SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Fort Riley is loking for sources to upgrade its base radio system, M/A-COM ProVoice ?, trunking radio system to an APCO 25 compliant Trunking radio system consisting of a primary site and 2 new sites.
- Notice Date
- 8/3/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- ACA, Fort Riley, Directorate of Contracting, 7410 Apennines Drive, Fort Riley, KS 66442
- ZIP Code
- 66442
- Solicitation Number
- W911RX-07-T-0050
- Response Due
- 8/8/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/7/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- We have a requirement for upgrade of the installation base radio system (BRS). Fort Riley is looking for sources with capability to upgrade its M/A-COM ProVoice ?, trunking radio system to an APCO 25 compliant Trunking radio system consisting of a p rimary site and 2 new sites. The Primary site currently consists of 7 transmitters and will be expanded to a total of 14 operating in the 406 -420 M bandwidth. The Grant Ridge site will be a new 3 transmitter site utilizing an existing tower and communicat ions hut. The Range 54 site will be a new 3 transmitter site utilizing an existing communications hut but requires the erection of a 100 transmitter tower. Required APCOP25 Feature Support System Feature Set The system conversion shall maintain compliance with the following system level trunking features: Table 1 - System Level Features Supported Call Queuing: channels are assigned in the order requests are received, with higher priority traffic placed before lower priority traffic. Late Entry (Continuous Assignment Updates): the control channel provides regular updates of calls active on the various working channels. Unit Validation (Access Control): permission to transmit on a working channel can be restricted to predetermined list of unit IDs (UIDs) Call Validation By Group: calling radios may be validated by talkgroup, as well as UID, and denied access if no other active users of that talkgroup are registered. Unit Deregistration: units are deregistered from a site following a predetermined period of inactivity or following registration at another site. Individual (Private) Call: two radios may communicate privately, if the radio is programmed to allow this activity. Telephone Interconnect: radios may directly place telephone calls using the systems central telephone interconnect capability, if the radio is programmed to allow this activity. Other users may place calls through the dispatch consoles Call Director Pat ch facility. Out of Range Tone: the radio will emit an out-of-range tone when transmission is attempted outside the service area of the radio. Talk Prohibit Tone: the radio will emit a call-denied tone when service is denied by the system infrastructure. Transmit prompt tone: the radio will emit a go-ahead tone when a channel is granted. Busy Queuing and Callback: if a call request is placed while all working channels are busy, the radio will emit a call-queued tone. Once a channel is available, a go-ahead tone is emitted, and the call proceeds. Recent User Priority: priority will be elevated for users of talkgroups engaged in recent transmissions. Multiple Priority Levels: the system will assign calls based on a 10-level priority system, with additional levels assigned to recent calls and special calls such as emergency calls. Access Control: permission to transmit on a working channel can be restricted to predetermined list of unit Ids (UIDs) Fast Channel Access: typical access times are less than 150ms for unqueued calls. Transmission and Message Trunking: either transmission or message trunking may be used. Emergency calls are always message trunked to assure continuity of these high priority calls. 9600 Baud On All Channels: 9600 baud signaling is used for both working and control channels. Convert to Callee: if more than one user attempts to talk on the same talkgroup, the first or highest priority use will be assigned the call and all others will be converted to callees. Group Scan & Priority Group Scan: all radios can be programmed to monitor several non-active talkgroups, with one being assigned as a priority group. Caller ID Display: the ID of the calling radio is displayed on all receiving radios and dispatch consoles, and may be the actual UID or an assigned alphanumeric alias. SECTION 2.0 - SYSTEM UPGRADES AND CONVERSIONS RF Sites Current RF Site (BUILDING 5002 Main Trunking tower) The seven-channel ProVoice? system located at Building 5002 will require t he following upgrades or replacements. Provide and install a complete 14-channel RF site at this location. This will support cutover of current users to the APCO 25 compliant system, while continuing to support the ProVoice? system currently installed. Granite Ridge and Range 54 RF Site Additions Granite Ridge and Range 54 will each receive a three-channel RF trunking site. Although both sites provide similar services, the