SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Agent Portable Surveillance System (APSS) - 2015-03-26 APSS Request for Information
- Notice Date
- 3/26/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334511
— Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Border Enforcement Contracting Division - Mountain Branch, 4760 N Oracle Rd, Suite 100, Tucson, Arizona, 85705, United States
- ZIP Code
- 85705
- Solicitation Number
- HSBP15APSSRFI
- Point of Contact
- Nicole S. Hubby,
- E-Mail Address
-
OTIA-APSS@CBP.DHS.GOV
(OTIA-APSS@CBP.DHS.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 2015-03-26 Official APSS Response Form (Attachment A) 2015-03-26 APSS Request for Information BACKGROUND: CBP currently deploys an effective mix of fixed and mobile sensors to enhance situational awareness through border surveillance between ports of entry. Among the mobile sensor capabilities is a limited number of Army-developed Cerberus Scout-Light systems, referred to as Agent Portable Surveillance System (APSS), that were acquired for purposes of a technology demonstration. CBP intends to replace these with a more versatile and effective re-locatable capability, as described below. A capability shortfall exists in areas where causes such as terrain masking or sudden changes in border incursion routes create blind spots in the surveillance network. To reduce and eliminate such blind spots, CBP has a need for a modular agent-portable surveillance system (APSS), using sensors which may include radar, infrared camera, electro-optical camera, and associated components, to fill in temporary surveillance gaps. PURPOSE: This RFI seeks to obtain information from industry about potential systems that will provide CBP with insight into market conditions, capabilities, and/or scientific advances that will aid in the formation of an acquisition strategy and the refining of the functional requirements for a new APSS-like system. The desired system will enable detection, tracking, identification, and classification of illegal incursions. The system is expected to provide Border Patrol Agents (BPA) with improved situational awareness between Ports of Entry (POE) by reducing detection and surveillance gaps along the borders and should assist BPAs in responding to and resolving such incursions. Additionally, this RFI is designed to assist CBP in making a set-aside determination as required by FAR 19.5. Since the determination has not yet been made, CBP encourages all potential offerors, both large and small, to participate in the Request for Information. SCOPE: CBP is interested in obtaining information on commercial and non-developmental systems which are currently existing, fully developed, and integrated portable surveillance systems to provide the desired capability, and not systems in the developmental phase. CBP values an open systems approach. CBP desires RFI responses from current APSS candidates that meet, at a minimum, Technology Readiness Level 7 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 7 and to reach maturity within one year. There is no intent to develop any systems under this program. SUBMISSIONS: Interested parties are requested to submit a completed Official APSS RFI Response Form (Attachment A) via the email address OTIA-APSS@CBP.DHS.gov within 15 calendar days of this RFI fbo.gov posting date
- Web Link
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(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/USCS/SBIAO/HSBP15APSSRFI/listing.html)
- Record
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