SOLICITATION NOTICE
19 -- Purchase of a Buoy and Related Equipment
- Notice Date
- 9/7/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- 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, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-NFFKH010-7-19742
- Response Due
- 9/17/2007
- Archive Date
- 10/2/2007
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items in accordance with Subparts 12.6 and 13.5 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested; a written solicitation shall not be issued. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is interested in procuring a buoy and related equipment for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Chesapeake Bay Office. The Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) presently consists of three buoys located in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The buoys themselves acquire data from attached sensors and transmit the data in real time to a shore based computer network. NOAA shall purchase one additional buoy for the CBIBS under this contract. The buoy shall meet the following specifications: Platform The CBIBS buoy shall be deployable in 5 - 50 m water depths in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and nearby coastal waters. The buoy with its recommended mooring hardware shall be capable of withstanding 90 knot winds; 3m seas; and 3 knot currents. The buoy shall allow data connections to bottom mounted instruments via direct cable or acoustic modem. The platform shall be serviceable by small (<25') boat , the platform shall be boardable or completely accessible from boat. Data Controller and External Communications The controller shall integrate input from up to 12 sensors or sensor packages, including all of those listed below. External communications shall be two-way, static ip-based high bandwidth broadband CDMA (primary). Sensors Buoy shall include standard Wind / Meteorological (wind speed & dir, air temp, barometric pressure, relative humidity) and GPS (Horizontal positioning) sensors. There shall be capability to attach/remove other near-surface in-situ sensors from above the water surface. Power Power can be lead acid cells with solar charging, but the system shall be flexible enough to accommodate newer technologies (for example, lithium batteries), and shall run all instruments and communications for 1 week without solar power. There shall be an intelligent & addressable power management & distribution system This purchase shall include a ready to deploy buoy meeting the above specifications, complete power and power management systems, data collection platform, ready to interface with CDMA data modem, gps, wind/meteorology sensors, programmable amber navigation light. This solicitation is issued as a request for quotation. The NAICS code is 334519, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing. The NAICS code cited in this Request for Quotation is for internal business size stratification purposes only and is not meant to restrict this procurement to small businesses. Contractor quotations shall include all pricing including shipping to Annapolis, MD on an FOB Destination basis. The resulting purchase order shall be awarded on a firm fixed price basis. The Government may award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation shall be most advantageous to the Government. The solicitation document and incorporated clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular Number 2005-19. The provisions and clauses may be downloaded at http://www.arnet.gov/far. The following provisions and clauses shall apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-l, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items. The Government may award a purchase order resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror conforming to the solicitation which shall be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. FAR 52-212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and there is no addenda to this provision; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. All interested contractors shall be actively registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) at the CCR website (www.ccr.gov). All responsible sources may respond to this combined synopsis/solicitation with a quotation addressed to Catherine Perren, NOAA Acquisition Division, 1305 East West Highway, Room 7141, Silver Spring MD 20910, to be received no later than 12:00 noon EST, September 17, 2007. Responses may be faxed to 301-713-0806 or emailed to Catherine.a.perren@noaa.gov. The Government reserves the right to make a single award, multiple awards, or no award as a result of this RFQ. It is the responsibility of the contractor to confirm NOAA's receipt of quote.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Chesapeake Bay Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 107A, Annapolis, MD
- Zip Code: 21403
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 21403
- Record
- SN01398448-W 20070909/070907220640 (fbodaily.com)
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