configurations differ; see details below. Granite Ridge RF Site The Granite Ridge site is co-located with the tower beacon for the adjacent airfield. A single antenna will be mounted on the 60-foot tall beacon tower to support the TX and Rx needs of the site through a duplexer. This allows the site to provide the bes t coverage from a short tower. The Granite Ridge RF site will consist of the following items: One APCO 25 compliant RF site consisting of the following: Three Repeaters, with trunking controllers and switching power supplies Alarm and monitoring system. Trunking control system RF Diagnostics system One Layer 2/3 switch OTAR, OTAP and other data support One UPS sized as needed to support the equipment for 10 minutes One ten foot ice bridge between GFE shelter and tower One RF System consisting of the following: One three-channel combiner (TX RX Systems) One eight-channel multicoupler (TX RX Systems) One Bandpass Duplexer (TX RX Systems) One 8 dB gain antenna, with associated cabling and lightning protection (TX RX Systems and others) All site equipment, including the shelter, generator and grounding system will be provided GFE. Vendor will ve able to coordinate the installation of the UPS system in the shelter by the shelter vendor or by other contract. The UPS should be included in this quotation. Range 54 RF Site The Range 54 site is located on a green field (undeveloped) site in the northeast area of the Fort. The Range 54 RF site will should consist of the following items: One APCO 25 compliant RF site consisting of the following: Three Repeaters, with trunking controllers and switching power supplies. One Network Sentry alarm and monitoring system. Trunking control system RF Diagnostics system One layer 2/3 networking switch OTAR, OTAP and other data support One RF System consisting of the following: One three-channel combiner (TX RX Systems) One eight-channel multicoupler (TX RX Systems) Two 8 dB gain antenna (TX RX Systems) One 100-foot Tower guyed tower, designed to carry the load of the new antenna system. One UPS sized as needed to support installed equipment for 10 minutes One ten foot ice bridge between the GFE shelter and Vendor-provided tower All site equipment, including the shelter, generator and grounding system for the shelter will be provided GFE. Tower site prep, grounding and lightning protection will be included in the tower work. Contractor may consider an option to include an FAA ap proved Lighting system for a guyed tower. System Routing, Control and Management The Fort Riley system control center will continue to house the primary control subsystem of the new APCO 25 compliant system, as it does for the current ProVoice? system. The new control center will be housed in the newly installed shelter that also hous es the main site. Command and control of the radio system must be possible via a remote management system on a client PC that will reside on the Ft. Riley Network. Also the capability to provide call routing to and from each of the RF sites, and five dispatch consoles should be included. Network Switching Capability A Network Switching Capability for IP traffic should be an inherent part of the system. This capability will be designed to manage system control and audio traffic, and will be scalable to any system size from a small single site system, to large regional and statewide systems. The Switching system will support the new RF site, the two new expansion sites, and five consoles . An adjunct platform of the switching system shall provide support for 14 conventional interfaces, two-channels of telephone interconnects and four logging recorder ports. System Management (R/UAS and RSM) The installed system shall provide alarm and activity monitoring and storage and database support for the system components and terminals. Additionally it shall manage the RF site resources. The platforms must support password limited control from PC based remote terminals and preferably will be Common Access Card compatible on a Microsoft Windows XP? platform. Remote management terminals will be on an IP network and shall be able to be reloca ted as needed with minimal reconfiguration to facilitate future office moves. The system management system will support the following features: Dynamic Regrouping: Shall have the ability to automatically reassign talkgroup units for various emergency scenarios. Selective Radio Inhibit: The management terminal shall have the ability to prohibit a lost or stolen subscriber from operating on the system. The management terminal shall also be able to reinstate such a radio. System Monitoring: The system shall monitor activity and diagnostics in real time Basic Statistics: Provides reports on airtime usage according to site, RF channel, transaction, talkgroup, and user on a 24-hour basis. Radio Control Manager: Uses a graphical user interface display for radio command management and radio event display. Configuration Management: Management