SOURCES SOUGHT
59 -- Sources Sought To Provide Brand Name Components (Monaco System Transceivers) or Industry Equivalents, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2009
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 236220
— Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Engineer District, New York, US Army Engineer District, New York, CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0090
- ZIP Code
- 10278-0090
- Solicitation Number
- W912DS-09-S-0018
- Response Due
- 2/23/2009
- Archive Date
- 4/24/2009
- Point of Contact
- Sean Imbs, 9177908172<br />
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of the Brand Name Component, Monaco System Transceivers, or Industry EQUIVALENTS, as described below, for multiple upcoming construction projects at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY for 2009 through 2012. No awards will be made from this Sources Sought Notice. No solicitation will be available at this time. However, responses to this Sources Sought Notice will be used to determine an appropriate acquisition strategy for future acquisitions. The New York District intends to solicit and award multiple construction projects for the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY for 2009 through 2012. The multiple construction projects will be solicited competitively under future separate solicitations. These projects will include a Brand Name Only component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise. This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential offerors of the Governments intent to solicit a brand name only component under a future construction projects for 2009 through 2012 and (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name only item and (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only, system Monaco, as described below. The Monaco System Transceiver is embedded in the multiple construction projects, which projects will be issued competitively. Only that part of the projects requiring the Monaco System Transceiver is sole source if no sources are able to provide an equivalent system. In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name Only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR Part 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source. A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project that will be issued competitively. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole source if no sources are able to prove an equal product. Supplies will be providing the brand name component to the contractor under the future solicitation for the construction of the project, not directly to the Government. SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The fire alarm systems at the United States Military Academy provide the vital link in the protection of lives and property, via notification to building occupants and the Post Fire Department should a fire occur. To accomplish the goal of protecting life and property, and to accomplish the mission of the Academy, a reliable receiving and reporting system is an absolute necessity. The existing fire alarm equipment at the United States Military Academy is the Monaco M-2 Fire Alarm Control Panels. The Monaco M-2 Fire Alarm Control Panel contains an integral radio transmitter capable of transmitting up to sixty (60) fire alarm/supervisory signals and sixty (60) trouble zone signals. Additionally there are four (4) zones that identify addressable devices and various trouble conditions (i.e. smoke detector maintenance alerts). The addressable M-2 supports up to 1584 addressable devices, requiring only inexpensive plug-in cards for expansion. The M-2 Fire Alarm Control Panels at West Point originally used the Monaco D-700 Central Radio Control Alarm receiving system at Fire Dispatch. However in 2008, the Monaco D-700 was upgraded to a D-21 Enhanced Central Radio Control Alarm receiving system. No other product has been found that can be considered interchangeable with or equal to the Monaco D-21 Enhanced Central Radio Alarm System. The only remote transceivers that will communicate with this make of base transceiver are the Monaco Model BTX family of transceivers. The required features of the BTX-F (Fire) Alarm Building Transceiver are as follows: (1) Hardwire line or narrowband radio communication with any of the D-21 Fire Management System; (2) Narrowband radio is FCC certified for narrowband operation and meets the requirements of the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Frequency Management; (3) Radio communication with the D-21; (4) Provides audio and fire alarm overrides for mass notification per UFC and NFPA; (5) Provides automatic and manual control of local or remote devices such as turning on pumps based on timed events, input from a fire alarm control panel, or manually activated from the D-21; (6) Provides eight relay driver outputs and four supervised zone inputs; (7) Eight onboard open-collector relay driver outputs can connect to the BTX-F relay board or to relay coils that remotely control equipment such as pump activation inputs, HVAC dampers, lighting, door openers, runway barriers, and gates. These outputs can also drive remote enunciator LEDs; (8) Four supervised fire zone inputs for connection to fire detection and monitoring devices located within 15 feet of the BTX-F; these are supervised for open (trouble), short (alarm), single-ground fault, and double-ground fault conditions; (9) Four zone LEDs (one for each zone) reflect the condition of the zones: trouble, alarm, or normal; (10) Status LEDs reflect the status of the BTX-F: general alarm, general trouble, system fault, in-communication, carrier detect, transmit, primary power, battery boost charge, and battery float charge; (11) Supports up to 7 zone expansion backplanes into which fire zone cards can be plugged (12) Each zone expansion card provides four zone inputs and eight relay outputs for connection to local or remotely located devices; (13) Each expansion card has five LEDs: the PWR LED indicates power is being supplied to the card; the remaining four LEDs indicate the status of the four zone inputs; (14) Each BTX-F can support up to 60 zones and 8 relay outputs with 14 expansion cards installed (15) One selectable RS-422/RS-485 port for communication with peripheral equipment or connection to a local access controller. (16) Two full-duplex RS-232 ports used to program the BTX-F via connection to a laptop computer or for connection to peripheral equipment that does not have a RS-422 port/RS-485 port; (17) 115 or 230 Vac power monitored with automatic switchover to backup battery power that provides standby power; the number of hours depends on the battery (18) Self test, stuck transmitter disconnect, reset, acknowledge, and battery reconnect switches; (19) Local audible alert; Any vendor wishing to provide a system that is compatible with the existing Monaco system must provide a copy of its brochure and any other data by 15 calendar days from date of issue, NO LATER THAN 23 FEBRUARY 2009, 4:00 PM EST, to Contract Specialist, CPT Sean P. Imbs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Contracting Division, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1843, N.Y., New York 10278. This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. This project will be solicited at a future date.
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- Address: US Army Engineer District, New York CENAN-CT, 26 Federal Plaza, New York NY<br />
- Zip Code: 10278-0090<br />
- Zip Code: 10278-0090<br />
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