SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Argos Satellite Data Collection and Transmission Service
- Notice Date
- 3/30/2012
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- USGS, OAG Sacramento3020 State University Drive East, Suite 2002Modoc HallSacramentoCA95819
- ZIP Code
- 95819
- Solicitation Number
- G12PS00322
- Response Due
- 4/14/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/14/2012
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Riccomini
- E-Mail Address
-
jriccomini@usgs.gov
(jriccomini@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The USGS, OAG Sacramento, intends to enter into sole source negotiations and to award non-competitively an IDIQ contract contract with CLS America of Lanham, MD for Argos satellite data collection and transmission services. Argos is a satellite based data collection and geo-location system which is increasingly used by the USGS to track the movement of migratory wildlife (migratory birds and polar bears are common applications). A small satellite transmitter called a platform transmitter terminal, or PTT, is affixed to the animal of interest and beams either a Doppler based or GPS based signal through the Argos satellite system, tracking the location of the animal with an accuracy of up to several meters. PTT are low power < 1 watt. Due to the increasing research focus on climate change, which bears on polar bears as related to the loss of sea ice, and the concern over avian influenza, which bears on migratory birds as intercontinental disease vector, the USGS has been employing more PTTs in the past several years than ever before. Each active PTT incurs data transmission charges through the Argos system. The Argos system has been operational since 1978. It was established under an agreement between the National Oceanic and Atomospheric Adminsitration (NOAA), the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) and the French NASA equivalent, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Japan, the European Union, and India have since joined the Argos system via decisions to fly Argos equipement on their satellites. In 1986, CNES created a subsidiary, the Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), to operate, maintain, and commercialize the Argos system. Also, in 1986, Service Argos, Inc. and North American CLS were created to service North American customers. In 2006 those two companies merged to form CLS America, Inc., the single company that can provide access to the Argos system for North American users. For North American customers, such as the USGS, the only access to the Argos system, which is critical to the success of the USGS telemetry program, is through CLS America, Inc. This notification is provided to the public because it is considered a "contract action" which requires synopsis. For the reasons discussed above, the UGS intends to enter into sole source negotiations with CLS in accordance to FAR 6.302-1, only one responsible source. In accordance with FAR 5.207(16)(ii), any other responsible sources may submit a capabilities statement or proposal which will be considered by the USGS, provided it is submitted by the closing date of this announcement. No solicitaion will be issued. This announcement and any resulting modification conform to the requirements in place through FAC 2005-57 dated 15 Mar 2012. For further information please contact Joseph Riccomini, Contract Specialist, at 916-278-9347 or jriccomini@usgs.gov.
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