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58 -- PROVIDE NORTHROP-GRUMMAN ALR-73 PASSIVE DETECTION SYSTEM SIMULATOR SOL N66001-99-R-5042 POC Mark Hartsough, Contract Specialist (619) 553-3853 WEB: Click here to download a copy of the RFP., http://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via, hartsaw@spawar.navy.mil. SSC SAN DIEGO intends to negotiate a firm fixed price, sole source, contract with Northrop-Grumman Corporation, Bethpage, NY, to design, develop, fabricate, test, deliver, and install an ALR-73 Passive Detection System Simulator (PDSS). The Government is not competing this requirement since Northrop-Grumman Corporation designed and built similar models of the ALR-73 PDSS under two previous sole source contracts for the governments of France and Taiwan. Competition of this procurement would require other bidders to incur excessive bid and proposal costs as well as reverse engineering, design, development, fabrication, and testing, during the product development stage, on a product with no volume market demand. Additionally, the delays experienced in competing this procurement would be detrimental to the timely integration of the PDSS into the electronic warfare information database. Copies of the RFP may be obtained from the SPAWAR Business Opportunity Home Page at "http://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil". No hard copy versions of the solicitation will be available. Solicitation Document to be issued on or about 31 July 99. See numbered note 22 (Notes posted in any Monday edition of CBD). Posted 07/13/99 (W-SN353617). (0194)

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