Joint Base Charleston Giant Voice System

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS MARKET RESEARCH ONLY. RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION DECISIONS. A SUBSEQUENT SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT MAY FOLLOW. RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO ANY FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENT. Joint Base Charleston (JB CHS), located in Charleston, SC seeks a contractor to Engineer, Design, Furnish, Install, and Test (EDFI&T) a new turn-key giant voice (GV) system solution to replace the entire existing GV system and provide complete services with real-time intelligible voice messages, tone alerts, and music for the coverage of all areas at Joint Base Charleston (JB CHS), SC, combining JB CHS Air Base (JB CHS-AB) with JB CHS Naval Weapons Station (JB CHS-WS). The replacement GV system shall be capable of communicating over digital two-way conventional UHF radio communications links via the existing Government Furnish Equipment (GFE) Motorola ASTRO GTR8000 repeater and being integrated with the Blackberry AtHoc Net-centric Network Alerting System (NCAS) via the existing GFE IP Integration Module (IIM) to allow interoperability and remote activation. The replacement shall consist of 4 central control stations (CCSs), 25 remote siren stations (RSSs), and all associated radio base stations (RBSs) including GV poles, AC power extensions/feeders, battery backups, solar panels, lightning protections, grounding, cabling, wiring, software, configuration/programming, and other necessary components to provide complete system. The entire existing GV system equipment shall be decommissioned and disposed of at an off installation location. Warranty and training support shall also be required for the replacement GV system. The Government shall also provide 25 Motorola J/F-12 certified single-band APX6500 radios for the GV system. The existing GV system at JB Charleston was built in 2015, consisting of four (4) CCSs (three (3) in Charleston AFB and one (1) in Charleston NWS) and 25 RSSs (nine (9) in Charleston AFB and 16 in Charleston NWS) and using wooden poles for all the RSSs and Motorola XTL5000 radios for radio communications via the existing GFE Motorola ASTRO GTR8000 repeater located behind the building B129. Locations of three (3) CSSs in Charleston AFB are at the B169 (Primary Command Post or CP), B709 (Alternate CP), and B129 (Radio Shop). Location of the CCS in Charleston NWS is at the B1978 (BDOC). The government is seeking responses from all qualified sources. Those wishing to identify their capability to provide the aforementioned product/services to any or all of the required locations should respond to this announcement via email to tatyana.verenich@us.af.mil no later than Tuesday, 6 December 2022 at 1300 PM Eastern Standard Time. Interested parties should provide the following: Company Name, Company Address, Point of Contact, phone number, email address, CAGE number, and capability statement for the services provided as stated above. Additionally provide answers to the following questions: (1) Is your business small or large, (2) If small, does your firm qualify as a small disadvantaged business?, (3) If disadvantaged, specify under which disadvantaged group and if your firm is certified under Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, (4) Is your firm a certified HUBZone firm, (5) Is your firm woman-owned or operated business, (6) Is your firm a certified Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business or Veteran-Owned Small Business? THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR "SOURCES SOUGHT" SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. INFORMATION IS TO BE PROVIDED ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS. NO ENTITLEMENT TO PAYMENT OF DIRECT OR INDIRECT COSTS OR CHARGES INCLUDING POSTAGE AND SHIPPING WILL ARISE AS A RESULT OF THE SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION.