SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- VSAT services, Caribbean
- Notice Date
- 5/17/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, U. S. Geological Survey, U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, APS PO BOX 25046 MS204ADENVER FEDERAL CENTER DENVER CO 80225
- ZIP Code
- 80225
- Solicitation Number
- 08CRSS0028
- Response Due
- 7/3/2008
- Point of Contact
- SANDRA LINTZ CONTRACT SPECIALIST 3032369560 ;
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Product Service Code - R426 Satellite CommunicationNAICS 517410 - Satellite TelecommunicationsOn or about June 3, 2008, the U. S. Geological Survey, Seismological Laboratory will release a competitive solicitation, number 08CRSS0028, for Caribbean VSAT services. These services provide coverage on two linear feed, C-Band satellites with Caribbean coverage. The equipment and services contract will be for a base year and four option years. The solicitation will be restricted for small business under NAICS codes 517410 entitled "Satellite Telecommunications" which has a size standard of $13.5 million. A complete statement of work and source selection criteria will be included in the solicitation. Written response will be due within 30 days of the issue date. Interested parties may access a copy or download the documents by going to http://ideasec.nbc.gov. Telephone requests for a hard copy of the solicitation will not be accepted. Interested parties must be registered in CCR (Central Contractor Registration), http://www.ccr.gov to be considered for contract award. In the interim, questions or concerns may be directed to the Contract Specialist, Sandra Lintz, at slintz@usgs.gov. See note 1. Nine locations are installed remotely and the split will be four stations on one satellite with the remaining five on the other. All locations are operating with government supplied 2.4 M dish, 5 Watt transmitters and DMD-20 LBST-ETH-DC VSAT Modem. Locations are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Panama, Grenada, Turks and Caicos, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Jamaica, Honduras and Dominican Republic. Bandwidth is required to provide real time data flow from the Caribbean Tsunami Network to the National Earthquake Information Center. Both satellites shall be visible at the U. S. Geological Survey, Seismological Laboratory, in Albuquerque, NM and usable with the above equipment. Bandwidth allocation from each remote site to the Hub will be Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) 19200 bps. Bandwidth allocation to the remote sites from the Hub will be a minimum of 32,000 bps SCPC. Any and all contractor installed equipment will operate on 48VDC or 24VDC and not exceed 10 Watts total consumption. The contractor shall provide a Hub facility with climate control, backup power and security to protect Government Furnished Equipment (GFE). Hub facilities shall be monitored 24/7. The contractor shall accept a government furnished leased line in their facility to transport the data after it is landed at the teleport and provide hosting for any required equipment when requested. The government will provide C-band modems (DMD-20 LBST-ETH-AC) for Hub usage. All routers shall be provided by the contractor and shall be configured to allow UDP packets to pass as well as TCP/IP. The contractor shall supply teleport dishes and transceivers. Provisioning of licensing shall be supplied by the contractor. The contractor shall allocate six visible IP addresses per remote location and shall be responsible for all routing configuration and IP addressing assigned to the network. The contractor shall assure the Hub provides ample internet bandwidth for the government to receive all nine stations over the open internet. A voice over internet protocol (VOIP) private lines network using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones shall be maintained at the Hub with connectivity via the open internet and satellite networks to create a private voice network capable of 35 private lines. The contractor must be able to remotely troubleshoot problems at remote stations in cooperation with designated operators in Spanish and English languages and provide a report to the customer's responsible person and coordinate further action with the customer's network management team. The contractor shall make available one test circuit on one of the satellites to enable testing and simulations upon customer requests. Usage of this circuit will not exceed 45 days per year. This circuit shall be made available within 24 hours of initial request. The contractor shall create Data Transmission Plans and document satellite modem and router configurations. The contractor shall maintain statistics of IP traffic, and allow customer connectivity to management ports on selected devices as necessary to assure complete access to government data from customer qualified personnel. The contractors Network Operations Center (NOC) will be available 24 hours 7 days per week all year long to commission new installations or checkout repairs. The contractor shall perform routine maintenance of the GFE located at the Hub facility to include programming changes and removal and replacement of faulty equipment. Current deployment is on PAS-3XPR 9C and IA-805 22C. Any hardware or configuration changes as well as re-orienting will be borne by the contractor, the responsibility of the contractor. See note 1.
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