NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Procurement Office Marshall Space Flight Center, Al 35812

58 -- PORTABLE TELEMETRY STATION SOL 8-W-6-15-80613 DUE 032996 POC Contract Specialist: GP24-J/Kathy Huskey, (205) 961-0222 Contract Officer: GP24-L/Jane Maples NASA/MSFC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a Portable Telemetry Station -- NASA/MSFC intends to purchase from Terametrix Systems the following items: Item 1: Model 420/AIGB/K1, Quantity: 1 ea., Portable Telemetry Station (maximum size 8.0''H x 13.0''W x 17.0''D and maximum weight 25 pounds) includes the following: a) PB/103 PCM converter card, b) E/Net ethernet card, c) 1 GB SCSI hard disk drive (fixed); NOTE: Items 1a, 1b, and 1c are installed in the portable telemetry station and specifications are listed below -- Item 2: SFT/510 software maintenance agreement for item 1, Quantity: 1 Year, -- The specifications are as follows: As a minimum the portable telemetry station shall be a portable ruggedized 486/66 Mhz instrumentation controller with a fixed 1 gigabyte (GB) small computer system interface (SCSI) hard disk drive and controller, a removable 1 GB SCSI hard disk drive and controller, (1) 3.5'' floppy disk drive, a 10'' internal TFT active color monitor with the capability to run an external monitor, (2) RS-232 serial ports, (1) parallel printer interface, 16 megabyte (MB) random access memory(RAM), AC/DC autoswitching power supply, attached mini-keyboard and a detachable tracker ball -- The internal hard disk drive shall be partitioned into one partition and the drive shall be designated drive C -- The removable hard disk drive shall be partitioned into one partition and the drive shall be designated drive D -- The decommutator section of the portable telemetry station shall meet the following requirements: Minor Frame Sync Length: 16 to 64 bits; Minor Frame Length: 131,072 bit maximum; Number of Frames per Major Frame: maximum of 4096; Input Data and Clock Rates: maximum of 24 million bits per second; Bit Slip: programmable to one 16 bit word length; Bit Order: MSB or LSB selectable on a word by word basis; Programmable Check Dwell: 1 to 7 from Lock to Search, Search to Lock; Data and Clock Inputs: Single Ended (50 or 10 Kohms) or Differential; and Word Lengths: Fixed or Variable -- The bit synchronizer section of the portable telemetry station shall meet the following requirements: Number of Input Channels: 4, software selectable; Input Signal Requirements: Amplitude 0.1 to 20v peak, offset +/- 10v; Input Impedance: 10 Kohm/ 50 ohm, software selectable; Bit Rate: 100 bps to 15 million bits per second; Noise Performance: within 1 dB of theoretical; Resolution: +/- 8%; PCM Input Codes: NRZ-L/M/S, BiPhase-L/M/S, DM-M/S, RZ, RNRZ-11/13/15/17; PCM Output Codes: NRZ-L/M/S, BiPhase-L/M/S, DM-M/S, RZ, RNRZ-11/13/15/17; and Outputs: NRZ-L, PCM Out, 0 Clock, 90 Clock (normal and inverted), Differential and TTL -- The time code reader section of the portable telemetry station shall meet the following requirements: Input Requirements: 0.3 - 10v peak; IRIG Formats: IRIG A, B, and G; Input Code Direction: Forward to Reverse (automatic detection); Resolution: Equal to carrier, 100 Khz for generator mode; and Output: Binary Coded Decimal -- The simulator section of the portable telemetry station shall meet the following requirements: Word Length: 4 to 64 Bits (variable word by word); Words per Frame: up to 32,768 words per frame; Frame per Major Frame: up to 4096; Bit Rate: 100 bps to 15 Mbps; Output Voltage: 5V TTL driven at 50 ohms; and PCM Codes: All IRIG 106-93 Codes -- The portable telemetry station shall have software that operates with all aspects of the station -- The maintenance agreement shall allow consultations and upgrades -- The portable telemetry station shall be delivered with a carrying/shipping case -- All manuals concerning all operating aspects of the portable telemetry station shall be delivered -- This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) portion of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) -- Note: This procurement is sole-source based on proprietary specifications -- Interested firms have until March 29, 1996 to submit in writing their qualifications/capabilities in the critical areas mentioned above -- Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis -- Responses received after March 29, 1996 or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered -- A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract, on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government -- See Numbered Note 22 -- Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice -- Responses must be submitted in writing -- Transmission by facsimile to 205-544-9080 or by Internet e-mail to kathy.huskey@msfc.nasa.gov is acceptable -- The solicitation and any related documents to this procurement will be available over the Internet -- These documents will be in ASCII format and reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using client browsers, such as, MOSAIC -- The WWW address, or URL, of the MSFC Procurement home page is: ''http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov/''. 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