SOURCES SOUGHT
V -- CABLE LAYING VESSEL KMISS - Sources Sought
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 483111
— Deep Sea Freight Transportation
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, MSC DC N62387, 914 Charles Morris Court, SE, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, 20398-5540, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20398-5540
- Solicitation Number
- N62387-MS-PM2-15-033
- Archive Date
- 5/19/2015
- Point of Contact
- Lorrie A Leedy, Phone: 2026856309
- E-Mail Address
-
lorrie.leedy@navy.mil
(lorrie.leedy@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- KMISS MARKET SURVEY N62387-MS-PM2-15-033 27 April 2015 From: COMSC, Special Missions (PM2), N1031 Subject: KWAJALEIN MISSLE IMPACT SCORING SYSTEM (KMISS) THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY AND YOUR RESPONSE IS NOT AN OFFER. THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION DOES NOT COMMIT THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY ANY COSTS INCURRED IN PREPARATION OF ANY SUBMISSION TO THIS MARKET SURVEY, OR TO CONTRACT FOR SERVICES. The Military Sealift Command (MSC), Special Mission's Program Office, PM2, requests information pertaining to the operation of a vessel to support the Government's needs as described below: 1. GENERAL. The Military Sealift Command requires one U.S. flag or foreign flag vessel capable of providing cable laying. The vessel will be required to sail from NAVSTA Guam to the United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA)/ Regan Test Site (RTS) in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). 2. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE. Period of performance is 31 days commencing 08 September 2015 and concluding 09 October 2015. 3. PLACE/RANGE OF DELIVERY. Naval Station Guam, 09 September 2015 4. PLACE / RANGE OF REDELIVERY. Naval Station Guam 5. LAYDAYS. Commencing: 09 September 2015, Cancelling: 09 September 2015 6. EMPLOYMENT OF VESSEL. Charter duration is 31 days. It is estimated the vessel will be at sea 25 days without port calls. The at sea operations are estimated to consist of: a. On-hire in Guam b. Three (3) days load vessel with Government furnished equipment (GFE) in Guam c. Seven (7) days transit to Kwajalein from Guam d. Six (6) days of offshore cable operations e. Four (4) days weather delay contingency f. Seven (7) days transit from Kwajalein to Guam. g. Four (4) days off load GFE in Guam h. Off-hire in Guam 7. AREA OF OPERATIONS/MISSION. The vessel will operate 32.7 nautical miles (60.6 kilometers) North of the Kwajalein Island. a. The mission will require 24 hour cable laying operations. The vessel shall deploy two (2) undersea cabled sensor systems provided as GFE. b. The vessel shall remain in position for an estimated 24 hours during the cable in-haul. c. The government provided divers will assist in visually providing feedback of the cables entering an existing horizontally drilled pipe and recovery of trunk cable ends. d. The cable payout and vessel position will be controlled by the U.S. Government. e. The proposed cable laying speeds of the vessel is anticipated to be 0.5 to 3.0 knots. f. The mission will require post cable deployment video inspection of cable down to a water depth of 1,500 meters. 8. CERTIFICATION: The vessel shall be inspected or certified by the U.S. Coast Guard or classed by a classification society such as the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) or equivalent classification society. 9. VESSEL CHARACTERISTICS/CAPABILITIES. The vessel shall have the minimum following characteristics and capabilities. a. Length: i. Minimum 100 meters. ii. Maximum 150 meters. b. Draft: i. Maximum draft 8.5 meters. c. Endurance: i. Minimum 29 days at sea. d. Transit: i. Minimum 10 knots. e. Range: i. Minimum transit 1,608 nautical miles (2,978.99 kilometers). f. Freeboard: i. Maximum 10 meters at the stern. g. Stern/Bow Sheave: i. Stern roller must have a minimum throat width of ½ meter for the safe passage of repeaters over this roller. The roller shall be a minimum 3 meter diameter. 10. PROJECT SUPPORT PERSONNEL AND BERTHING. The vessel shall be able to accommodate 12 project personnel (possible 2 females). In addition to the crew, the vessel shall provide berthing and four (4) hot (1 night meal), cafeteria style meals per day. The vessel shall provide clean berthing, linen, heads, and shower facilities for project personnel. The vessel shall provide an English interpreter if crew members are not fluent in English. 11. FACILITIES. The vessel shall provide adequate working space to include: a. A table or counter (minimum 3 square meters) to operate available electronic equipment for the entire duration of the operations of the bridge. b. The work space shall be equipped with heating/air conditioning as appropriate and the aforementioned electrical power. c. The work space shall provide adjacent bridge penetrations for GFE cable runs from the deck and one (1) GFE antenna installed above the bridge for basic communication. 12. Deck Equipment, Crane, A-Frame. The vessel shall be equipped with the following deck equipment, crane, and A-Frame: a. A Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) crane or A-frame and be able to deploy a vessel provided ROV. b. The vessel shall have a crane and sheave that can reach overboard for loading cable. 