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J -- SATELLITE MASTER EARTH STATION AND MICRO EARTH STATION MAINTENANCE SOL 1434-CR-97-QQ-00213 DUE 051497 POC Vicki Holland, Contracting Officer, (303) 236-5900 ext 350 USGS has a requirement for a contractor to provide maintenance coverage on a Master Earth Station and 66 Micro Earth Stations. Salient characteristics: Extended warranty/full coverage maintenance of Master Earth Station (MES) equipment located at 1711 Illinois Street in Golden, CO, and of 66 Micro Earth Stations (uES) located throughout the contiguous United States. Performance period is from June 1997 through June of 1998 with 4 year options. Service must include telephone support, remote fault diagnosis, and the overnight exchange of components as needed. If problem cannot be remedied as outlined above, the contractor must dispatch a technician to Golden, CO, to repair within 24 hours. At least one on-site MES preventative maintenance trip will be scheduled per year. The existing satellite system comprising the MES and uES was acquired from Scientific-Atlanta in 1990 -- the system operating software and much of the hardware, including the burst demodulators, outlink modulators, fail-over redundancy, and uES digital processing unit. Offerors will be required to have an intimate knowledge of the satellite system from end-to-end, to have a spares inventory of critical MES components, to have uES spares pool, and depot repair facilities. Interested firms should respond in writing prior to 5-14-97, requesting a copy of RFQ 1434-CR-97-QQ-00213. No telephone requests. Only written requests submitted directly by the requestor will be accepted. Requests may be submitted by FAX to (303) 236-2710. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the agency. RFQ has a tentative issue date of 5-15-97 with an estimated closing date of 5-28-97. (W-120 SN067979) (0120)

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