SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Installation of New, and Maintanance of Existing Light OLMS Equipment - Table 1: Light OLMS Parameter Requirements
- Notice Date
- 12/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, 3833 S. Development Avenue, Jack F. Wilson Bldg., Boise, Idaho, 83705-5354
- ZIP Code
- 83705-5354
- Solicitation Number
- SN-2011-03
- Point of Contact
- Fredrick K Geijsbeek, Phone: 208-387-5682
- E-Mail Address
-
fgeijsbeek@fs.fed.us
(fgeijsbeek@fs.fed.us)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- Table 1: Light OLMS Parameter Requirements The U.S. Forest Service is contemplating the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) in the near future for the purchase and maintenance of Operational Loads Monitoring System (OLMS) equipment. Any new equipment installations will be on Contractor and Government-owned aircraft. Maintenance of Operational Loads Monitoring System (OLMS) equipment will be on 31 previously installed, Government owned, OLM systems manufactured by Appareo Systems built around their GAU2000 acquisition unit (http://www.appareo.com/products/usfs.php). These aircraft are involved in aerial firefighting and have been instrumented for the purpose of determining aerodynamic operational loads experienced within the low level fire suppression environment. The purpose of this interest announcement is to obtain market research on interested vendors and the business size standards of the interested vendors. During fire fighting operations, the workload for both the air and ground crew are quite intense. Therefore, the recording system installed on these aircraft must rely on minimal intervention by the flight and/or ground crews for data acquisition, supplemental data collection and merging and finally the data transfer to the Forest Service contracted server on which the Library Database resides. Operational Loads Monitoring System (OLMS) Requirements. A OLMS is comprised of all equipment required for recording, signal conditioning, sensors, transducers, wire harnesses, installation hardware and data extraction (download/ upload) equipment required to acquire, record and transmit variations in required parameters (Table 1) as experienced by a firefighting aircraft during flight and ground operations in accordance with the parameters from Table 1 as attached in FedBizOps. • All material and components shall meet or exceed appropriate aircraft specifications and be installed by appropriately rated FAA entities. • Sample data shall be furnished to ensure compatibility with data requirements in the Forest Service operational loads Library Database software solution supplied by nCode International under contract to the US Forest Service. • The OLMS Recorder shall have the capability of recording up to 100 flight hours of data, have crashworthy data storage weigh less than 3 pounds, and be able to monitor the parameters listed on the attached table and sample and record at the rates specified. Desirable System Attributes - Wireless Data Upload. Period of Performance will be base year and four (4) options from award through October 21, 2011 and subsequent years through 2015. Interested vendors wishing to participate in this market research are requested to provide the following information in response to this announcement: COMPANY NAME COMPANY ADDRESS COMPANY POINT OF CONTACT BUSINESS TELEPHONE NUMBER BUSINESS FAX NUMBER SIZE STANDARD OF COMPANY TYPE OF BUSINESS (NOTE: DO NOT send proprietary or pricing information in response to this announcement) Provide the requested information in writing, by close of business 07 January 2011 to the following address: U.S. Forest Service Contracting National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) 3833 South Development Avenue Jack Wilson Building Attn: Mr. Fred Geijsbeek Boise, Idaho 83705-5354 The submission of this information does not obligate the Government to make a purchase as the market research information will be used for planning purposes only. Points of Contact: Mr. Fred Geijsbeek, Contracting Officer (CO), Phone: (208) 387-5682.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FS/024B/SN-2011-03/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: TBD, United States
- Record
- SN02344448-W 20101217/101215234022-6cdac62d06ae91db85a311786f204a08 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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