SOLICITATION NOTICE
16 -- Ku Band Beyond Line of Sight Digital Datalink (BLOSDD) System - ACRONYMS - CBP SUBCONTRACTING PLAN - PAST PERFORMANCE FORMS - KU BAND BLOSDD - CDRLs - DD 250 - DHC-8 OVERVIEW - SOW - CLINs
- Notice Date
- 12/23/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Procurement Directorate - DC, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 1310 NP, Washington, District of Columbia, 20229, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20229
- Solicitation Number
- HSBP1012R0018_DRAFT_RFP
- Archive Date
- 1/21/2012
- Point of Contact
- Jason Bailey, Phone: 2023441188, Stephanie F Alexander, Phone: 202-344-1168
- E-Mail Address
-
jason.w.bailey@dhs.gov, stephanie.alexander@dhs.gov
(jason.w.bailey@dhs.gov, stephanie.alexander@dhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- CLINs Statement of Work DHC-8 OVERVIEW DD 250 CDRLs KU BAND BLOSDD Past Performance Forms CBP SUBCONTRACTING PLAN Acronym and Abbreviation List Solicitation Number: HSBP1012R0018 Notice Type: Presolicitation Synopsis: This is a pre-solicitation notice in accordance with FAR 5.203(a) as well as a DRAFT Request for Proposal. This pre-solicitation notice includes a DRAFT solicitation (see attachments). Any questions about the DRAFT RFP shall be submitted in writing by Friday, January 6, 2012 at 3:30PM Eastern Time to Jason.W.Bailey@dhs.gov. Telephonic questions will not be entertained. Under the authority of Title I, Sec. 101 Homeland Security Act of 2002 as amended, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States; reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism; and minimize the damage, and assist in the recovery, from terrorist attacks that do occur within the United States. Aircraft equipped with state-of-the-art multi-mode sensors are an effective means of detecting, sorting and tracking border incursions. Customs and Border Protection Customs and Border Protection (CBP) currently operates a fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft, including manned P-3 and DHC-8 patrol aircraft and the Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Each of these platforms has an electro-optical imaging sensor, but only the Predator B UAS has the capability to transmit the sensor video to the CBP ground facilities for exploitation. Digital backhaul capability from manned aircraft has already been demonstrated using three (3) CBP P-3 aircraft equipped with INMARSAT Datalink systems, but this implementation has proven to be very expensive to operate and provide inadequate bandwidth to effectively downlink video. The primary purpose of this Ku Band Beyond Line of Sight Digital Datalink (BLOSDD) System, with its higher bandwidth capabilities, shall be to demonstrate the real-time transmission of data and imagery from onboard sensors on the P-3 and DHC-8 to an appropriate ground station while exploiting existing surplus CBP Office of Air and Marine (OAM) Ku-band capacity already on contract to support UAS operations. This DRAFT RFP is posted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 for the purpose of acquiring a Ku Band Beyond Line of Sight Digital Datalink (BLOSDD) System. The purpose of the Ku Band BLOSDD System effort is to design, develop, install, and test software and a hardware system that will provide a Ku Bandwidth, satellite-based, datalink capability for P-3 Long Range Tracker (LRTs), P-3 Airborne Early Warning (AEW), and DHC-8 (200 and 300 series) aircraft as well as the necessary ground-based operation centers. The Ku Band BLOSDD System will assist CBP mission operators to rapidly and efficiently deliver and receive point-to-point and general broadcast data sets, thereby enabling all operators in the field and decision makers in operations centers to have "near real-time" access to audio-visual information required to effectively perform the mission of protecting the homeland. The NAICS code for this procurement is: 334511. The anticipated official solicitation issuance date is unknown. DHS makes no representation that a final solicitation will be issued or that a contract award will result from the solicitation (when issued).
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/USCS/PDDC20229/HSBP1012R0018_DRAFT_RFP/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: The first Ku Band BLOSDD System shall be delivered, tested and accepted within one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days after receipt of order (ARO). Follow-on systems shall be delivered, tested and accepted thirty (30) calendar days later. The manufacturer shall deliver all equipment to a facility designated by the COTR., United States
- Record
- SN02645134-W 20111225/111223233726-26002f6ba00529a722f1b4a274ea03ee (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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