A -- European Mid-Course Radar Intent to Award Notice

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has a requirement to establish a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) European Mid-Course Radar (EMR) site. The EMR will perform ballistic missile acquisition, tracking, object discrimination, and kill assessment functions, and interface with the existing BMDS Command & Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system. The EMR is critical to the spiral development of the BMDS. The X-Band radar shall have sufficient power, aperture, bandwidth, and metric performance to meet stringent mid-course accuracies for both tracking and discrimination. The contractor shall be capable of providing low risk integration of the radar with the components of the existing BMDS architecture. To effectively meet these requirements, the contractor shall upgrade and relocate (including disassembly/reassembly) an existing MDA X-Band radar to fulfill the European Mid-Course Radar (EMR) requirement. This radar is the Ground Based Radar - Prototype (GBR-P) currently located at Kwajalein Missile Range. The design, upgrade, disassembly/reassembly, build, integration, check-out, and standup of the EMR is scheduled to be completed by the fourth quarter of calendar year 2011. The EMR is a highly complex, integrated system of hardware and software coupled with tactical and non-tactical communications equipment that allows for the acquisition, tracking, discrimination, and the real-time reporting of ballistic missiles. The BMDS EMR will face a range of dynamic and technically complex system integration issues. The EMR components shall be integrated together and into the overall C2BMC system of the BMDS. The BMDS EMR System shall be compatible with the current BMDS architecture and shall support future system upgrades, expansion, or deployment of new BMDS components. In addition to the X-Band radar, the EMR system requires support buildings, security and force protection features and accommodations, radar control facilities, billeting, infrastructure such as power, water, sewers, storm drainage, secure communications links and support until EMR System acceptance and turnover to the lead military department. Site planning and design is required for interfaces for all EMR System components, with traceability to the component requirements. The contractor shall also integrate all Government and Contractor Furnished Equipment, including radar controls, radar real-time and non real-time software, radar simulations, diagnostics and calibration tools, commercial communications systems and other related tactical/non-tactical communications and radar equipment, into the design, development, and installation of hardware and software to support the EMR activation and operation. Site build out and activation includes site development, build out of the tactical and non-tactical facilities and related infrastructure, communications links, equipment emplacement and activation, facility commissioning, and installation and checkout to include subsystem and system level tests (SSCO/SICO). The contractor shall implement procedures to ensure consistency and synchronization with evolving MDA X-Band development efforts. Due to the complexity of the overall BMDS mission, the integration portion is crucial to the success of this project. The contractor shall coordinate delivery, installation, and integration of hardware provided under other contracts to ensure synchronization across all contracts. The Raytheon Company designed, built, and continues to operate the GBR-P at Kwajalein. Raytheon also provided the design, construction, integration, and operation of MDA's current BMDS X-Band forward based radars (AN/TPY-2), and the X-Band Radar aboard the Sea-Based X-Band (SBX). MDA intends to negotiate a contract with Raytheon Corporation for this integrated radar system under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1(a)(i) - only one responsible source. As the developer of the aforementioned X-Band radar family, Raytheon is the only company that can provide the required radar upgrades, maintain the radar performance requirements, and provide integrated fielding efforts. Utilization of any other source would result in unacceptable delays in deploying the radar to the operational site and jeopardize mission performance resulting in a substantial duplication of cost to the Government that could not be recovered through competition. Entities that plan to assert that they are qualified to perform this effort must submit a statement of corporate capabilities relevant to this effort, not to exceed 5 pages in length, to the PCO no later than the closing date of this synopsis. Entities interested in subcontracting possibilities should contact Raytheon directly. THIS SYNOPSIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AND DOES NOT REPRESENT A COMMITMENT ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR AWARD A CONTRACT. THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PAY FOR ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYNOPSIS.