SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Next Generation Time and Space Position Information System
- Notice Date
- 9/19/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Missile Defense Agency, MDA-DACT, NCR, HSV, Huntsville, Alabama, 35807, United States
- ZIP Code
- 35807
- Solicitation Number
- HQ0147-11-R-0015
- Point of Contact
- John D. Swan, Phone: 256-450-1552, Francesca D. Edwards, Phone: 256-450-1988
- E-Mail Address
-
John.Swan@mda.mil, francesca.edwards@mda.mil
(John.Swan@mda.mil, francesca.edwards@mda.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Test Resources Directorate (DTR) is soliciting vendor capabilities to design, develop, produce, document, deliver, support and sustain a Next Generation Time and Space Position Information (NGTSPI) system with the necessary features to support real-time Flight Safety, Post-Mission Best Estimate Trajectory reconstruction, and minimize S-band downlink bandwidth. NGTSPI is required for support of real-time track of target and interceptor missiles from launch or horizon break to splash or intercept in the Pacific theater. NGTSPI is anticipated to support an average of eight MDA flight tests per year. It is anticipated that the resulting contract will include both fixed price and cost reimbursement contract line items with a four year base period and five 12-month contract options. NGTSPI may consist of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, a GPS/IMU coupled system, or GPS hybrid receiver-translator. Specialized ground processing hardware may be needed for post-mission processing. NGTSPI will provide a dedicated stand-alone encryption /S-band (and potentially C-band) telemetry transmitter capability for data downlink to the ground system. This synopsis encourages maximum use of off-the-shelf hardware minimizing non-recurring engineering (NRE) development costs. MDA prefers maximum use of Non-Developmental Items (NDI), commercial off the shelf (COTS), and government off the shelf (GOTS) hardware and software available from either contractor or U.S. Government sources. The intended outcome of this market research is to determine small business and industry capability to support the NGTSPI program. MDA is requesting that persons interested in this acquisition submit a capability statement demonstrating their proficiency/experience in missile GPS applications. Include in your description COTS, GOTS, and non-developmental/developmental hardware requiring modifications. Capability statements need to describe demonstrated experience through past and current performance in meeting all 26 NGTSPI requirements listed below. Your statement needs to describe the company's effort in the past three years for the same/similar requirements. Include information such as contract number (indicate if your role was a prime or subcontractor), organization supported, contract value, Government points of contact and current telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, and a brief description of how the contract referenced relates to the requirements described herein. In addition, respondents are to complete a Capability Matrix which identifies five key NGTSPI performance requirements. For each of the five requirements, put a check mark in one box: current capability, minor modifications, or major modifications. Then fill out the comment and reference sections. Reference where in your capability statement the details can be located. In order to complete the matrix for submission, respondents are to request a copy of the matrix format and requirements from the contracting officer, John Swan, at john.swan@mda.mil. NGTSPI REQUIREMENTS 1. Shall provide time, space, and position information (TSPI) for high dynamic vehicles and provide a dedicated stand-alone National Security Agency (NSA) approved encryption and S-band (and potentially C-band) telemetry transmitter for data downlink to the telemetry ground station (please note if non-standard "specialized" ground telemetry hardware is required for your capability). 2. The downlink bandwidth occupancy shall be less than 300 KHz. 3. The S-band and potentially C-band transmitter frequency shall be settable in 1 MHz steps in accordance with Inter-Range Instrumentation Group 106 (IRIG-106) standard. 4. Tracking range for these missiles shall be up to 2000 nautical miles for minimum S-band and potentially C-band receive antenna G/T of 13dB/°K. 5. The bit error rate shall not be greater than 1 in 10-6 bits when downlink closure is provided at 10 dB Signal-to-Noise (SNR) in the bandwidth equal to the bit rate. 6. S-band and potentially C-band downlink shall be designed in conformance with IRIG-106 telemetry standard to avoid adjacent S-band/C-band channel interference and efficiently use spectrum during simultaneous and independent track of multiple targets and interceptors. 