SOURCES SOUGHT
35 -- Three (3) Pressure Inverted Echo Sounder (PIES)
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334519
— Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisition Division-KC, 601 East 12th Street, Room 1756, Kansas City, Missouri, 64106, United States
- ZIP Code
- 64106
- Solicitation Number
- NRMAD000-14-01073SLW
- Point of Contact
- Sharon L. Walker, Phone: (816)426-7470
- E-Mail Address
-
sharon.walker@noaa.gov
(sharon.walker@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Commerce, Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL, intends to award a purchase to the University of Rhode Island (URI), Kingston, RI for the purchase of three (3) Pressure Inverted Echo Sounders (PIES) to be deployed in the north/south Atlantic Ocean. Record number 1669. The scientists and engineers at The University of Rhode Island (URI designed and developed the PIES. They have built a large number of PIES and used them under many different conditions. They have refined their design based on the results of these deployments to improve the measurement accuracy, reliability, and the resulting data quality. Since these instruments are deployed for periods of up to 5 years an acoustic telemetry system must be built into the PIES so that a synopsis of the data can be obtained periodically from a ship without retrieving the instrument. URI developed a technique of condensing the data and transmitting it acoustically to a ship so that the instruments do not have to be brought to the surface to get the data. The system URI developed uses a complicated structure of various acoustic frequencies, pulse width, and timing differences to transmit the information to the ship. The PIES must be able to communicate with a Benthos 7000 or 9000 deck units in order to be able to decode these acoustic signals into digital information that are recorded and converted by a computer into data values for the scientists. The transmission frequency range of the instrument must be in the range of 10-15Khz in order to work in depths below 4000 meters. The instrument must also have a built in relocation/tracking system that can be received by a radio-directional finder for when they surface. These instruments must have a battery life capacity of 5 years. The Government has done extensive research and found that only two other vendors manufacture PIES. The only known manufacturer of the PIES that can work with Benthos Teledyne deck units is the URI PIES. The PIES are manufactured to work specifically with the Benthos UDB7000 deck units. The Government must be able to communicate and be able to download the data from the PIES using these deck units. AOML owns 10 of these deck boxes. The software to communicate with these deck boxes and decode the PIES data was developed at AOML. It took 1 year to develop and test the software that decodes the URI PIES's format. Developing and testing new software to decode a format from another vendor would be very costly. There is no other known vendor that can provide this type of supply. The intended procurement is for services for which the Government intends to acquire under the guidelines of FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The University of Rhode Island is the only know source able to provide this type of supply. The NAICS code for this action is 334519. Interested parties must respond within (5) five days after publication of this notice. If no affirmative responses are received, the Government intends to issue a contract to the University of Rhode Island. All contractors doing business with the Government must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). No award can be made unless the vendor is registered with SAM. For more information and to register with the SAM, please access the following website: http://www.sam.gov/. In order to register with the SAM offerors must have a Dun & Bradstreet number. A Dun & Bradstreet number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun & Bradstreet on-line at http://www.dnb.com/product/update/requestOptions.html or by phone at (800) 333-0505. Offerors may submit their capabilities statement via email address Sharon.walker@noaa.gov or fax to 727-664-3845. Offerors may submit their capabilities statement to sharon.walker@noaa.gov or fax to 717-664-3845.
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