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58 -- OFF-AIR MONITORING SYSTEM SOL EASC 98-2277 DUE 020398 POC Carrie Houck, Purchasing Agent (757) 441-6648 WEB: EASTERN ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER, www.easc.noaa.gov. E-MAIL: Eastern Administrative Support Center, carrie.f.houck@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 have a 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. 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 (1) with INH Technology, 3211 Norton, Fort Worth, TX 76118 as a source to consider to be the only responsible source and no other items will satisfy agency requirements. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within 15 days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses tothis notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. No telephone requests will be accepted. Numbered note 26 applies. (0014)

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