Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) Land Mobile Radio (LMR) System upgrade Sources Sought

The Army Contracting Command- Rock Island is issuing this sources sought synopsis to identify companies capable and qualified to relocate existing dispatch equipment to a new dispatch center at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) and provide new Maestro dispatch consoles. All equipment must be 100% interoperable with the existing Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system and programming platform in operation at APG. The resulting contract will be firm-fixed price for hardware and services. The first requirement is to move and relocate the existing interoperability radio equipment. It also includes seven (7) new fully configured antenna systems to support the seven (7) existing interoperability radios. This effort will consist of hardware, installation, and configuration, testing. The Period of Performance (PoP) for the relocation and new antenna systems is six (6) months from contract award followed by a 12 month period for warranty. The second requirement is for six (6) new Maestro Dispatch Consoles for the new dispatch center to increase their dispatch capability. The new Maestro Dispatch Consoles shall include a back-up solution for each console and shall have interfaces that enable the implementation and operation of Voice Logging Recorders (VLR), data transmission and capable of accepting Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD). The back-up solution shall consist of a CS7000 desktop control station connected to a new fully configured UHF antenna system and a dedicated Uninterruptible Power Source. This effort will consist of engineering, hardware, installation, and configuration, testing. The PoP for the new Dispatch Consoles and backup solution is six (6) months from contract award followed by a 12 month period for warranty. NOTICE: THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. This sources sought is for market research only and does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this sources sought is purely voluntary; the Government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. If your organization has the potential capability, please provide the following information: 1. Point of Contact Information: a. Company Names: b. Address: c. Point of Contact: d. Phone Number: e. Email address: 2. Please identify your company's small business size standard based on the applicable NAICs code of 334220 and 334290. The Small Business Size Standard for 334220 is 1,250 employees and 750 employees for 334290. For more information refer to http://www.sba.gov/. a. Large Business Concern b. Small Business Concern c. 8(a) d. Small disadvantaged Business (SDB) e. Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) f. Historically underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) g. Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) h. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) 3. If you identify your company as a Small Business or any of the SB subcategories as stipulated in Question 2 above, is your company interested as a prime contractor for the effort? 4. Does your company, as the prime, possess the capabilities to independently provide the entire range of hardware and services identified in above? You must answer this from the perspective of you as the prime solely having the capabilities to provide ALL hardware and services without consideration of any teaming arrangements you may tentatively have now or envision having in the future. 5. If you answer yes to question 4 above, specifically detail your ability to provide ALL hardware and/or services identified above. The detail should consist of documented past and current experience. Any list of contracts that accompanies this answer must be augmented with a presentation that gives the Government an understanding of the complexity and scope of the contract listed including all features and functions identified above. 6. If you answered no to question 4 above, what hardware and/or service identified above can you, as the prime, provide without regard to any teaming arrangements you may tentatively have now or envision having in the future? This detail should consist of your documented past and current experience that you can provide as the prime. Additionally, provide any teaming arrangements you may tentatively now have or envision having in the future that would provide the capabilites of all remaining hardware and service capabilities (those you cannot perform as the prime) identified above. 7. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other business arrangements to satisfy these requirements. Offerors are encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size status based upon NAICS code of the work that the team member may be performing. 8. If arrangements identified in question 7 above rely on reseller agreements or partnerships that are limited in nature (e.g. limited to subscriber unit resale only, resale in certain markets or to specific customers, etc.), please provide a description of all limitations of that agreement. Your response should be limited to no more than 10 pages, font size 12, Arial. Any information used will be on a non-attribution basis. Restrictions that would limit the Government's ability to use the information for these purposes are of limited value to the Government and are discouraged. Please email your response to Mr. Conrad Baker, Contracting Officer at a.c.baker2.civ@mail.mil, and Ms. Kelly Herlein, Contract Specialist at kelly.l.herlein.civ@mail.mil by 1200 Noon Central on 20 May 2019.