Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport Commercial Acquisition Department, Code 09, Building 11, Newport, RI 02841-5407

70 -- NTDS INTERFACE BOARDS SOL N66604-96-Q-A058 DUE 102695 POC Contact Joseph Masterson, Contracting Officer at (401) 841- 2442 X290 FAX: (401) 841-4820 The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, RI plans to award a sole source contract, Brand Name Mandatory, to Sabtech Industries, Anaheim CA for acquisition of eight (8) each VMS NTDS Type B/C/H I/O Boards,(Part #HK-02101-00) and eight (8) each Adapter Modules, C-Hawke to AN/UYK-7 (81511) 85 Pin, (Part #AM- HK028-00). This requirement is in support of the Advanced Surface- Ship Access Conversion Project for the Computer Support Facility. In order to meet the Government's minimum needs, the following salient characteristics must be met: (1) Each NTDS interface board must have a 6U form factor, occupy no more than a single slot in the VME bus, and comply with the VME Revision C.1 standard (IEEE P1014). The parameters of the NTDS transfer must be programmable in software. (2) Each NTDS interface board must provide full duplex NTDS B transfer capability, with separate word-count registers and time out counters for the input and output NTDS Channels (3) Each NTDS interface board must be capable of receiving multiple forced External Interrupts (EIs), and generating multiple forced External Function (EF) words. (4) Each NTDS interface board must use differential receivers on the NTDS interface. (5) Each NTDS interface board must be capable of operating as an A32/A24:D32/D16 slave device, responding to commands across the VME bus from a host controller (6) Each NTDS interface board must also be capable of operating as an A32/A24/A16:D32/D16 VME bus master (7) Each NTDS interface board must be capable of generating interrupts on the VME bus. Each NTDS interface board must not be required to use the VME bus to externally access the register on the NTDS interface board that controls the generation of the VME bus interrupts. (8) Each NTDS interface board must provide an EPROM socket for a 32-pin standard package, capable of storing at least 512 kBytes of application software developed by the user, and capable of executing this user application software on the NTDS interface board. (9) Each NTDS interface board must be capable of interfacing with military computers and peripherals that spport the MIL-STD- 1397B protocol. The physical connection to the NTDS interface must be via an adapter board inserted in the back of the VME bus backplane, and cabling from this adapter module to a mil-spec, 85 pin, AN/UYK-7 connector at the rear wall of the VME enclosure, so that no NTDS cables are required to connect to the front of the VME enclosure. (10) Each NTDS interface board must provide at least two kBytes of battery-backed static memory, and at least 512 kBytes of dynamic memory. (11) Each NTDS interface board must provide a real time clock, accessible by user application software. (12) Each NTDS interface board must provide a RS-232 interface, so that the user can communicate with the NTDS interface board using a standard serial terminal. It is acceptable for the RS-232 port to be on the front panel of the NTDS interface board. (13) Each NTDS interface board must have on-board firmware that provides self-test diagnostics and a debugger (14) Each NTDS interface board must allow its VME base address to be modified by the user, so that multiple NTDS interface boards can be used in the smae VME bus backplane. This equipment shall be delivered to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Detachment, New London, CT within 45 days after award of the contract. An oral request for quotations shall be employed under Simplified Acqusition Procedures (SAP). It is anticipated that this award will be made on a sole source basis to Sabtech Industries because it is the only manufacturer that can provide interface boards that will allow Navy computers using the NTDS standard to ''talk'' to commercially made, single board computers using the VME bus while meeting all of the above salient characteristics. All responsible sources that believe they have the capability to meet the requirements set forth above are invited to submit cost and technical data which will be fully considered. Award shall be made on or about 27 October 1995. The Government shall orally request written quotations from Sabtech and any other vendor that can meet the Government's minimum needs. No formal solicitation will be issued. See Note 22 (0278)

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