Commercial Acquisition Department, Bldg 11, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, Code 59, Simonpietri Dr., Newport, RI 02841-1708

A -- ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT SOL N66604-00-Q-4043 DUE 042800 POC C. Boehler, Contracting Officer at (401) 832-1489; FAX (401) 832-4820 WEB: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport, http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/. E-MAIL: Carol Boehler, Contracting Officer, boehlercg@npt.nuwc.navy.mil. NUWC intends to award a sole source Fixed Price contract to Materials Systems, Inc. (MSI), Littleton, MA for nonrecurring engineering to include: design and test 8-channel preamplifier to give low noise to fit in the linear package; fixtures and tooling to produce the 8-element flat array; costs and tooling to produce the 8-element curved array. The contractor shall also develop eight element curved receive arrays per Government specifications. MSI is developing conformal bow arrays jointly with NUWC and is the sole source capable of procuring the required ACOMMS hull-conformal arrays. See Note 22. 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/contract/. We also provide electronic access in our Bid Room. Estimated RFP release date: 21 APRIL 2000; SIC Code: 8711. Posted 04/20/00 (W-SN447105). (0111)

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