Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commandant (G-ACS), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second St., SW, Washington, DC, 20593-0001

58 -- 58-DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING (DSC) SYSTEMS!! SOL 00 POC Linda Mullen, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 267-1512, Fax (202) 267-4019, Email lmullen@comdt.uscg.mil -- Cliff Davis, Contracting Officer, Phone 202-267-6201, Fax 202-267-4019, Email cdavis@comdt.uscg.mil WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=R&;ProjID=00&LocID=14. E-MAIL: Linda Mullen, lmullen@comdt.uscg.mil. The United States Coast Guard is issuing a Sources Sought Announcement for information pertaining to shore based MF/HF Digital Selective Calling (DSC) systems. This market survey is being done to identify sources interested in providing DSC systems for installation at Coast Guard Groups and Communications Stations. The DSC system is to satisfy the following general requirements: 1) Meet requirements set forth in ITU 493. 2) Use existing transmitters and antennas. 3) Provide continuous watch of DSC frequency(s), MF for Groups (2187.5 kHz), MF and HF for Communications Stations (all six MF/HF DSC frequencies). 4) Require manual intervention for transmission of acknowledgment calls. 5) Group installation shall have a 120 second delay before a distress acknowledgement call can be transmitted, 60 seconds for Communications Stations. 6) System shall generate a unique alarm for each type of call, as well as for system error messages. 7) System shall maintain an online log of all calls, received and transmitted, as well as all system error messages. All entries are to be date and time stamped. The system shall have the capability of archiving and retrieving this data. 8) The System shall be networked to send call information to the servicing Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) or any other site. 9) The system shall ensure that distress call information has been received at the RCC. An alarm shall be generated if verification of call is not received. 10) The system shall be capable of automatically identifying duplicate distress calls and relays of previously-received/acknowledged distress calls and handling these calls differently from other distress calls (e.g. logging the information but not sounding an audible alarm). 11) The system shall maintain an online, searchable database of all incoming and outgoing calls. 12) The database shall accept free format queries and preformatted queries. 13) The system shall have the capability of generating and printing out reports. 14) It is desired that the system have the capability of generating queries to the Search and Rescue ID (SARID) database at the Coast Guard_s facility in Martinsburg, WV and displaying results. 15) It is desired that the system have the capability of displaying a scaleable map of the world with overlays of each unit_s area of responsibility (AOR), land masses, geo-political boundaries, and plots of distress calls with position data. 16) It is desired that, to the maximum extent possible, the system use equipment which is already supported by the Coast Guard. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this announcement. The response should indicate technical and contracting points of contact and the size of the business. This request for information in no way implies either implicitly or explicitly that respondents will be compensated in any way by the Government for information or materials provided. All information provided becomes U.S. Coast Guard property and will not be returned. All information must be mailed to the U.S. Coast Guard, TISCOM Radio Systems Branch, 7323 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315, ATTN: Jimmy Lee. Posted 04/02/99 (D-SN315695). (0092)

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