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58 -- GLOBAL BROADCAST SERVICE (GBS)-SHIPBOARD ANTENNA SYSTEM (SAS) SOL N00039-97-R-0086 DUE 091897 POC Mr. Pedro lamdagan, Contract Specialist,(619) 524-2873; Ms. Ellen H. Polen, PCO, (619) 524-2449, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, 53560 Hull Street, OT-2, Room 157, San Diego, CA 92152-5002 WEB: click here to download zip files related to GBS-SAS, http://raven.spawar.navy.mil. E-MAIL: click here to contact the contract specialist via e-mail, lamdagap@nosc.mil. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has a requirement for the designing and building of Shipboard Antenna Systems (SAS) as part of the Global Broadcast Service (GBS), a world-wide, high throughput broadcast (one-way) service of data and video products supporting push and user pull paradigms. The SAS will be a receive-only, shipboard satellite communications antenna group operating at Ka and Ku-band frequencies. GBS is part of the MILSATCOM architecture and extends the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII). The SAS will automatically acquire and track Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) and commercial satellites in a geosynchronous orbits while subjected to environmental service conditions, including ship motion. The SAS will amplify and translate the received signals to an L-band intermediate frequency (IF) range, and provide the IF signal to a Government-supplied integrated receiver-decoder (IRD). The SAS will be integrated by a system integration contractor with other equipment to form the Ship Receive Suite (SRS). The SAS will be installed as either a single or dual antenna configuration. Depot maintenance will be Contractor-provided. Radar-cross section verification may be ordered as an option to the GBS- SAS. FOB Destination. This procurement is expected to emphasize modifications to low cost, commercially available hardware and software. The contract type will be indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity with firm-fixed-price supply items and with time and material and cost plus fixed fee provisions for service items, for a contract duration of a base period from date of award through 30 September 1998 plus five one year option periods thereafter. The procurement is an unrestricted, full and open competition, and all responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. The Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) is 3663. A draft request for proposal document for the planned procurement will be available on the SPAWAR Bulletin Board forinformation and industry comment. The file will be compressed by a shareware program, EXE, and located on the Draft Procurement Files menu item, in Microsoft Word Ver. 6.0 format. SPAWAR intends to use its electronic bulletin board system (BBS) for pre-solicitation and for the issuance of any resulting Request For Proposals (RFP). Interested firms may download information concerning the GBS-SAS from the SPAWAR Bulletin Board. The SPAWAR electronic bulletin board may be accessed from PC or MACINTOSH computers by calling (703) 602-9494. The World Wide Web version of the SPAWAR BBS is at http://raven.spawar.navy.mil, under the draft directory of the procurement files menu item. Comments will be accepted until ten (10) days after release of the draft request for proposal on the SPAWAR Bulletin Board. Comments should be sent to the following point of contact by voice at (619) 524-2873 or via Internet at lamdagap@nosc.mil. Comments provided via Internet should be in Microsoft Word Ver. 6.0. This is not a Request For Proposal (RFP), nor does the Government intend to pay for the information solicited. Proprietary data, when so designated, will be protected. Acknowledgment of receipt will not be made. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted by SPAWAR.***** (0199)

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