U. S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office, P. O. Box 2001, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

58 -- MULTI-SITE TRUNKED LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR OAK RIDGE OPERATIONS POC Karen Shears (865)241-6411 (Contract Specialist), Connie Hinton (865)576-1111 WEB: Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office Procurement, http://www.oro.doe.gov/procurement. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist via, shearsks@oro.doe.gov. This is a request for expressions of interest. The Department of Energy is contemplating issuing a request for proposals for the installation of a multi-site, trunked land mobile radio communications system for the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Oak Ridge Operations (ORO) facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The DOE is interested in the design, supply, installation and operation of a complete "turn-key" radio communications system meeting the needs and requirements of ORO's mission. The contractor may be responsible for supplying system infrastructure including radio repeaters, control equipment, switching equipment, computers, software, management systems, service equipment, equipment shelters, enclosures, generators, antenna systems, towers and other support equipment required to implement a complete radio communications system. Implementation of this system is expected to be completed by the end of 2001. The system will be a trunked, narrow-band land-mobile radio system including a complete system infrastructure, dispatch console system, and a limited number of subscriber units. It will be a multiple site system operating in the 406-420 Mhz federal government radio frequency band. The system shall be a state-of-the-art, dual-mode, narrow-band (NTIA definition 12.5 Khz channelization bandwidth), digital and analog trunking radio system, and shall fully meet the requirements of APCO-25, including the digital Common Air Interface (CAI) and trunking standard. It will incorporate Digital Encryption Standard (DES) voice encryption systems for secure subscriber and operator console communications. The radio system will be a single integrated system providing high reliability performance within the three primary DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, and wide area coverage of all areas between these facilities and wide area coverage of the general Oak Ridge region. Government system analysis indicates a minimum four repeater-site system will likely be required to provide the necessary radio coverage, performance and redundancy. The new system will incorporate re-usable, existing radio system components where the re-use, including system integration cost of those existing components is reasonably expected to result in a viable cost savings to the government. Equipment intended for re-utilization includes a single site 7-channel Motorola Smartnet trunked radio system, an operator console system incorporating three Motorola CentraComm Series-II Central Electronics Banks (CEB's) and 12 operator positions, 470 Motorola MTS-2000 and 22 Motorola XTS 3000 narrow-band capable portable radios, seven Motorola Astro Spectra narrow-band capable digital radios, 10 digital capable Quantar repeaters, approximately 12 DES Key Variable Loaders (KVL), four existing communications tower facilities, central control facilities, and intercommunication link facilities. It is the intent of ORO that the contractor will utilize this existing Narrow-band capable equipment, and the existing repeater facilities to as large an extent as practical for the new system. The system will be required to provide service to a minimum of 4,000 subscriber radio units. Forty channel pairs will be available to implement the new system. If your company is interested in providing this new system to DOE, please respond by answering the following questions: (1) What is your company's experience and capabilities related to these types of systems? (2) Would you need to team with another company to perform this effort? (3) What is the history of your company (when was it established, where is it located, primary business lines, primary business customers, etc.)? (4) What is the size of your company (gross annual sales, number of employees, etc.)? (5) Do you plan to: (a) utilize the existing equipment described above, or (b) provide a cost-competitive alternative which meets the requirements? (6) Please provide a brief description of your technical approach to this radio system. The information used herein is for planning purposes only. This is not a request for proposals. Any resulting solicitation will be announced in the Commerce Business Daily at a future date. Companies interested in bidding in any resulting solicitation must be able to receive a favorable Foreign Ownership and Control Influence (FOCI) determination. Any technical questions concerning this request should be directed to Connie Hinton, telephone (865) 576-1111, or hintoncd@oro.doe.gov. Please submit three copies of your response, in 30 pages or less, to Karen Shears at the address stated herein, or electronically to shearsks@oro.doe.gov no later than August 8, 2000. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: ORO is responsible for the operation of several Government facilities located in Oak Ridge,Tennessee. These facilities provide critical support to the nation's nuclear weapons program, scientific research, environmental management and other associated US DOE programs. The daily radio communications between safety, security, emergency response, maintenance, general operations personnel, field personnel and personnel in transit is conducted presently by a variety of single channel and multiple channel conventional and trunking wide-band analog radio systems. The existing systems service approximately 4,000 subscriber radio units located at the three primary DOE facilities in Oak Ridge. This existing radio communications infrastructure will be replaced for a variety of reasons including public law, departmental mandate for radio spectrum efficiency, improvement of emergency preparedness, limited existing expansion capacity, and the general obsolescence of the existing radio communications systems. Posted 07/25/00 (W-SN478570). (0207)

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