DOT/RSPA/Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02142

67 -- 67 -- THERMAL INFRARED IMAGING CAMERA SOL DTRS57-95-R-00031 POC John Sheehy, Contract Specialist, 617-494-2440, Donna Brickley Contracting Officer, 617-494-3661. The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center has an need for a Westinghouse 10X, 3X Micro-Forward Looking Infrared Thermal Imaging camera or equal that meets the following salient requirements. It must have a detection range for vehicles to five miles and field of view to ten degrees. The camera shall have a full environmental enclosure which meets MIL-STD-810E for humidity, rain, ice, freezing rain,sand and dust. It shall operate 28 VDC and be qualified to MIL-STD-1275A. The system shall have no radioactive materials. The camera unit shall contain a heater for de-icing the viewer window and wiper blade for clearing it during bad weather. The unit shall not weigh more than 28 lbs. The camera shall have a digital signal processor, a RS-170 video output, and a RS-422 two way control interface. The aspect ratio of the camera shall allow active video to fill virtually the entire available area (min. 95%) of the standard monitor without image distortion or blank areas. The camera shall have an automatic and manual gain and level control. The spectral band shall have a range of 8 to 12 microns for infrared long wave detection and the detector used should be a multi-element unit (8-bar SPRITE) for added accuracy and be cooled by a closed cycle cryogenic cooler from greater temperature differential detection. The performance of the camera in the narrow field of view shall be no less than 50 MRADS horizontally and 37.5 MRADS vertically, and in the wide FOV no less than 200 MRADS horizontally and 150 MRADS vertically.The cooler shall have a throttle back mode accessible via the RS422 link that allows the system to cut back to under 35 WATTS in stand by mode. The cooler shall have a MTBF of over 4000 hours. Material to be delivered to the Volpe Center within 90 days of contract award. In the absence of responses from firms who can demonstrate their capability to perform this requirement, the Volpe Center intends to negotiate with Westinghouse Electric Corp. on a noncompetitive basis for the item described above. The authority for this action is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c)(1). All responsible sources may respond to the synopsis and all responses will be fully considered by the agency. Interested firms are asked to submit 2 copies of descriptive literature on the above item to the Contracting Officer within 15 days form the published date of this notice in the Commerce Business Daily. No contract will be make on the basis of offers/proposals received in response to this synopsis since this notice is not a request for offers/proposals See numbered note 22. Responses must reference Procurement Request No. 502-261. For Minority Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Officer of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquir short-term working capital for transportatin-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The mazimum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at 800-532-1169. (0152)

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