36--Duncan-Parnell Indy GPS equipment for grave location

INTRODUCTION This is a Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified sources; and (2) whether they are small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; or veteran-owned small businesses. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition is 334511 - Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing with size standard of 750 employees. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government with its acquisition set-aside determination. The National Cemetery Administration (NCA) realizes the benefit of a GIS and GPS program to aid in record verification and reporting. The equipment will be used to capture GPS locational data for daily interments and gravesite marker placement with photographs and other tabular data. In order to benefit from this technology, high accuracy spatial data collection must be performed for all new interment and grave marker locations. Due to the close proximity of gravesites, high accuracy GPS (<=20cm accuracy) is required to ensure differentiation of observations, and collect the positional metadata to diagnose positional discrepancies. While many GPS solutions can provide high accuracy observations, solutions proposed shall not require additional equipment or require connections to various position correction sources. These may not be accessible at every cemetery and can be unreliable, complicating the workflows and increasing cost. Proposed solution must meet or exceed these requirements: GPS equipment to Map cemeteries and mark graves Accuracy: 20 cm or better Must work with ArcGIS Use with a variety of handheld OS to collect data Real-time position correction Direct export to ArcGIS format with positional metadata Other export formats supported including CSV and KML Single point administration Simple set up and use Extended warranty available Company shall be able to have units and a trainer to train the two trainers in place three weeks ARO. There shall be two prices a) Cases, manuals and FOB shipping shall be included in the unit price. b) Cases and manuals shall be included in the unit price, shipping a separate line item NCA estimate the purchases will be spread over 5 fiscal years with 70 purchased at once this year and shipped to 30 locations and 184 purchased over the following four years. INSTRUCTIONS TO INDUSTRY All interested parties are encouraged to respond. 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