R -- DIGITAL VIDEO LABORATORY II

The Air Airmament Center, Directorate of Contracting, Eglin AFB, Florida intends to solicit from, negotiate with, and award a new sole source, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Sarnoff Corporation, 201 Washington Road, West Windsor Township, New Jersey 08540-6449 for the following requirement in accordance with 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1), pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. Sources sought synopsis number FA9200-06-R-0262, issued on 26 April 2006 closing on 11 May 2006, resulted in five responses received which were determined unable to meet the Government's requirements. A cost plus fixed fix (CPFF) contract with optional Firm Fixed Price (FFP) and Cost Reimbursement (CR) CLINs for an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) sole source contract is contemplated to include a contract period of five years from the date of contract award. The Air Armament Center, AAC/PKZ, located at Eglin AFB, FL intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) on or about 20 December 2006, with proposals due 30 days after issuance. The joint aircraft/stores certification community has a need to implement digital video technology for end-to-end test processes, as well as apply video software tools to Satellite, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Range Test and Evaluation (T&E) imagery. The capabilities are being provided using a Spiral Development approach, which defines requirements based on feedback from previous deliveries. Prospective offerors may submit Statement of Capabilities (SOC) that will provide substantiated evidence that they possess the detailed knowledge and capabilities to perform the required effort. All responses to this synopsis will be evaluated in the following areas: 1) Ability to provide enhancements to the Digital Video Laboratory (DVL) delivered Digital Multimedia Management System (DMMS) and Video Analysis tools. Enhancements include as a minimum: a) sharing of data between customer databases and the DMMS, b) advance search techniques, and c) integration to quantitative analysis tools. 2) Organic knowledge of the full spectrum of technologies associated with development and applications of digital video systems, including sensors, compression, transmission, processing, exploitation, storage, retrieval, and presentation. This includes, but is not limited to: a) digital video imaging sensors and systems; b) digital video compression in multiple formats, frame rates, and with techniques that utilize full resolution of all components at dynamic ranges equal to, or exceeding, that of MPEG-2; c) perceptual quality measurement techniques for video quality metering; d) digital video stabilization algorithms that can be implemented in both real-time and non real-time scenarios; e) digital video archive and retrieval systems; f) digital studio procedures that allow users to access data in a variety of formats from a variety of sources; g) video compositing and mosaicing methods that provide extended resolution and expanded context beyond a traditional field of view; h) moving target indication algorithms to locate and track the paths of several objects within a field of view; i) compressed domain-processing techniques, which allow for some analysis of video without the need to decompress; j) visualization techniques that provide novel and innovative ways to display a range of data within video; k) real-time Video Database Ingestion; l) real-time three dimensional display of geo-registered video on three dimensional geo-registered reference imagery of up to eight video sources, to include video source geo-referenced position; m) near real-time display of geo-referenced mosaics from real-time video sources; and n) existing interface to target, image and scene mensuration tools. 3) Firm connections and understanding of the commercial digital video market including commercial research and development laboratories; and 4) Demonstrated knowledge and experience with process oriented integration of digital video into military and other government agency applications. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 541710 with a standard size of 500 employees. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to this sole source contract action, however this notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The criteria listed above will be used to evaluate responses to this notice in order to determine whether or not this will be a full and open competition. Capabilities packages shall include, as a minimum: 1) evidence of past experience and related projects that covers the aforementioned evaluation criteria with value/price of past efforts; 2) size of firm, large or small business; 3) whether or not these items and services are provided commercially to non-government agencies; and 4.) the capability to support in form, fit, and function the aircraft as identified above. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. The Government does not intend to pay for any information provided under this notice. If responses are not received by 3:00 p.m. Central Standard Time, 19 December 2006, a Sole Source contract will be pursued with Sarnoff Corporation.