SOURCES SOUGHT
H -- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Support
- Notice Date
- 3/3/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 811219
— Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NESDIS Acquisition Division, SSMC3 - Room 10100 1305 East West Highway, 10th Floor, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-DMSP-03-03-2006
- Response Due
- 4/17/2006
- Archive Date
- 5/2/2006
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT: The National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS) intends to extend an existing sole-source contract with Harris Corporation effective May 1, 2006, through April 30, 2007, for a period of 12 months due to significant resource issues at the NPOESS Integrated Program Office (IPO) from November 2004 to the present time. However, it is the government?s intent to conduct a competition after this bridge contract. The purpose of this contract is to provide Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) support for the DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NPOESS program. Further, the Government requires an enduring and survivable capability to provide the United States military with accurate worldwide weather information. This capability is provided by the DMSP, which collects and disseminates global visible and infrared cloud data in support of worldwide operations and high priority programs. The global data must be provided in a timely manner to users at the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) and Fleet Numerical Meteorological Operations Center (FNMOC). The DoD also needs a capability to collect and disseminate other specialized meteorological, terrestrial, oceanographic, and solar-geophysical data to users. Users require these services through all levels of conflict in which they are capable of surviving. DMSP consists of a space segment, link segment, ground segment, and user segment. Each DMSP satellite has a 101 minute, sun-synchronous near-polar orbit at an altitude of 830km above the surface of the earth. The visible and infrared sensors (OLS) collect images across a 3000km swath, providing global coverage twice per day. The combination of day/night and dawn/dusk satellites allows monitoring of global information such as clouds every 6 hours. The microwave imager (MI) and sounders (T1, T2) cover one half the width of the visible and infrared swath. These instruments cover polar regions at least twice and the equatorial region once per day. The space environment sensors (J4, M, IES) record along-track plasma densities, velocities, composition and drifts. There are currently 6 operational DMSP satellites on orbit: two are designated primary, two are secondary, one is partially operational, and one is reserved for testing only. The DMSP mission is expected to continue until 2019. The DMSP ground system network is an earth based command, telemetry, and data processing system providing all functions for the state of health maintenance, communications, sensor payload data retrieval and dissemination, and launch and early orbit support for the DMSP constellation. The ground segment consists of the Suitland Operations Control Center (SOCC), Suitland, MD; Environmental Satellite Operations Center (ESOC), Schriever AFB, CO; the Payload Integration Test Facility (PITF), Vandenberg AFB, CA; AFSCN tracking stations at Hawaii, Thule Greenland, New Boston, NH; NOAA tracking stations in Fairbanks, AK, and Wallops, VA; user sites at AFWA, Omaha, NE, and FNMOC, at Monterey, CA. Other operational support nodes include Onizuka AFB, CA and the DMSP SPO at Los Angeles AFB, CA. Future operational nodes may include McMurdo Ground Station, Antarctica, and the Svalsat Ground Station in Svalbard, Norway. GROUND SEGMENT REQUIREMENTS: Support for the ground system will include hardware and software component supply, repair, test, maintenance, upgrade, and technical support. System upgrades, which include new technologies, software releases, and commercial off the shelf (COTS) components, shall be integrated into existing legacy systems in such a manner as to ensure requirements for timely and enduring data delivery are met. Current software/OS consist of: Open VMS, Windows NT/2000, Unix, Oracle, MS SQL, PVWAVE, EPOCH, and What?s Up Gold. Programming languages consist of Fortran, C++, Ada, and PERL. Network protocols consist of TCP/IP and DECNET. The Command Control and Communication (C3) system uses COTS and custom built hardware and software to provide satellite S-Band (2207.5?2252.5 MHz) command up-link and data down-link capability. This includes equipment such as the Telemetry and Command System (TCS), Dual Decommutator and Command processor (DDCP), System Communications Unit (SCU), ARTS Interface Unit (AIU), Aiken Switch, and Data Quality Monitor (DQM). The TCS is a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) platform running custom code that maintains satellite telemetry and command databases, generates satellite loads and commands, archives data and logs for engineering analysis, provides information for display on operations consoles and controls overall ground system function. The DDCP is a custom designed device that provides decommutation and time-tagging of DMSP real-time and stored payload telemetry and outputs data via TCP/IP to the TCS via custom developed code. It performs DMSP satellite command and load formatting, authentication, and echo check verification as well as provides KG control. Command and control, telemetry, and mission data up-link and down-link flows through cryptographic processors including KG-61 and KG-144. The SCU is a custom designed device that provides point-to-point and broadcast inter-site communications via a TDM scheme and specialized formatting to ensure the reliable delivery of DMSP mission, telemetry, and commanding data between DMSP ground locations. The AIU is a modified, commercially available command processor that provides a direct interface with AFSCN tracking sites. The Aiken Switch is a 20+ year old legacy component that provides