS1, 110 Vernon Ave., Panama City, FL
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N6133107R0046
- Response Due
- 6/13/2007
- Archive Date
- 8/30/2007
- Description
- Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City (NSWC PC) intends to issue a sole source contract to DRS Sonar Systems, 400 Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland to provide non-personal technical support services for recommended performance upgrades to the AN/SQQ-32 Sonar System, which includes Classification Sonar Hardware Components & Sub-systems, Ship Sonar Processing Equipment, and the common High Frequency Wide Band / Classification Sonar Operator Consoles. Contractor support is also required to review the AN/SQQ-32 Sonar System and make recommendations for upgrading performance of the classification sonar sub-system. The contractor will also evaluate the High Frequency Wide Band (HFWB) and Classification sonar common operator console designs to accommodate upgrades to the system and to incorporate new technology requirements. The current identical AN/SQQ-32 Legacy operator consoles will be upgraded to incorporate system redesign to accommodate new fiber optic t echnology within the AN/SQQ-32 system. This procurement is sole source for the following reasons. Thales Company was the 1980?s designer, developer, manufacturer, and current vendor for the AN/SQQ-32 (V)3 Classify Sonar Sub-system and its associated parts and components. Sonar Systems (a DRS / Thales Company joint US venture), is the only company that can support the US Navy?s AN/SQQ-32 (V)3 mine hunting sonar system pre-planned re-design to provide system analysis and upgraded design information based on obsolescence and reliability issues currently plaguing this now outdated design. Through Sonar Systems affiliation with Thales, they are the only US company to have developed and put into production, the current US Navy?s AN/SQQ-32 (V)3 Classification mine-hunting sonar. Given the complexity of the AN/SQQ032(V)3 system and the level of system knowledge required to evaluate the High Frequency Wide Band (HFWB) and Classification sonar common operator console designs to accommodate upgrades to the system and to incorporate new technology requirements, Sonar Systems is the only source possessing the expertise, internal technical data, equipment, and experienced personnel necessary to successfully provide the engineering and design services to accomplish all tasking. Sonar System?s corporate experience would significantly mitigate schedule and technical risk associated with the sonar?s functional capabilities, parts obsolescence, system reliability issues, and common architecture with the mine countermeasures combat suite.
- Web Link
-
NSWC Panama City Open Actions
(http://www.ncsc.navy.mil/Contracts/ZTables/open_actions.htm)
- Record
- SN01301700-W 20070525/070523230439 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |