| 99 -- Seeking Contractors with Experience with High Resolution Surveillance Sensors/Systems |
| Program Summary |
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| Title: |
99 -- Seeking Contractors with Experience with High Resolution Surveillance Sensors/Systems |
| GovCB Opps ID : |
ADP12036402760001356 |
| Document Type: |
Sources Sought Notice |
| FSC Code: |
99 - Miscellaneous
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| Solicitation No.: |
Reference-Number-NB2212008 |
| Source: |
http://www1.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/USCS/SBIAO/Reference%2DNumber%2DNB2212008/SynopsisR.html |
Place of
Performance: |
Address: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave.,NW Washington, D.C. Postal Code: 20229 Country: UNITED STATES
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Posted Date:
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Feb 21, 2008 |
| Last Update: |
Feb 21, 2008 |
| Due Date: |
Mar 18, 2008 |
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| Description |
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General Information
| Document Type: |
Sources Sought Notice |
| Solicitation Number: |
Reference-Number-NB2212008 |
| Posted Date: |
Feb 21, 2008 |
| Original Response Date: |
Mar 18, 2008 |
| Current Response Date: |
Mar 18, 2008 |
| Original Archive Date: |
Apr 02, 2008 |
| Current Archive Date: |
Apr 02, 2008 |
| Classification Code: |
99 -- Miscellaneous |
| Naics Code: |
334511 -- Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing |
Contracting Office Address
Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Secure Border Initiative Acquisition Office, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Room 7.2C RRB, Washington, DC, 20229, UNITED STATES
Description
1.0 BACKGROUND.
This is a ?Sources Sought? Announcement. The Secure Borders Initiative (SBI) Acquisition Group of the Department of Homeland Security?s (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) organization is seeking information from contractors that have experience with HIGH RESOLUTION SURVEILLANCE SENSORS/SYSTEMS as applied to a northern border riverine environment. The intended area of operation is the Great Lakes Region and associated navigable waterways.
CBP is the executive agent in DHS for the development of SBInet. SBInet?s mission is to plan for, acquire, and field the appropriate combinations of technology and infrastructure to support CBP?s efforts to secure effective control of the border. The SBInet Program is part of the SBI, a comprehensive multi-year, nationwide program sponsored by DHS to secure America?s borders and reduce illegal immigration. The program has a direct impact on CBP?s primary mission to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States while facilitating the movement of legitimate trade and people. The SBInet System Program Office (SPO) provides the resources and capabilities necessary to bring effective control to the Nation?s borders and provides frontline agents and officers with the resources required to achieve border security.
SBInet will prototype and demonstrate an integrated air, land and maritime border security solution in the lower St. Clair River (Algonac, MI) area of operation in the 2008-2009 time frame. The prototype will consist of a mix of ground and air based sensors integrated into a Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) system to provide increased scene awareness in the area of interest. The objective is to detect and track illegal border intrusions which include but not limited to small boats, jet skis, humans walking across ice, swimmers and low flying planes.
The focus of this announcement is the riverine environment. This environment poses unique border security challenges in that the relatively narrow water ways allows for a short time to detect items of interest/vessels, usually operating at high speeds, and once detected allow for little time to develop an useful tracking vector. The needed sensors/sensor systems must be able to rapidly detect items of interest and accurately identify them as persons, marine vessels or winter vehicles. Classification of threat or intent of item of interest is a desired capability.
2.0 MINIMUM OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Northern Border Demonstration Project requires proven mission products to improve surveillance, detection, tracking, and identification capabilities that can be deployed across northern border riverine environments. Operational temperatures range from -26?C to 51 ?C (-15?F to 124?F) and survival temperatures range from -40 ?C to 55 ?C (-40 ?F to 132 ?F). Sensors will operate in surface winds up to 56 km/hr (35 mph) velocity and will survive wind speed up to 145 km/hr (90 mph).
The area of interest will be a mix of urban, industrial and suburban communities. The sensor/system must communicate to a command center beyond line of sight in a secure mode. Four general performance goals for the required solution are as follows: (1.) Provide continuous coverage of the riverine border area of operation with a 95% Availability for Operation (Ao). (2.) Detect 90% of the items of interest crossing the border in either direction with a false alarm rate less than 5%. (3.) Correctly identify 90% of the item of interest as a person or a marine vessel to include ships, pleasure boats, sailboats, skiffs and kayaks with a rate of false positives less than 5%. (4.) Sensor will communicate the items of interest position to the C3I geospatial display with an accuracy within 10 meters; communication may be non-line of sight.
The systems should be commercially available, operationally viable (demonstrable at the Technology Readiness Level (TRL 8/9). The systems should also incorporate open architecture and "commercial-off-the-shelf" (COTS), non-developmental item equipment. System performance, size, weight, availability, user interface, safety and life cycle support will be important evaluation factors. Interested vendors must be capable of demonstrating their sensor systems as an integrated end product and provide operational data to prove the TRL level of their product.
TRL 8 means that the actual system was completed and 'flight qualified' through test and demonstration. The technology has been proven to work in its final form and under expected conditions. In almost all cases, this TRL represents the end of true system development.
TRL 9 means that the actual system was 'flight proven' through successful mission operations. The actual application of the technology in its final form and under mission conditions, such as those encountered in operational test and evaluation. In almost all cases, this is the end of the last "bug fixing" aspects of true system development.
3.0 RESPONSES
This announcement is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the Government to issue a Request for Proposal or award a contract. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted or the Government's use of such information. Sources responding to this announcement should submit the minimum information necessary for the Government to make a determination that the source is capable of satisfying the requirements. Responses to this announcement should include information as to type of sensor system, performance, mean time between failure, acquisition timeline, hardware and program management costs, life cycle support program and modification, integration and operating costs. Acknowledgment of receipt of responses will not be made, nor will respondents be notified of the Government's evaluation of the information received. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against the Government shall arise as a result of a response to this announcement or the Government's use of such information as either part of an evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement.
Responses shall INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: A cover letter identifying the point of contact, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address; DUNS number; and additional documentation such as company literature and brochures; limit submittal to 6 pages including cover letter. A mere referenced website is unacceptable for purposes of this request and will not be considered or reviewed.
Please submit responses to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, /Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) ATTN: Jose Benitez, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Room 7.2, Washington, D.C. 20229. Questions and comments should be submitted in writing and directed to Jose Benitez, Senior Contracts Specialist at FAX (202) 344-2720 or e:mail jose.benitez@.dhs.gov.
Point of Contact
Jose Benitez, Senior Contracts Specialist, Phone 202-344-3097, Fax 202-344-2720, e :mail jose.benitez@dhs.gov.
Point of Contact
Jose Benitez, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-344-3097, Fax 202-344-2720, Email jose.e.benitez@cbp.dhs.gov
Place of Performance
| Address: |
1300 Pennsylvania Ave.,NW
Washington, D.C. |
| Postal Code: |
20229 |
| Country: |
UNITED STATES |
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