J -- J-MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE SCIENCE DATA NETWORK (SDN) ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY

Notice Date

January 26, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commandant (G-ACS), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second St., SW, Washington, DC, 20593-0001

ZIP Code

20593-0001

Solicitation Number

DTCG23-01-R-65S014

Response Due

February 10, 2001

Point of Contact

Augustine Green, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 267-2530, Fax (202) 267-4019, Email agreen@comdt.uscg.mil -- Augustine Green, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 267-2530, Fax (202) 267-4019, Email

E-Mail Address

Augustine Green (agreen@comdt.uscg.mil)

Description

The Coast Guard is seeking sources to provide network management, configuration management and maintenance support for the Science Data Network (SDN) installed on board three Coast Guard Polar Icebreakers -- USCGC Healy, USCGC Polar Star, USCGC Polar Sea and the shore-side SDN Test Bed network that is used to support the shipboard network. All three cutters are homeport is at the USCG Integrated Support Command (ISC), Pier 36, Seattle, Washington. The Coast Guard requires maintenance support service on or about 1 June 2001. The maintenance support includes all management, supervision, personnel, labor, material and equipment, which includes technical representative visits or telephone consultations for troubleshooting and repairing equipment via phone, facsimile, or on-site visits (homeport and world wide, as required); configuration management services; consumables and repair parts. The following list is not all inclusive for all three cutters, but the list covers the major SDN components to be supported under this contract: SDN Server Random Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Level 5, Data Acquisition Computers (DAQs), SDN Mail Server Keyboard, Video Monitor & Mouse (KVM), KVM Switch, Master Clock Date/Time Code Generator, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, WINDOWS Workstations, Apple-Macintosh Workstations, Silicon-Graphics Workstations, Laptop Computers, Plotters, LaserJet Printers, and Color Printer. The SDN was designed and installed by Electronics Design Integrators (EDI), New Orleans, LA. The Coast Guard anticipates a one-year contract with options to extend the contract not to exceed four additional years. The maintenance support contractor shall maintain a quality program that complies with ISO-9001. The SDN is a computer network consisting of 2 stand-alone segments: a data acquisition ring and a data analysis ring. Each ring consists of one pair of redundant fibers in a 16 fiber, fiber optic cable plant loop around the cutter. Data is transmitted at 100 megabits per second on the loop. In the data acquisition ring, two data acquisition computers draw data continuously from several fixed sensors and stand-alone data gathering science systems installed on board the cutter. These sensors monitor various environmental conditions such as water temperature, wind speed, etc., and various navigational data such as gyro heading, cutter_s speed and position. Additional ports are installed to provide the capability to collect data from temporary sensors or data capture systems installed for specific missions. The data processing ring of the network is equipped with 120 Ethernet ports, which can handle 120 different scientists_ computers operating at 10 megabits per second each through Ethernet to fiber switches. The data acquisition ring and the data processing ring are integrated by a single SDN server, which is connected by two separate Network Interface Cards (NICs) to the two rings. The server provides the scientist user_s only interface to the SDN data, which eliminates the possibility of corruption of the smooth acquisition and archiving of sensor data on the data acquisition ring. The SDN server operating system is WINDOWS NT. _Wonderware_ Factory Suite software and the embedded _InTouch_ visualization component are employed in the commissioning and the de-commissioning of external network sensors and the development of Man-Machine Interface (MMI) systems. The data analysis ring supports the use of numerous software applications with diverse operating systems including DOS, Apple/MacIntosh, LINUX, Silicon-Graphics (UNIX), and Solaris. Interested vendors must provide proof of at least three years experience in computer network design, technical support and/or network management support in computer systems with comparable complexity to that described above. Vendors must provide proof of experience/familiarity with computer network hardware and software similar to that used in the HEALY SDN. Vendors must also provide information on their future accessibility to the ship_s crew and shore support personnel via telephone, electronic mail and fax. All interested parties have up to15 days from the publication of this synopsis to request a copy of the Request For Proposal (RFP). All correspondence should be addressed to: Commandant (G-ACS-5/AGS), 2100 Second Street SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001_Note 22 applies. Signed: Augustine Green-Smith, Contracting Officer.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010130/JSOL003.HTM (D-026 SN50B9J0)