A -- OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OF U.S. PRIMARY SEISMIC STATION

Notice Date

March 19, 2001

Contracting Office

Defense Threat Reduction Agency/AM, DTRA Annex, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6201

ZIP Code

22060-6201

Solicitation Number

DTRA01-01-C-0023

Response Due

March 31, 2001

Point of Contact

Contact Shirley Bauer/703-325-6671

E-Mail Address

shirley.bauer@dtra.mil (shirley.bauer@dtra.mil)

Description

Notice of intent to negotiate a sole source follow-on cost no fee contract to Southern Methodist University (SMU), Geophysics Laboratory, Dallas, Texas for the operations and maintenance of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Mina, NV USA primary seismic station PS47. The contract shall have a one year base period and include options for three -- one year each additional periods of performance. Department of Defense (DoD) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) whereby SMU is to maintain and operate PS47 in accordance with International Monitoring System specifications and operational reliability. SMU contributed significantly to the design and operation of seismic arrays developed for CTBT verification applications and possesses the capability to maintain the Mina array to the stringent 98% data availabiltiy rate required by the CTBT. SMU is the only source capable of providing this follow-on effort. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Any other firm desiring consideration must fully identify its capability to perform this requirement. A determination by the Government to not conduct this effort as a full and open competitive procurement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010321/ASOL015.HTM (W-078 SN50G6N0)