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58 -- HIGH FREQUENCY SONAR SAIL ARRAY SOL N66604-99-R-2011 POC R. L. Hall, Contract Negotiator at (401) 832-1522; N. Palmisciano, Contracting Officer at (401) 832-1708; FAX (401) 832-4820. WEB: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/. E-MAIL: Richard Hall, Contract Negotiator, hallrl@npt.nuwc.navy.mil. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) proposes to acquire approximately 21 shipsets of a new High Frequency Sonar Sail Array over a five year period. Each shipset includes a hydrophone array, projector array and foundation. The hydrophone array is a semi-cylindrical 800 channel modular array organized as 80 vertical staves of 10 elements each. Ten adjacent staves are housed together to form a module. Major array components include piezoelectric transducer elements, analog signal conditioning and digitization electronics, digital telemetry electronics, and power supply conditioning circuits. The array is located in the top leading edge of the sail behind an acoustic window. The projector array is a cylindrical array consisting of 24 rings of 13 elements each, and is located in the sail below the hydrophone array, also behind the acoustic window. We anticipate that the contract will be a firm-fixed price supply contract with options for shipsets and spare modules. First year production quantity will be one shipset. Second, third and fourth year quantities will be two, four, and fourteen respectively. Fifth year quantities will be for a yet-to-be-determined number of spares. Delivery will be 1 July 2001 for the first shipset. (All delivery dates are firm.) Contract award is planned for October 1999 or sooner. Second year deliveries will be one shipset October 2001 and one shipset July 2002. Third year deliveries will be two shipsets October 2002, one shipset January 2003, and one shipset April 2003. Fourth year deliveries will be four shipsets October 2003, five shipsets January 2004, three shipsets April 2004, and two shipsets July 2004. Award will be made on the basis of best value. Evaluation factors are past performance, approach, resources and price. The formal request for proposals will be released no sooner than 1 July 1999. The solicitation will not be commercial and will be unrestricted. Proposals will be due 30 days after RFP release. The Government and the University ofTexas /ARL have designed, built and tested a prototype system. The Government intends to acquire production items similar to the prototype. The Government requests that potential offerors review the design and specification and provide comments to the contracting officer (hallrl@npt.nuwc.navy.mil <mailto:hallrl@npt.nuwc.navy.mil&;gt;) and engineer (winfreywp@am.npt.nuwc.navy.mil) concurrently. Offerors are cautioned not to include proprietary information in their comments, as all comments may be included in the RFP. The design drawings are available from (winfreywp@am.npt.nuwc.navy.mil). (Provide name of firm, address, and CAGE code.) Potential offerors should assess the degree to which the drawings are adequate to build a successful production item, noting any conflicts, missing essential details, or aspects, which unnecessarily drive costs or limit competition. Comments on the drawings should be received at NUWCDIVNPT by 19 FEB 1999. The Government will provide potential offerors -- with appropriateclearance -- copies of a performance specification (with classified addendum) on or about 1 MAR 1999. Potential offerors should assess whether the specification is achievable and consistent with the drawing, advise what commercial specifications and standards are appropriate, and note aspects which unnecessarily drive costs or limit competition. Comments on the specification should be received at NUWCDIVNPT by 1 APR 1999. Potential offerors may request the specification from the engineer at the above address. Provide information necessary for transmission of classified data. In the interest of allowing the program to forecast funding requirements with greater accuracy, potential offerors are asked to provide the contracting officer with rough estimates of the likely shipset costs, noting the degree to which prices are sensitive to quantity and schedule. The estimates will not be disclosed outside the Government, and sources will not be identified. The estimates are not binding and do not effect selection. Offerors should estimate the price of fabricating items which meet the performance specifications and conform to the drawings, and estimate the price of fabricating items which meet the performance specifications but deviate from the drawings. Proposed deviations must be clearly identified and will not be released outside of the government. Our department no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Instead, they may be accessed at our web site http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contracts. We also provide electronic access in our Bid Room. Estimated RFP release date: 01 July 1999; SIC Code: 3669. Posted 01/19/99 (W-SN289043). (0019)

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