Department of the Navy, NAWCAD Contracts Competency Division, Villa Road, Bldg. 8110, St. Inigoes, Maryland 20684-0010

58 -- GPS GROUND STATION HARDWARE LEASE SOL N00421-00-R-0128 DUE 010700 POC Grace Bean, Contract Specialist, (301) 862-8894; Larry Mattingly, Contracting Officer, (301) 862-8119 WEB: Synopsis is available on the NAVAIR homepage. Click, www.navair.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via, beanmg@navair.navy.mil. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), St. Inigoes, MD intends to contract for a base year and three option years with Honeywell, 5353 West Bell Road, Glendale, Arizona 85308 to lease, maintain, and provide upgrades and manuals to the SLS-2000 Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Station. The resultant contract will reflect either a "lease-to-ownership" or "lease-to-purchase" agreement. The system is required for compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Program as well as the Department of Defense's (DoD) Joint Precision Approach Landing System (JPALS) Program objectives. This acquisition is being pursued on a sole source basis under the statutory authority 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Honeywell is the sole designer, developer, and manufacturer of the SLS-2000, and the SLS-2000 is the only certified (Ground Type Acceptance and Operational Approval by the Federal Aviation Administration) Special Category-1 (SCAT-1) system presently available. THIS NOTICE OF INTENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Interested parties may identify their interest and technical capability to respond to this requirement and may submit information which shall be considered by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Contracts. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Responses to this synopsis should be sent via e-mail to beanmg@navair.navy.mil before 1/7/99. Posted 12/14/99 (W-SN408388). (0348)

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