SPECIAL NOTICE
59 -- 50-Foot Ethernet Cable for Mooring Buoy
- Notice Date
- 12/31/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument 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
- NRMAF000-15-00517
- Archive Date
- 1/23/2015
- Point of Contact
- Shelley Smith, Phone: 816-426-2066
- E-Mail Address
-
shelley.smith@noaa.gov
(shelley.smith@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Eastern Region Acquisitions Division-Kansas City office intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), with EOM Offshore LLC for four (4) 50-foot Ethernet-capable hoses/cables for mooring buoys for the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, MI. The hoses/cables shall have the following specifications: • Shall have eight #22 gauge conductive wires for use with data transfer and power transfer on each end of the cable • Shall be able to stretch 2.5 times its length • Shall have four unshielded twisted pairs for Ethernet speed capability • Shall have mechanical flanges to mate the top and bottom end of the mooring cable to allow for connection to surface buoy and bottom weight/instrument package • Shall be in 50 foot length • Shall have four #24AWG unshielded twist pairs • Shall be shipped in secure prefabricated wooden or plastic container This is a 50-foot stretch hose with two flange adapters. This is a bungee-like cord with electrical wires coiled inside and designed to moor meteorological buoys and allow information and power to be transferred from the top of the buoy to instruments down below. Cables shall be attached to an internally designed meteorological buoy (1.4 meters in size), connecting a conductivity, temperature and depth instrument and video feed, along with acoustic sensors and fish finders, providing the ability to monitor below and have flexibility with the data gathered. This method is much safer than the previous chain mooring methods, which put the scientist in harm's way dealing with rapidly descending chain. The reinforced rubber stretch hose was developed for mooring systems that require a stable platform for sensors or acoustics. It can stretch to two and a half times its original length and serves as a highly effective and robust mechanical isolator between the surface buoy and the quiet lower mooring section. The cable shall have eight -#22 gage conductive wires for use with data transfer and power transfer and four #24 unshielded twisted pairs for Ethernet speed capability. These specifications are due to having two separate cable types, Ethernet (CAT 5) and copper (data and power). This is not a common design or demand. The hose construction makes use of elastomeric-synthetic composite technology for elasticity and strength and also has eight number 22AWG conductors and four 24AWG twisted pairs built into it to allow signals and power to be transmitted along its length. All mooring connections are bolted flanges to minimize other sources of mechanical noise and to enable a modular approach to mooring design. A 50-foot cable is required in order to reach 125-foot depths within the Great Lakes. At this time there are no other known vendors that supply this type of mooring. EOM Offshore is a company spawned from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and have developed this method of mooring buoys/instrumentation and coupling them to seabed instrumentation. Special Notice This special notice is not a request for competitive offers and no solicitation package is available. However, firms that believe they can provide the hoses/cables may submit substantiating documentation in writing within ten days of this notice. Responses can be faxed to Shelley Smith at (757) 664-3633 or sent via e-mail to shelley.smith@noaa.gov. Documentation will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to conduct a competitive procurement, based upon response to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. DOC, Eastern Region Acquisitions Division-Kansas City requires that all contractors doing business with this office be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). No award can be made to a company not registered in SAM. For additional information and to register in SAM, please access the following web site: www.sam.gov. To register, all contractors must have a Dun and Bradstreet number. A Dun and Bradstreet number may be acquired free of charge by contacting Dun and Bradstreet on-line at http://www.dnb.com/eupdate or by telephone at (800)333-0505.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/NOAA/CASC/NRMAF000-15-00517/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, 4840 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108, United States
- Zip Code: 48108
- Zip Code: 48108
- Record
- SN03607100-W 20150102/141231233913-e9e0e4c96f3587e77acfe48230c92b08 (fbodaily.com)
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