7. Shall provide adequate Global Positioning System (GPS) data to support root cause investigations into non-nominal tracking performance. 8. Shall operate with 24 to 32 Vdc provided by the flight vehicle. 9. Shall interface with discrete or multi-element ring L-band receive antennas with integrated Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNA) providing a minimum of 20dB LNA gain. 10. Shall provide a real-time state vector at 20 Hz based on independent GPS measurements. 11. Latency shall not exceed 50 milliseconds. Latency is defined as the interval from the state vector time tag to the transmission of that state vector after processing. 12. Time to first fix (TTFF) shall be less than 5 seconds. 13. Reacquisition of signals after recoverable loss shall be less than 1.5 seconds. 14. Shall provide a real-time absolute position accuracy of less than 30 meters (1 sigma) while operating non-differentially. 15. Shall provide a real-time velocity accuracy of 0.3 m/sec (1 sigma) while operating non-differentially. 16. Shall provide quality of data such that when processed post-mission gives positional accuracy of less than 5 meters (1 sigma). 17. Shall provide quality of data such that when processed post-mission gives velocity accuracy of less than 0.1 m/sec (1 sigma). 18. Flight unit performance requirements shall be met under the following dynamics: a. Velocity - up to 10,000 meters/second. b. Acceleration - up to 50 gravity-acceleration (g) in any of the X, Y, and Z directions. c. Jerk - up to 50 g/s in any of the X, Y, and Z directions for up to 1 sec during any 5 sec period. d. Roll period - up to 4 sec. 19. The flight unit, including the encryptor and S-band and potentially C-band telemetry transmitter, shall weigh less than 16 ounces. 20. The flight unit, including the encryptor and S-band telemetry transmitter, shall be no larger than 0.98H x 3.45W x 4.17L inches. 21. The flight unit shall operate under the following environmental conditions a. Temperature -- -450 C to 750 C b. Pressure - 14.7 psia to vacuum of 1*10-8 torr c. Humidity - 0% to 100% d. Shock - 1300 g (worst case) in a frequency range of 20 Hz to 10,000 Hz e. Vibration - 2.5 g2/Hz (worst case) in a frequency range of 20 Hz to 2000 Hz 22. The flight unit shall use Surface-Mounted Assembly/Small Surface-Mounted Assembly (SMA/SSMA) Radio Frequency (RF) connectors and standard miniature D-shell connectors. 23. Shall comply with the GPS Joint Program Office Interface Control Document: ICD-GPS-200. 24. Shall comply with Eastern Western Range (EWR) 127-1 and RCC-324. You are encouraged to submit acquisition strategy ideas on items 1-4 below. 1. Estimated program schedule to design, develop, test, deliver and support a NGTSPI system (with 9 year total period of performance). 2. Rough order of magnitude costs for one phase only of the anticipated contract: design, development, and test of the system through qualification test. 3. Description of risks and mitigation plans. 4. Other input the respondent considers of importance. All responses are to be pdf electronic format only, and limited to no more than twenty (20) 8.5 inch X 11 inch pages, to include the capability matrix table, using Times New Roman 12 pt font, with one inch margins on top, bottom and sides (11 inch X 17 inch foldouts shall be counted as two pages). Please also provide organization name, address, point of contact information, and type of business. NAICS code for this effort is 541712. Potential small business respondents should include their small business size status in their responses. These respondents should also be registered in the Central Contractor Registration database and submit updates of representations and certifications to the Online Representations and Certifications Application as necessary, but at least annually, to ensure representations and certifications are kept current, accurate, and complete. Provide security capability and experience for Facility Clearance up to "Secret" and Level of Safeguarding Required up to "Secret", as will be required by any resulting contract. This sources sought synopsis is not a commitment by the Government to award a contract and the Government will not pay any costs incurred as a result of this synopsis. Respondents will not be notified of the results of any review of responses to this synopsis, however, clarification of submissions may be requested by the Contracting Officer. Submit all responses to John Swan at john.swan@mda.mil no later than 14 days after publication of this announcement. MDA will acknowledge receipt of capability statement submissions via return e-mail.
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