terminal has a means of summarizing all subscriber and infrastructure configuration information. Local or Remote Operation: System management terminals can be located and operated either locally or remotely from the master site. Unit ID Display: When the radio PTT is pressed, the unit ID displays on the management terminal. Emergency Alarms: When a radio sends an emergency alarm, it is displayed on the management terminal on a sub-system basis. Statistics Logging: Retains airtime usage reports for up to one year Database Snapshot: The system management terminal can generate reports from the database. Display: The radio will provide several forms of graphical representation for talkgroup, private and interconnect calls. Custom Reports: The management terminal shall provide reports detailing airtime use by unit ID and talkgroup. Security Partitioning: Provide shared inter-agency partitions such that one agency can not access other agencies system information Dynamic Shared Services: Controls the max number of simultaneous and length of interconnect calls to ensure adequate voice channels for dispatch service. Alarm Outputs: Shall have the ability to give warning indications of minor and major system failures. Conventional Interface Stations (Interoperability) This feature is imbedded in the Interoperability Gateway (IG) subsystem of the NSS. Current four-wire interfaces are duplicated in the IG, so all radios and attendant equipment are fully reusable. Over-The-Air Programming (OTAP) and Rekeying (OTAR) Over The Air Programming OTAP The desired system shall utilize an OTAP platform that supports over the air reprogramming of radios. Over The Air Re-keying OTAR The desired system shall utilize an OTAR platform that supports Re-keying radios. Dispatch Dispatch shall be supported by five dispatch consoles. Each Console shall be a true VoIP node, with vocoded and encrypted calls arriving and departing the console in native format. All vocoding and encryption/decryption will be performed directly in the console Dispatch Feature Set The desired APCO 25 conversion shall maintain compliance with the following dispatch features: Table 2 Dispatch Console Features Supported Recent User Priority: priority will be elevated for users of talkgroups engaged in recent transmissions. This is a system-wide feature Radio to Telephone Patch: The dispatcher shall have the ability to connect a radio user with a telephone call for a conversation. Select radios will be able to connect directly. Radio Patch: The dispatcher shall have the ability to connect two radios for a conversation. Simulselect and Patch (Multi-Select): The dispatcher shall have the ability to temporarily merge or patch multiple talkgroups into one voice channel. The dispatcher can merge talkgroups for a single call or on a more permanent basis. Conventional (mutual-aid) Interfaces: The dispatcher shall have the ability to permanently patch talkgroups with conventional channels for mutual aid. Logging Recorder Interface: A port to connect a logging recorder to record talkgroup audio traffic. The logging recorder will be connected to the Interoperability Gateway. NOTE: This function is also supportable through a dedicated trunked logging recorder interface from the NSS. This is the preferred logging recorder option, since all Fort radio and emergency telephone traffic can be readily recorded and managed by a singl e trunked logging recorder. If desired, a trunked logging solution will be provided. Emergency Alarm: On all handheld radios operating within the system, the user shall have the ability to send an alarm to the Dispatch Console. Unit ID Display: The dispatcher shall have the ability to display the radio ID using a voice channel. Aliasing: The dispatcher shall have the ability to display the user-friendly name for a talkgroup or a radio ID(s) Dispatch Consoles The desired consoles must provide all the same functionality provided by the current Maestro NT?, with the added benefit of IP connectivity. Each console will be equipped in the same manner as the current Maestro? console it replaces. Each will include a 17 monitor, desk microphone, two desktop speakers, a custom keyboard, and mouse. The currently installed ten minute Uninterruptible Power Sup plies (UPS) may be reused. Each console must be supplied with Call Director functionality which provides the capability for telephone interconnection through the consoles, by using the central telephone capability of an Interoperability Gateway. Headset jacks must be provided to support the RF dispatch headsets currently in use. User Equipment All M/A-Com 7100ip series radios purchased on the original and subsequent Fort Riley contracts are fully compatible with APCO25 Compliant systems. Radios will require new software and reprogramming. The following features must be added to each radio, and the radios reprogrammed: APCO 25 Trunking AES encryption, with FIPS-140 certification Over The Air Re-keying (OTAR) If the vendor makes the determination that their system cannot support a full feature set with the existing radios and Mobile units currently in use at Ft. Riley, then their capability statement shall also include the following: 1500 Handheld IP Capable units 150 Mobile units You shall have the capability to complete terminal upgrades, handheld reprogramming and Mobile reprogramming/ installation. SECTION 3.0 - IMPLEMENTATION Frequency Licensing Current Fort Riley frequencies will be reused and additional in-band frequencies added, unless Fort Riley decides to utilize the dedicated DoD band from 380-399.9 MHz. The decision to utilize this band will not affect the current 7100 series radios, which operate from 380 MHz through 430 MHz. Use of the dedicated 380-399.9 MHz DoD band may offer Fort Riley more options for expansion and frequency selection in the future. If authorized, sites in both bands can be used. Licenses and Permits Fort Riley will be responsible for all permitting and licensing. Site Development Fort Riley will be responsible for providing all site infrastructure including, but not limited to, towers, new shelters, site grounding and generators to support the new equipment. Vendor will have the capability to furnish and install the equipmen, incl uding UPSs and ice bridges at all three transmit sites and a new 100 guyed tower at Range 54. All vendor-provide d equipment will be grounded to the GFE grounding systems. Coverage Description RF coverage provided by the new radio site will be similar to that provided by the existing system. The proposed two new sites will provide additional coverage not currently supported, expanding the coverage footprint. Coverage maps will be provided upon request. Interoperability Interoperability must be provided by an interoperability gateway device using the current 4-wire connection devices. Functionality must be comparable to that currently offered, but may differ in operation. SECTION 4.0 - SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND REDUNDANCY Fault tolerance and reliability are paramount and expected uptimes should approach an industry standard of 99.999% uptime. Systems should incorporate redundant architecture and operating methods. A system with the added benefit of IP infrastructure, with the inherent ability to route traffic around circuit failures is preferred. Additional network connections may be easily added at any time to gain this benefit. Fort Riley Responsibilities Information Assurance Certification Fort Riley will be responsible for all Information Assurance and other government mandated system certifications. Vendor will have the capability to provide a fully configured, APCO 25 compliant, trunked radio system that will include all of the Informat ion Assurance upgrades. Vendor must have the capability to support the system fully in this configuration, and have the capability to provide additional Information Assurance support, as well as security updates upon delivery of the system. Information Assurance (IA) guidelines and security controls as specified in federal law (e.g., Federal Information Security Management Act [FISMA]), Department of Defense (DoD) policy (e.g., DoDI 8500.2, DoDI 5200.40), and Army Regulations (e.g., AR 25-2) must be adhered to and incorporated into the design of the system. Industry best practices and Defense in Depth will be utilized to create a layered security design that includes technical and procedural elements. In this context, Defense in Depth is the application of multiple computer security techniques in products f rom multiple vendors to mitigate the risk of any one defense being compromised or circumvented. A key element to the vendors technical capability will be the application of guidance from the appropriate DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG s) in the system design, implementation and operations and maintenance (O&M) of their products. The vendor must have the capability to develop and implement processes to apply system security and hardening to their standard products, and the capability to implement their standard security controls to the Fort Riley system, providing a more robust sol ution, with the goal of achieving Authority to Operate under the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program (DIACAP). SECTION 6.0 - SCHEDULE Fort Riley is currently positioned to begin implementation of this system at the time of contract release at the Main (Building 5002) and Grant Ridge sites. There will be approximately a 6-9 month lead time requirement for the installation of the communica tions shelter at Range 52 as it is being installed as part of a parallel project and not yet available for use.
- Place of Performance
- Address: ACA, Fort Riley Directorate of Contracting, 7410 Apennines Drive Fort Riley KS
- Zip Code: 66442
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 66442
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