MODIFICATION
99 -- Mobile and Transportable RF Recording/Direction Finding System and Eight Fixed Site Spectrum Monitoring and Geo Location System
- Notice Date
- 9/17/2012
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 334515
— Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Installation Division, Directorate of Contracting, 4118 Susquehanna Avenue, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-3013
- ZIP Code
- 21005-3013
- Solicitation Number
- W91ZLK-12-R-0054
- Response Due
- 9/24/2012
- Archive Date
- 11/23/2012
- Point of Contact
- maureen cameron, 410 278 0771
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Installation Division
(maureen.cameron@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- AMENDMENT W91ZLK-12-R-0054-0001 IS ISSUED TO PROVIDE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, UPDATE PAST PERFORMANCE AND TO ADD FAR CLAUSE 52.211-6 BRAND NAME OR EQUAL. THE CLOSING DATE OF THE SOLICITATION REMAINS THE SAME AT SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 @ 4:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. Quotations must be signed, dated, and received by the closing date and time, via fax at 410-278-2407 or email to Ms. Maureen Cameron at maureen.v.cameron.civ@mail.mil, The Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Tenant Contracting Division Attention: CCRD-AI-IC, 4118 Susquehanna Avenue, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-3013. For questions concerning this Request for Quotations contact Maureen Cameron, Contracting Specialist at: maureen.v.cameron.civ@mail.mil Please provide any questions no later than September 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM EST. NO TELEPHONE REQUESTS WILL BE HONORED. Question 1: Is this procurement for commercial entities only or will Government entities also be competing for this program, such as EPG? Answer 1: Only commercial entities will participate. Question 2: Is the US Government developed MANCAT program available as GFE/I to commercial integrators as part of this solicitation? Answer 2: No, but as the US Army Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) Orion/MANCAT (Multi-spectral Ambient Noise Collection & Analysis Tool) program has already been tested and evaluated by ATC and found to be inadequate to meet our technical performance requirements, it does not matter. Question 3: Within the vehicle, are there two MRS and DFGLS systems, one for the mobile platform and one for the transportable system? Or are they the same, i.e. there is one MRS and one DFGLS within the vehicle that becomes the transportable system after they are removed from the vehicle? Answer 3: As delineated in the solicitation (specifications 1, 5-7), the mobile and transportable versions of the MRS and DFGLS systems are separate entities. The transportable systems are not destined to be transported in the same vehicle as the mobile platform. Note that the portion of the RF spectrum required to be covered by the mobile and transportable DFGLS systems is not the same. The mobile DFGLS system must cover 50 MHz - 18 GHz, while the transportable DFGLS must cover 500 MHz - 18 GHz. Question 4: The signal analysis workstation (Paragraph 16) doesn't specify where it is to be installed. Can it be assumed that there is only one and it will be mounted in the vehicle? Or is it to be installed in the ATC Central Spectrum Monitoring Center? Answer 4: The signal analysis workstation will be located and operated at a laboratory outside the mobile platform. It is required to be mounted in a 19-inch rack to make it easy to transport it and set it up in other laboratories when the mobile and transportable MRS systems it supports are deployed to distant ranges. There is only one signal analysis workstation required. Question 5: Paragraph 9: how is the connection to the ATC network to be accomplished; wireless, or cabling? If cabling, then how many different sites exist that have these network connections and are the system required to be able to connect to all of them? Answer 5: Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) has an extensive optical fiber backbone system covering its ranges and test courses that hosts its Local Area Network (LAN). Additionally, there is IEEE 802.11g Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) coverage over the cantonment areas adjacent to the ranges and test courses that is tied to the ATC LAN. Assume there will be optical fiber ATC LAN available at each of the eight FSRN and that ATC will provide the equipment necessary to provide a suitable Ethernet connection point. Depending upon location where they are operated, the mobile and transportable MRS and DFGLS systems may or may not have access to the ATC LAN (fiber or WLAN); however, if an ATC LAN link is available they should readily be integrated to operate with the other systems. Question 6: Paragraph 7 requires: Autonomously, "....the direction to and location of many types of conventional emitters of interest from 500 MHz to 18 GHz using Angle of Arrival (AOA) methodology." while in a fixed position. a.Does the Government intend to provide access to other data that would assist in providing a location, e.g. geolocation when only AOA data is required to be measured by the fixed position system? Answer 6: The Government recognizes that a minimum of three AOA measurements of an RF emitter from different bearing angles are required to accurately geo-locate it. This system should also be able to utilize and integrate historical measurements it has made from other locations, and also be able to integrate with the data acquired by the mobile system whenever both are connected to the ATC LAN. Additionally, when the system is delivered to the Government and fielded at ATC, the Government users will install on it an unclassified extract of the Defense Spectrum Organization's Spectrum XXI database of RF emitters (includes emission characteristics and geo-location) approved to operate at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) to provide additional location information. Further details of the Spectrum XXI database are available on the Defense Information Systems Agency website at http://www.disa.mil/Services/Spectrum/Enterprise-Services/Spectrum-XXI Question 7: May we assume that the installation infrastructure is separate from the RFP's requirements (power, towers, fixed site masts, cabling etc.) and will be provided by the Government? Answer 7: Yes.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG - Installation Division Directorate of Contracting, 4118 Susquehanna Avenue Aberdeen Proving Ground MD
- Zip Code: 21005-3013
- Zip Code: 21005-3013
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