NOTICE OF INTENT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT WITH ADAPTIVE TECNOLOGY The General Services Administration intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Adaptive Technology for the Weapons Support Facility (WSF), Seal Beach, CA. WSF provides a wide range of engineering, technical, calibration, systems overhaul, and field engineering services to Navy and Marine Corp activities. This procurement to Adaptive Technology is to provide for completion of ongoing acquisition efforts and engineering of depot development projects. ADP support is required to update delivered depot resources impacted by a released engineering change proposal. System and technology experience requirements include the following: (1) must have direct and comprehensive experience with the following systems: OE-120 IFF Antenna System, MK 56 Telemetry Antenna System, EMI Test Systems, and General Purpose Electronic Test Equipment (GPETE) Calibration, Repair, and Acquisition Program; (2) must have direct experience with the operation and functional design requirements of the OE-120 IFF Antenna System test equipment AdapTech Model 1220 and 1240 peculiar test equipment and AdapTech Model 1900-1100 control and 1900-1200 analysis software resources for the specified systems; (3) must have direct experience with National Instruments and Hewlett Packard IEEE 488 automated hardware and software test resources. Hardware resources includes computer operation, network analyzer instrument control, system test instrument control, and system control. Software resources include test execution, data collection, and collation; (4) must have direct experience with test data reduction, analysis, and presentation software tools (e.g. Excel & Lotus) for OE-120 IFF Antenna System and GPETE Program test results cataloging, evaluation, and demonstration; (5) must be experienced with project administration, engineering data, and technical manual data collection and collation through SQL compliant database development and implementation (e.g. Foxpro, dBase & Access) for Marine Corp technical manuals, DD2 Depth Detector System, GPETE Acquisition Program and MK-56/75 Telemetry Systems; (6) must be familiar with Computer Automated Engineering (CAE) development of printed circuit boards and electronic modules (e.g. Tango Schematic Capture & PCB Board Layout tools) for OE-120 IFF Antenna System equipment and MK-56/75 Telemetry System test resources; (7) must be experienced with two (2) & three (3) dimensional Computer Automated Design (CAD) (e.g. Microstation & AutoCAD) drawing development. The contractor must provide development of equipment, fixturing, and test equipment drawings for GPETE Acquisition Program test equipment and OE-120 Antenna System test resources. Adaptive Technology has been involved in support of ongoing efforts including: technical support for multi-year GPETE acquisitions, OE-120 Antenna Control Unit depot development, and updating OE-120 Antenna Programmer depot capability to achieve compatibility with system ECPs. The Adaptive Technology has proprietary data on the OE-120 test equipment and software. Adaptive Technology is the only source for providing updates to the existing resources necessary to respond to NAVSEA implemented systems design change. The proposed action is for supplies/services for which the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1. The government believes that only one responsible source can provide the supplies/services that will satisfy the agency requirements. The contractor holds the proprietary software. This notice is not a request for competitive quotes but responses received before August 26, 1998 will be evaluated. A determination by the Contracting Officer not to compete this proposed action based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Contracting Officer. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Information should be submitted to GSA/FTS, Attn: Joe Pechinko, Contracting Officer, at (619) 537-2219, or via email at joe.pechinko@gsa.gov. E-MAIL: joe.pechinko@gsa.gov, joe.pechinko@gsa.gov. Posted 08/14/98 (W-SN237344).

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