58 -- Survival Radios

The contract identified as N00019-02-R-3170, initially issued on July 31, 2002, pertained to the sole-source procurement of various survival radio equipment and related services. It involved acquiring approximately 10,325 AN/PRC-149 Personal Locator Beacon Voice Transceivers, around 800 Swimmer Control Units (SCU), about 880 AN/URT-140 Emergency Locator Transmitters, along with associated services and data from Tadiran Spectralink, Inc., a company based in Holon, Israel. The procurement was overseen by the Naval Air Systems Command under the Department of Defense. This solicitation, posted in October 2002, was intended to support survival radio needs but has since been cancelled in its entirety. No alternative set-aside arrangements or specific NAICS codes were indicated. The contract was primarily organized through the Naval Air Systems Command office located in Patuxent River, Maryland. The cancellation means all planned acquisitions under this contract, including the significant quantities of radio transceivers and related units, will no longer proceed under this specific solicitation.