MODIFICATION
D -- SATELLITE SERVICE
- Notice Date
- 5/31/2007
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 517410
— Satellite Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNL07190946
- Response Due
- 6/6/2007
- Archive Date
- 5/31/2008
- Point of Contact
- Marie W. Hamann, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-2258, Fax 757-864-7709, Email Marie.W.Hamann@nasa.gov - Deborah L. Ford, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-6755, Fax 757-864-9097, Email Deborah.L.Ford@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Marie W. Hamann
(Marie.W.Hamann@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE COMBINED SYNOPSIS/RFQ FOR SATELLITE SERVICE. Companies shall acknowledge all amendment(s) in their quote. This notice serves as the official amendment to subject synopsis/RFQ and a written amendment will not be issued. The purpose of this amendment is to Answer the following questions. 1. Is the 150 Hours each year or over the whole contract life? The 150 hour specification is rough, per year, originally based upon estimated need for satellite services for up to 4 one-week (5 day) deployments per year, using the satellite system for up to 7 hrs/day [4 deployments x 5 days/deployment x 7 hrs/day = approximately 140 to 150 hours required per year at a total.] The intent is to renew this capability yearly, thus the "occassional use" policy, as specified--the base year, plus 4, one-year options. 2. Is the contract life until 2012? Yes, if we choose to exercise all options. 3. Unit Price, is this for the whole contract or each year? You must break it out separately for the Base and for each Option Year. 4. Is the estimated quantity of hours per year quantities? Or over a 5 year contract term? See Item one's answer above. 5. Based upon the FEC and the Viasat hub and modern equipment--how much satellite bandwidth is desired? Based on estimated requirements to provide 1.0 Mbps (1 Mbps = 1,048,576 bits-per-second) uplink data rate for communications from the 2.4Meter fixed dish to the 1.2Meter portable dish (duplex audio and data files only, no video), and 2.048 Mbps uplink data rate for communications from the 1.2Meter portable dish to the 2.4Meter fixed dish (duplex audio, data files, and video), bandwidth required is different depending on the origin/destination of data. Max required bandwidth is approx. 2.05 Mbps. 6. How much notice will NASA provide before wishing to go onto vendor provided satellite space segment? At least three weeks notice will be given. 7. Can vendor provide satellite space segment on different domestic satellites? Yes, provided all other specifications are met. 8. What is the geographic coverage area that you require? The 2.4m dish is fixed outside B1220 at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. For the next 2 years, the remote dish will be located at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, located near Chincoteague Island, Virginia on the Eastern Shore. Required geographic coverage for the next 5 years would likely be the US Eastern Standard Time zone. 9. Please define the coverage area that you require. Required geographic coverage for the next 5 years would likely be the US Eastern Standard Time zone. However, research requirements may dictate deployment to other sites in the continental United States. 10. What is the area to be covered by the satellite service you are looking for? Required geographic coverage for the next 5 years would likely be the US Eastern Standard Time zone. However, research requirements may dictate deployment to other sites in the continental United States. 11. What is the location of the two dishes the satellite connectivity will serve? The NASA system is comprised of two antennas. One antenna is a 2.4 meter satellite dish with 8 Watt Ku band block up converter, fixed at NASA Langley. The second antenna is a field deployable portable 1.2 meter dish with 25 Watt transmit power amplifier, 1Watt Ku band block up converter. The 2.4m dish is fixed outside B1220 at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The portable dish is transported to the flight test site. For the next 2 years, the portable remote dish will be located at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, located near Chincoteague Island, Virginia on the Eastern Shore. The due date for receipt of offers is not extended. Companies shall provide the information stated in the synopsis/RFQ posted on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) on [ENTER DATE]. Documents related to this procurement are available over the Internet. These documents reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/LaRC Business Opportunities home page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=23 NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO FEDBIZOPPS ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (31-MAY-2007); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
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