13. Deck Space. The vessel shall have deck space to accommodate the following: a. 50 square meters adjacent to the vessel's cable tanks and on the same deck as the deployment machinery. Deck space will be required to store 20 repeaters outside of the cable tanks and the two 20 feet (ft.) x 8 ft. [length by width] ISO CONEX boxes. b. A repeater weighs 390 pounds, length overall is 133 inches, width 12 inches, height 24.5 inches. It is anticipated that the repeaters would all lay parallel to each other. Each repeater has an up/down runner or cable going into/out of the cable tanks. 14. Electrical Power on Deck: The vessel shall provide the following electrical power on deck: a. 110-120 volt, 50-60 hertz, two single phase 20-amp circuits with a minimum of 4 outlets are required on the bridge to power GFE personal computers, printer, external hard drives, etc. b. 110-120 volt, 50-60 hertz, single phase, 10 kilowatts electrical power for one (1) container. 15. Cable Machinery and Handling Equipment: The vessel shall provide the following cable machinery and handling equipment: a. A linear cable engine (LCE) with a minimum 16 ton pulling capacity. The vessel LCE will be operated by the vessel crew to deploy the GFE. b. The vessel shall have an overhead lifting device to move the repeaters from the storage area to the stern/bow sheave for passage outside the LCE. An example of an overhead lifting device is an I-beam supporting a trolley and chain-fall hoist. The vessel shall make any ship modifications for passage of the repeaters outside the LCE. c. A repeater weighing 182 kilograms. d. A capstan or equivalent style winch to transfer the cable load from/to the repeaters during passage of the repeaters outside of the LCE. 16. Cable Capacity: The vessel shall be equipped with the following: a. 2 cable tanks. A single tank shall be capable of containing 50 km of cable and a second tank shall store the spare cable. The tanks shall accommodate rings to further segregate different cable types with each tank. b. Machinery to load the cable. 17. Cable Inspection Tools: The vessel shall be equipped with the following cable inspection tools: a. A ROV rated for 1,500 meter depth. b. The ROV shall be operated by the vessel. 18. VESSEL MANEUVERABILITY: The vessel shall be equipped with a Dynamic Positioning (DP-1) System and be capable of maneuverability under the following conditions: a. The system shall be capable of holding station (with reference at the stern) within +/- 5 meters of a designated position (i.e. within 10 meters diameter circle) for up to 24 hours in weather conditions of Beaufort Wind Scale Number 5 (Winds 16-20 knots, moderate waves 2-3 meters in height, some foam and spray) within a heading allowance of +/- 60 degrees. b. The DP system shall be capable of "tracking between multiple waypoints" along a designated track within +/- 25 meters (50 meter wide corridor) at steady speeds of 0.1 to 3.0 knots for continuous periods of several days in weather conditions of winds up to 26 knots and waves up to 3.6 meters and within a heading allowance of +/- 60 degrees. c. The GPS shall be referenced at the stern and provide the center of rotation at the stern. d. The vessel shall have the ability to load a predetermined list of waypoints and be able to track between those waypoints without sudden changes in speed or heading. e. The vessel shall provide the government with real-time output from vessel's DGPS, gyro, and cable deployment equipment (cable count, cable speed, and overboard tension) to input into the government supplied MakaiLay System. The vessel shall provide the DGPS signal and subscribe to the service providing DGPS corrections. 19. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED EQUIPMENT (GFE): The following GFE will be provided: a. (2) 20 x 8 feet CONEX boxes; one contains cable splicing equipment to performed by the Government as necessary (estimated weight is 20,000 pounds), the second contains boxes of spare materials (estimated weight is 33,000 pounds). b. 50 kilometers of cable c. 20 repeaters including joints d. (2) Antenna's and associated cable runs. The Government will be responsible for loading and offloading the GFE. The vessel shall have the capability to secure the GFE on deck. The total weight of the GFE will be 23 metric tons. 20. OTHER REQUIREMENTS. The vessel shall be capable of transferring personnel from the Port of Kwajalein to the vessel if pier space is not available. The government crew does not anticipate transiting with the vessel. The government crew will embark/disembark at the Port of Kwajalein. a. The vessel shall permit commercial divers to work near the stern of the vessel while offshore in the OPAREA. b. Diving operations will be performed by a small boat provided as GFE. Operations do not require vessel support. 21. PORT OPERATION. Berthing facilities will be provided by the U.S. while vessel is docked at NAVSTA GUAM. If the crew contains Foreign Nationals, they must remain on the vessel at all times while docked. 22. Interested Parties Shall Furnish the Following Minimum Information: a. Company name, address and point of contact including telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address b. DUNS number and cage code c. Business size status d. Brief summary of company history relative to similar requirements e. Daily charter hire rate and fuel consumption rate. f. Any pertinent questions and/or comments g. Offeror shall provide vessel specifications in response to the market survey 23. MSC requests responses no later than on 0900 hours Washington, DC local time 04 May 2015. Point of contact is Lorrie Leedy who can be reached at (202) 685-6309 or lorrie.leedy@navy.mil.
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- Address: Guam, Guam
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