SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Sources Sought, Wolfhound Radio Direction Finding System Multi-Language Capability
- Notice Date
- 9/22/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334210
— Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W15P7T) Division B, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 21005-1846, United States
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- MARKET-SURVEY-6060-1
- Archive Date
- 10/28/2016
- Point of Contact
- Steven Cooper, Phone: 443-395-6992
- E-Mail Address
-
steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil
(steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT MARKET SURVEY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN INVITATION FOR BIDS, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), OR REQUEST FOR QUOTES. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. REQUESTS FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. Any information submitted by respondents to this synopsis is strictly voluntary. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any cost associated with the submission of information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred to the interested parties for responses. The Government is under no obligation to conduct discussions or request a demonstration. Issuance of this market survey does not restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The United States Army CECOM Security Assistance Management Directorate (SAMD) is conducting this market survey to determine potential sources capable of fulfilling a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirement. This market survey is to determine sources capable of developing, producing, delivering, and training a new display head and Wolfhound Unit upgrades for Afghanistan Wolfhound Radio Direction Finding (DF) Systems that meet requirements listed below. The U.S. Government requests that interested parties submit a white paper describing their proposed system and their corporate capability to design, develop, test, produce, deliver, and train the upgrades to the Afghanistan Wolfhound Radio DF System. Upgrades consist of a new display head as well as multi-language upgrades to the Wolfhound Unit that meet below-listed requirements. The new display head shall: 1. Accept inputs, display outputs, save profiles, settings and data, and produce reports in Dari, Pashto, or English characters (selectable) and Western Arabic (i.e. 0, 1, 2) or Eastern Arabic (i.e. ٠,١,٢) numerals (selectable). Language selections shall be accomplished without system reboot or exiting sessions. 2. Be capable of incorporating additional selectable language capabilities (such as Arabic or Farsi) without hardware additions or upgrades. 3. Permit the quality and speed of Wolfhound system performance to be equivalent to, or better than, the current English version regardless of which language is selected. 4. Use the same Wolfhound system menu trees as the current English version and use the same software license/version for all selectable languages. 5. Be equally user friendly as the current English version and not spontaneously switch from one language to another without user direction. 6. Permit the user to roll back to previous known software working versions. 7. Be capable of wireless and wired connectivity providing handheld display and control capabilities for the Wolfhound Radio DF System with a minimum of 4 GB DDR3 RAM and 128 GB SSB storage memory/disk. Be compatible/interoperable with the Wolfhound Radio DF system. 8. Be capable of incorporating additional audio and touch screen (with stylus) language capabilities as discussed above at the discretion of the user. 9. Provide audio assistance in the use of device/touch screen buttons at the discretion of the user. Permit headset connection for quiet audio. At a minimum, allow the user to adjust device volume and screen brightness. 10. Meet MIL-STD 810G ruggedization, MIL-STD 461F Electromagnetic Compatibility, and Ingress Protection 67 (IP67) Immersion standards. Wolfhound Unit upgrades shall: 1. Accept inputs, display outputs, save profiles, settings and data, and produce reports in Dari, Pashto, or English characters (selectable) and Western Arabic (i.e. 0, 1, 2) or Eastern Arabic (i.e. ٠,١,٢) numerals (selectable). Language selections shall be accomplished without system reboot or exiting sessions. 2. Be capable of incorporating additional selectable language capabilities (such as Arabic or Farsi) without hardware additions or upgrades. 3. Permit the quality and speed of Wolfhound system performance to be equivalent to, or better than, the current English version regardless of which language is selected. 4. Use the same Wolfhound system menu trees as the current English version and use the same software license/version for all selectable languages. 5. Be equally user friendly as the current English version and not spontaneously switch from one language to another without user direction. 6. Permit the user to roll back to previous known software working versions. 7. Not require any hardware or firmware modifications or additions. Format: Interested parties are requested to respond to this market survey with a white paper in Microsoft Word Office 2007 compatible format. Responses are limited to 15 pages, including cover and administrative pages. Response documents should be written using a 10 point font size or larger. The paper must include company name, company address, overnight delivery address (if different from mailing address), cage code, point of contact, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number; business size, unique qualifiers (e.g. large, foreign, small disadvantage, veteran owned, woman owned, etc.). The Government acknowledges its obligation under 18 U.S.C. 1905 to protect information qualifying as confidential under this statute. Pursuant to this statute, the Government is willing to accept any proprietary (e.g., trade secret) restrictions placed on qualifying data forwarded in response and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure subject to the following: 1. Clearly and conspicuously mark qualifying data with the restrictive legend (all caps) PROPRIETARY with any explanatory text, so that the Government is clearly notified of what data needs to be appropriately protected. 2. In marking such data, please take care to mark only those portions of the data or materials that are truly proprietary (over breadth in marking inappropriate data as proprietary may diminish or eliminate the usefulness of your response-see item 3 below). Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected. 3. The Government is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the Government or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the Government will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in the possession of the Government will be protected in accordance with the Government's rights in the data. 4. Proprietary data transmitted electronically, whether by physical media or not, whether by the respondent or by the government, shall contain the proprietary legend, with any explanatory text, on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail and the beginning of the file itself. Where appropriate for only portions of an electronic file, identify where the restrictive legends proprietary portion begins and where the proprietary portion ends. Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to the Point of Contact, steven.c.cooper8.ctr@mail.mil. Verbal questions will not be accepted. Questions will not contain proprietary or classified information. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after 12 October 2016 will be answered. Response Deadline and Submissions: Parties may begin submitting responses to this request for information immediately with all white paper submissions due no later than 13 October 2016. Contracting Office: 4310 Boothby Hill Ave., ACC-APG Division D, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
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