SOLICITATION NOTICE
58 -- BEACONS
- Notice Date
- 7/7/2010
- Notice Type
- Cancellation
- NAICS
- 334290
— Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico Contracts Unit, FBI Engineering Research Facility, FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, 22135
- ZIP Code
- 22135
- Solicitation Number
- RFQE010835
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2010
- Point of Contact
- Laurie L. Williams, Phone: 703-985-6118
- E-Mail Address
-
LAURIE.WILLIAMS@IC.FBI.GOV
(LAURIE.WILLIAMS@IC.FBI.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) INTENDS TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE FIZED -PRICE CONTRACT FOR ACR ELECTRONICS MICROFIX 406 MHz PERSONAL LOCATOR BEACONS (PLB) TO COBHAM LIFE SUPPORT, 5757 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA 33312 UNDER RFQE010835. THIS SNOTICE WILL BE DISTRIBUTED SOLELY THROUGH THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION'S FEDERAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES (fbo0 WEBSITE WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV. INTERESTED PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONTIORING THE FBO SITE TO ENSURE THEY HAVE THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ACQUISITION. BASED ON MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED AND CONTACTS MADE WITH KNOWLEDGEABLE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE RELATED INDUSTRY, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THE FBI'S REQUIREMENT FOR THE REFERENCED PRODUCT CAN ONLY BE PROVIDED BY COBHAM LIFE SUPPORT. THE PLB'S ARE SMALL, BATTERY POWERED BEACONS THAT COMMUNICATE VIA THE COSPAS-SARSAT SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS CONSTELLATION PROVIDING THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) THE LOCATION OF THE USER WITHIN FOUR (4) MINUTES OF ACTIVATION. THE FBI'S PERSONNEL RECOVERY COORDINATION GROUP (PRCG) PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED OVER 500 OF THESE UNITS, BUT WITH INCREASED THREATS TO AND INCREASED NUMBER OF GLOBALLY DEPLOYED FBI PERSONNEL, IN ADDITION TO THE NEED TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE (I.E. BATTERY REPLACEMENT, ETC.) ON DEPLOYED UNITS NECESSITATE THE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL UNITS. MICROFIX IS THE ONLY UNIT WITH A GPS SELF TEST FUNCTION TO ENSURE PROPOER OPERATION OF THE DEVICE IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY. IN ADDITION, A CRITICAL REQUIREMENT FOR OPERATION IS THE COMPATIBILITY AND INTEROPERABILITY WITH DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD). DOD HAS PURCHASED SEVERAL MICROFIX UNITS AND DEPPLOYED THEM TO COUNTRIES WHERE THE FBI JOINTLY OPERATED WITH DOD ENTITIES AND THE FBI HAS HAD TO RELY ON DOD TO PROVIDE RESCUE\RECOVERY SUPPORT IN THESE ENVIRONMENTS. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTATIONS, HOWEVER, INTERESTED PARTIES MAY IDENTIFY THEIR INTEREST AND CAPABILITY BY RESPONDING TO THIS REQUIREMENT OR SUBMIT A QUOTE TO THIS OFFICE BY 12:00 P.M. EDT, JULY 14, 2010, VIA FACSIMILE TO THE ATTENTION OF LAURIE L. WILLIAMS, CONTRACT SPECIALIST, AT 703-985-6103. INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DERTERMINING WHETHER TO CONDUCT A COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT. THE AWARDEE SHALL BE REGISTERED IN THE CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (CCR) DATABASE AND ALSO ON THE ONLINE REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATION (ORCA) AT HTTP://ORCA.BPN.GOV.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOJ/FBI/ECU15/RFQE010835/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, QUANTICO CONTRACTS UNIT, ENGINEERING RESEARCH FACILITY-OTD, TRACKING TECHNOLOGY UNIT (TTU), QUANTICO, Virginia, 22135, United States
- Zip Code: 22135
- Zip Code: 22135
- Record
- SN02198267-W 20100709/100707235012-cdaa68035699d9e54d27741dfab36256 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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