K -- INTERFACE OF VOA'S AUDIO ROUTER CONTROL SYSTEM

Notice Date

August 30, 2000

Contracting Office

Broadcasting Board of Governors, International Broadcasting Bureau, Office of Contracts (CON), 330 C Street, SW, Room 2500, Washington, DC 20237

ZIP Code

20237

Solicitation Number

BBGCON2800S5153-MB

Response Due

September 18, 2000

Point of Contact

Marlene Brooks, Contract Specialist, Phone: (202) 205-9664; Fax: (202) 260-0855

E-Mail Address

click here to contact the contracting officer via (mbrooks@IBB.GOV)

Description

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), intends to negotiate a non-competitive contract with Lysis, S.A. located in Lausanne, Switzerland, to provide and install a hardware interface and suite of software applications to control and manage the Voice of America's (VOA's) in-house audio distribution router. It is required that the subject Selector Router control system interface seamlessly with the NVision 9303/9304 hardware control panels and database of the existing VOA Master Control routing switcher control system. The latter system was developed, delivered, and installed by Lysis, S.A. The configuration management applications (including automatic loading of mnemonics into control panels) and alarm/status monitoring must be identical to those features in the existing control system in order to maximize Master Control operational consistency and minimize system supervision error and training expense. Based on FAR Subpart 6.302-1 "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements", no source other than Lysis, S.A., can satisfy the Agency's requirement without substantial development efforts which would unnecessarily increase acquisition costs. Period of Performance: 285 days after contract award.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20000901/KSOL002.HTM (W-243 SN491784)