SOLICITATION NOTICE
18 -- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), MARK IVB Letter Contract
- Notice Date
- 9/13/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541710
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, SMC - Space and Missiles System Center, 2420 Vela Way, Suite 1467, El Segundo, CA, 90245-4659
- ZIP Code
- 90245-4659
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-DMSP-MARKIVB-73
- Response Due
- 9/28/2004
- Archive Date
- 10/13/2004
- Description
- This proposed contract action is being synopsized in accordance with Numbered Note 22 due to the likelihood that award to any other source than the incumbent would result in unacceptable delays in the fulfilling the agency's requirements. The Space and Missile System Center, Detachment 11/PK, 1050 E. Stewart Ave., Peterson Air Force Base, CO 80914-2902 will be awarding a sole-source Letter Contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation, Integrated Systems & Solutions, 3201 Jermantown Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 no later than 30 Sep 04. The period of performance for this effort will consist of a base of one year plus two six month options. The MARK IVB System is a meteorological data ingest, processing and dissemination system. Meteorological data is obtained (i.e., ingested) from U.S. domestic (i.e., Department of Commerce) and foreign meteorological satellites, both polar orbiting and geostationary. Once processed by the MARK IVB, this data is made available to analysts and forecasters located worldwide. The software used by the analysts and forecasters is MARKIVB software?it is fully system integrated with the MARK IVB ingest sites. The data ingest is useless without the analysis software. With analysis software it becomes useful and useable information. The MARK IVB systems are installed in six operational locations worldwide. Operating sites are located at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, Kadena AB, Japan, Andersen AB, Guam, Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Lajes AB, Azores and Sembach AB, Germany. While the MARK IVB was originally designed as a stand-alone, self-contained meteorological ingest and processing system, where analysis and forecasting was accomplished on site, it has evolved into a network-centric enterprise system where analysis and forecasting is accomplished off site. As a key component of the Joint METSAT Imagery Software and Terminals (JMIST) system, the MARK IVB provides high-resolution METSAT data to authorized users worldwide on a near-real time, 24/7 basis. The remote users employ one of two MARK IVB software applications (Generic Imagery Dissemination System and PC Forecaster) and network connections to access, download, display and manipulate the MARK IVB meteorological data. The MARK IVB server software operates in a real time UNIX environment. The maintainer and client software applications operate in the Windows XP environment. The meteorological data is first ingested and processed by the RF segment of the MARK IVB, it is then sent to the data server where it is reformatted into a MARK IVB unique format and mounted on the data server for dissemination to authorized users. The maintainer application contains a variety of system configuration, satellite ingest scheduling, maintenance and analytical tools. A future upgrade to the system will replace the Unix server with a Windows server, making the entire MARK IVB Windows-based. The MARK IVB automatically collects Geostationary and Polar meteorological data directly from satellites without reliance on other means of communications. The data streams consist of visual and infrared imagery and mission sensor data. The MARK IVB also has the capability to generate satellite pass schedules, error messages and log status and audit events. The vast majority of the MARK IVB system is comprised of Commercial Off-the-Shelf hardware and government-owned software and must be continually upgraded to meet evolving mission requirements due to new satellite launches and forecasting techniques, and to avoid technical obsolescence. The majority of the MARK IVB sustainment effort is software maintenance, with about a 90%/10% split between software and hardware sustainment. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested companies with the capability to perform in support of this requirement are encouraged to participate and contact Lockheed Martin. The small business size standard for this requirement is NAICS 541710. This announcement is for information and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government. Verbal responses will not be accepted.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Hickam AFB, Hawaii; Kadena AB, Japan; Andersen AB, Guam; Elmendorf AFB, Alaska; Lajes AB, Azores; Sembach AB, Germany and two systems at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (one developmental and one for training).
- Record
- SN00671226-W 20040915/040913212151 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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