J -- Retrofit of Communication Tower Trailers

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mt. Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Mt. Weather (Bluemont), VA intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, with Teltronic Inc., Beltsville, MD for the purchase of equipment and services to retrofit four communications tower trailers for the Mobile Emergency Response System (MERS) and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) equipment and satellite communications equipment. The retrofitted travel trailers will be used to provide voice communications in the field for the support of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) and The Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) program. FEMA requires retrofit of the Motorola equipment currently located in four trailers to be compatible with the equipment that is already in the NDMS and US&R programs. FEMA requires that all of the tower trailers be identical in their equipment and configuration so that any unit can operate independently or in conjunction with the other units in the system. Currently there exists limited equipment in each unit and depending on the mission needs each has to be reconfigured or equipment swapped between units to meet the mission profile. FEMA also requires that the existing units all be brought to the same firmware level in order to eliminate the need of having to carry multiple laptops to program the equipment in the different trailers. It is necessary that the Contractor have certified technicians to work on FEMA's existing Motorola Government owned equipment and be licensed by Motorola to provide the software upgrade to the existing Motorola equipment.The Contractor shall overhaul existing Government furnished repeaters which will be aligned, repaired and tested to ensure the equipment meets current factory specifications. Units must be capable of functioning in the digital and analog modes. Antennas, duplexers, power supplies and RF PA's are to be replaced as needed. The Contractor shall also provide the following equipment: Telwave wattmeters and carrying cases, IS PolyPhasers, Cellwave antennas and duplexers, Bud equipment racks and black shelves, Motorola power amps and power supply's. Interested parties may respond by identifying their capability to provide the required retrofit services and to provide the necessary equipment, to include descriptive literature and capability statement. Interested parties must also provide proof that they employ certified technicians and are licensed by Motorola to provide the required software upgrades. Responses shall be sent via email to Sandra.nixon@dhs.gov and must be received no later than 3:00 PM/EST on July 17, 2006. This is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all responses received by the date identified above will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. This is not a small business set-aside requirement. NAICS Code is 811213, Small Business Size is $6.5 Million. However, this notice serves as a means to locate any potentially qualified small businesses who could perform the required retrofit services and provide the necessary equipment.