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58 -- OFF-AIR MONITORING SYSTEM SOL NWWP-700871DT POC Doris Turner, Purchasing Agent, (303) 497-3872 or FAX (303) 497-3163 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisition Management, Doris.P.Turner@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS) seeks to purchase an upgraded Off- Air Monitoring System (ROAMS) which is a performance monitoring and alarm reporting product that is installed at all NWS, NOAA Radio transmitter sites. It has the capability to 1) Monitor both digital and analog sites situation signals, 2) detect and report each signal that exceeds a programmable limit threshold, 3) monitor and decode NWS Specific Area Message Encoded (SAME) messages and report programmable fault levels of BER, 4) communicate with both machine (computer modems) and human operators (synthesized voice) when reporting alarm conditions, and 5) perform self-test functions and report faults and/or correct them. ROAMS must be rack mounted in a 19 inch cabinet (1.75 inch height), use less than 10 watts of electrical power (115 VAC), provide 12 hours of battery backup operation, and have a standard dial-up telephone interface with DTMF encoding and decoding. It must havea 300 baud modem and a synthesized speech vocabulary of 33 words and phrases. Interested sources proposing to supply an equivalent system must submit a written qualification statement clearly establishing capability to meet the above requirements within 15 days from the date of this synopsis. The qualification statements will be used to determine the need for competitive bids. In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the intent of the Government to negotiate a sole source contract under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) with INH Technology, 2921 Lacklands, Suite 202, Fort Worth, TX 76116 as this source is considered to be the only responsible source and no other items will satisfy agency requirements. (0204)

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