Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Contracting & Materiel Management Department, L-650, P. O. Box 5012, Livermore, CA 94551

58 -- MULTI-SITE TRUNKED RADIO SYSTEM. POC Brad Tuvey, 510/423-2327 The University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), seeks to identify suppliers of trunked land-mobile radio systems designed for narrow-bandwidth digital voice and data communications in the 406-420-MHz government band. LLNL plans the lease-to-own purchase of a turn-key system, including vendor-supplied design and installation services, that will provide seamless, wide-area communications to users of two-way radio equipment at LLNL and its Site 300 (an experimental test facility located approximately 17 miles east of the Livermore site), with possible extensions to other San Francisco Bay Area DOE facilities. Primary users will include Laboratory emergency services organizations (fire safety and safeguards and security) as well as plant maintenance, transportation, and programmatic groups. The system will consist initially of 10 trunked repeater channels at Livermore and five at Site 300, a voting receiver system (if necessary) at each site, and up to 12 dispatch workstations. Each site will have fully redundant standby systems; communications between Livermore and Site 300 will be through an existing, redundant, high-speed microwave link. The system will have multi-site capability, that is the ability to control repeater stations and to dynamically identify and track mobile and portable radios throughout the entire coverage area. Systems proposed by vendors must be capable of digital modulation and secure-voice communications using Data Encryption Standard in the manner approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Emissions in all communications modes must comply with regulations of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration mandating use of narrow-bandwidth (12.5-kHz) channels. Because government ownership of critical communications equipment is mandatory, submissions from organizations proposing to retain ownership of the communications backbone, such as radio services providers, are not acceptable. When bidding for the backbone system suppliers will also be requested to provide an 18-month price commitment to LLNL for the purchase of mobile and portable units. The Laboratory expects to release a Request for Proposal in the summer of 1995, with contract award to be made on or about December 1995. Any vendor desiring to be included in the source list should send a written Expression of Interest to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-643, Livermore, CA 94551 ATTN: Brad Tuvey by May 30, 1995. Telephone responses will not be accepted. This notice is for information and planning purposes only; it does not constitute a solicitation for bid or proposal, and it is not to be construed as a commitment by LLNL or the University of California. This notice is to assist the University in determining the potential for competition; no solicitation is currently available. (0116)

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