US Army, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey 07703-5008

58 -- GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL CRITICAL CONTROL CIRCUIT (GTC3) SOL DAAB07-98-R-A211 DUE 031698 POC Point of Contact -- June E. Stone, Contract Specialist, 732-427-1629. Contracting Officer -- Kevin F. Coakley, 732-532-5798. E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail the POC, stonej1@doim6.monmouth.army.mil. The Government has a need to replace the current Smart Multi-Circuit Terminal (SMCT) System with new or upgraded Hardware/Software, that provides real-time, global subscriber-to-subscriber, message service for Terrestrial Critical Control Circuits (TCCC). The upgrade will provide a number of additional enhancement that will implement: Improved routing and message archival; Improved message error correction/alert; Rapid and responsive network and local node reconfiguration; Refined user friendly audit trail access and retrieval; Detailed message statistics, and extended error message files/with greater storage capacity; and either attended or remote operation, which will extend the life of the DSCS control system. The upgrade to SMCT II is one of a number of subsystems intended to be replace/upgraded, in order to achieve the future Objective DSCS Operations Control System (ODOCS) configuration. The SMCT(III) architecture shall conform to the ODOC interface requirements documents, be modular, and easily extensible, to support other potential control assets such as commercial, and/or future satellite system control requirements. SMCT(III) shall be compliant with the Army Technical Archictecture and support the ODOC Operational Requirements Document (ORD). Interested persons are invited to identify their interest and current capability to respond to the requirement by by forwarding a written reply addressed to US Army CECOM Acquisition Center, Attn: AMSEL-ACCA-A-AB(JES), Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008, by COB 16 Mar 98. Replies should include a summary of the necessary supplies and services to provide approximately 120 each GTC3 Systems which includes 20 each Control Nodes. Also, a brief description of the company's technical capability to provide existing commercial off the shelf equipment or the ability to modify off the shelf equipment to satisfy the program should be provided. This is not a request for bids or proposals but serves as a notice to interested organizations. (0057)

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