switching and routing of DMSP DOMSAT links, SCUs, and TCS strings. The input and output of all DMSP commanding and telemetry routes through and is controlled by the Aiken Switch. DQM is a Windows XP based custom coded tool that allows users and operators to monitor data quality as it is down-linked. DQM will provide the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) with a robust switching capability for multiple DOMSAT streams for its ingest processors. The DMSP ground system network provides interconnectivity between all sites, users, and operations centers with TCP/IP based communications systems, DOMSAT links (3.2256 Mbps), and T1 connections. The network is presently divided into three subsystems: Communications, Switching, and Processing. Many network components are integrated into more then one subsystem. DMSP C3 support shall include in-depth comprehension of the DMSP C3 system, from operator interface to satellite command, control, and data recovery through to data receipt, quality monitoring, and ingest at AFWA and FNMOC. DMSP C3 support will also include sustainment engineering for mission unique software, independent test analyses and problem isolation. The Government requires Level 1, 2, and 3 for depot level support on all operational and spare hardware. The Government requires a ground segment mission reliability of 99.8%. The ground segment operational availability rate will be 99.7% with a mean time between critical failures of the ground segment greater than 328 hours. The mean time to repair the ground segment shall be less than 1 hour and the maximum corrective maintenance time of all repair actions shall not exceed 3 hours. AFWA and FNMOC shall receive 100% of global smooth data within 10 minutes of downlink, and 100% of find data within 4 hours of downlink. SERVICES INFORMATION: Required services will include technical support to all DMSP equipment at any site. Technical support includes development, integration, and preventive and corrective maintenance. DMSP will need supply storage at a Contractor depot location for all depot items. The Contractor shall furnish all facilities, parts, materials, data, equipment and services. In order to meet the timely data delivery requirements, the Program will require on-call emergency technical support to any DMSP ground segment site, system engineering and analysis of ground segment equipment, configuration management, and feasibility studies for system enhancements and modifications. The Program also requires sustaining engineering, system performance analysis, and test support. Because of the use of legacy equipment, component and operational system modifications will be needed. Modifications will include design, develop, fabricate, test, produce, manufacture, install modification kits and update all required technical documentation. Support for the DMSP ground segment will include interaction and in-depth knowledge of the AFSCN, access to AFSCN sites, and support at AFSCN technical meetings. DMSP support includes launch and early orbit support for DMSP spacecraft, providing ground system expertise and on-site support to the operations command center in Suitland MD. Interaction with government and other contractors, as well as independent work, for launch and early orbit anomaly resolution related to the DMSP ground system will be required. In addition, the contractor shall be able to send and receive equipment to CONUS and international locations, work with foreign governments and contractors to track, inventory, and/or transfer custody of equipment. A SECRET clearance is necessary for this effort. Services will include part-time availability of a knowledgeable engineer with access to Schriever AFB, CO, and a full-time engineer in Suitland, MD. Engineering labor categories include software, system, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and quality assurance. Other labor categories may include scientist, program management, administrative, and logistics. DMSP requires investigating new technologies, software releases, and commercial off the shelf (COTS) technologies, and then testing and integrating these new acquisitions into the current system. The Contractor will be expected to develop a long term system engineering and sustainment plan for DMSP C3 and provide the government with recommendations and milestones to sustain the ground network. All hardware and software upgrades will meet the Department of Commerce?s Information Technology security requirements. Steps are near completion to begin replacement of the System Communications Units (SCUs) within the DMSP ground system. These steps included tasks needed to identify, test, and demonstrate potential commercial equipment that can enable NOAA to potentially transform its data handling of DMSP bit stream data to an IP switched packet network. It also included the associated design work to integrate the selected replacement device into the ground system with the least possible impact. Work to procure, install, integrate and test the SCU replacement devices within the ground system will need to be started during this effort. All responses, which must have substantial documentation that addresses the requirements in this announcement in order for the Government to determine if your company is able to do the work required, must be received within 45 calendar days for the posted date of this Notice of Intent and addressed to Paula Frickey, POC, Phone 301-713-4791, Fax 301 427-2164, Email Paula.Frickey@noaa.gov. This is an on-going effort and no down time will be acceptable for any of the segments. Marilyn Whaley, Contracting Officer, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NESDIS Acquisition Division, SSMC3 ? Room 10100, 1305 East West Highway, 10th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
- Place of Performance
- Address: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD
- Zip Code: 20910
- Country: U.S.
- Zip Code: 20910
- Record
- SN00998857-W 20060305/060303212059 (fbodaily.com)
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