Telemetry Decommutation System

The Operational Contracting Division, Air Force Test Center, Eglin AFB, FL intends to solicit, negotiate, and award a Firm-Fixed Price contract for Telemetry Decommutation System in accordance with this Brand Name or Equal solicitation. The contractor is responsible for obtaining the solicitation, amendments, and any other documentation from the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website, which can be accessed at http://www.fbo.gov. Paper copies will not be available. This acquisition is under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items and FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and FAR Part 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; a quotation is being requested, and a written request for quotation will not be issued. This is a Full and Open Competition, Brand Name or Equal only, acquisition. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 518210, with small business size standard of $30,000,000.00. Please identify your business size in your response based upon this standard. Prospective offerors must be registered on the System for Award Management (SAM) website at www.sam.gov. Please provide DUNS or Cage Code, Shipping Point, and any charges for shipping on the response to this solicitation. This solicitation is issued as Request for Quotation (RFQ) F1T0DG2353AG01. Offerors will be evaluated on a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable basis IAW FAR 15.101-2 and the award will be made to the lowest priced offeror that meets the minimum requirement. The government will not accept refurbished/used equipment. There will be no advance payments. E-mail address to submit quote and supporting documentation is christopher.serbe@eglin.af.mil. Faxes are not accepted. Mailing address is: - AFTC/PZIOA (OL-EGLIN) - 308 West D Ave Ste 130 (Bldg 260) - Eglin AFB, FL 32542-5418. All questions are due by 1200 (noon), Central Time on 26 April 2013. Quotes must be received no later than 1700, Central Time on 16 May 2013. Anticipated award date is seven (7) days after quote due date. Delivery period for this requirement is 180 days after receipt of order (ARO). This Brand Name or Equal requirement is for the following items to be separately priced: CLIN / QTY / Model No // Description 0001 / 30 / MFT1000 // PCIe Multifunction Telemetry Module includes Full System Support-Special, MFT 800 System Maintenance (Hardware &Software) Options for 14 systems / 8 years 0002 / 30 / PNL-MFT800 // MFT Breakout Panel 0003 / 14 / VISTA-PC-W // Vista Server SW for PC Systems, Win, includes half clock functionality 0004 / 4 / VISTA-ALG // Vista Alogarith Development for PC/VME 0005 / 4 / VISTA-API // Vista API for PC or VME 0006 / 14 / VISTA-TMATS // TMATS/Vista Database converter (SQL) 0007 / 1 / VISTA-OSAD // Training Vista Algorithm Development per course 0008 / 1 / VISTA-OSAPI // Training Vista API, per course 0009 / 1 / VISTA-OSOPS // Training Vista Operations (Basic) per course 0010 / 1 / (N/A) // Training CS Travel, travel & Per Diem for onsite Training The primary Brand Name or Equal Telemetry Decommutation System to be acquired is the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System: - The salient characteristics of the System of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System are: ? Complete system shall consist 60 data streams. Each stream will consist of a bit-synchronizer, decommutator, telemetry processor, telemetery database development interface, and real-time interface ? System shall have no more than a 1 millisecond time-tag fidelity ? System shall be capable of importing legacy (Wyle Omega)TMATs databases ? System shall be capable of communicating with a host server over an Ethernet interface ? System shall be capable of passing all samples of required parameters to Symvionics and Real-Time internally-developed software ? System shall be capable of decoding IRIG A, IRIG B, TTLA, TTLB ? System shall be capable of operating under Microsoft - Windows 7 ? System shall be capable of operating with McAfee 8.x antivirus resident with no decrement to mission support ? System shall be capable of auto generating and passing required IADS configuration files for mission support ? System shall be dynamically scalable and reconfigurable down to single stream level using Ethernet connectivity. Such that, each stream is independent, but can be used in conjunction with any other stream/streams to support a mission. ? System shall provide a single mission interface that will allow loading/saving of a data base that stores the entire mission system state ? System shall allow import/export to Chapter 9 TMATs format ? System shall include an installation package for all software components (i.e., C++, C#, or JAVA) - The salient characteristics of the Decommutator of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System are: ? Decom shall have an internal PCM simulator ? Decom shall be capable of operating at pulse code modulation (PCM) bit rates from 125 Kbps to 30 Mbps NRZL. ? Decom shall be capable of providing serial clock and data inputs compatible with KGR-type decryptors. ? Decom shall be capable of processing 0 and 90 degrees half clock/dual-pumped data, via drop-down menu selection. ? Decom shall be capable of continuously providing IADS-compatible IRIG time without data lock at a minimum 1 msec resolution. ? Decom shall be capable of processing burst data. ? Decom shall be capable of processing PCM to provide continuously variable slope delta (CVSD) modulation analog output ? Decom shall be capable of providing DAC output ? Decom shall be capable of supporting MIL-STD-1553B data encoded in a PCM data format in accordance with Chapter 8 in IRIG Standard 106-11. ? Each decom channel shall process both major and/or minor frame synchronization and the frame synchronization parameters shall be software defined ? Decom software shall be capable of supporting multiple embedded asynchronous bit streams. ? Decom shall be capable of providing low-latency-discrete TTL-level Search, Check and Lock signals via external connector - The salient characteristics of the Bit Synchronizer of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System are: ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of decoding randomized data ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of supporting all IRIG PCM codes described in Chapter 4 of IRIG Standard 160-11 ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of processing PCM bit rates from 125 Kbps to 30 Mbps NRZL ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of providing external output levels that are TTL single-ended with logic 1 being at least 3 volts into 75 ohms termination ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of supporting 75-ohm and high-Z input terminations. ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of providing serial clock and data outputs compatible KGR- type decryptors. ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of providing 0 and 90 degrees half clock/dual-pumped data via drop down menu selection. ? Bit synchronizer shall be capable of providing low-latency-discrete TTL-level Lock/No-Lock signals via external connector - The salient characteristics of the Database Development Interface of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry are: ? Database development interface shall allow updating of parameter/time/bit synchronizer attributes without recompiling the database ? Database development interface shall allow deleting single or multiple parameters ? Database development interface shall be capable of supporting parameters with variable word length and super commutated words ? Database development interface for internally-developed software shall allow the reading and writing of PCM or real time parameters to user defined parameters ? Database development interface shall provide the capability for parameter calculations, if-then-else, and typecasting ? Database development interface shall have the capability to store individual databases at a shared network location to be downloaded when required for mission support. - The salient characteristics of the Telemetry Processor of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System are: ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of handling supercom words that do not have a fixed word/minor frame interval. ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of archiving data ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of supporting concatenation of parameters (i.e., The same bits could be used for multiple parameters) ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of supporting multiple embedded streams from one parent stream, and/or embedded stream within an embedded stream ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of continuously sending IRIG time without data lock at a minimum 1 msec resolution. ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of supporting Major Frame word sizes between 2 and 256K (word count starts at zero) ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of supporting Major Synch Pattern Lengths between 6 and 32 bits ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of time stamping with a resolution of no more than 1 millisecond ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of supporting parameter name filtering ? Telemetry processor shall be capable of dynamically adding streams to existing database configuration - The salient characteristics of the Real-time Interface of the MFT 1000/PCIe Multifunction Telemetry System are: ? Real-time interface shall have an open API that is compatible with organizationally-developed software ? Real-time interface shall allow organizationally-developed software to asynchronously write specified parameter values to the telemetry system, these values will be associated with a user defined parameter name to be processed as any other telemetry parameter. The values are serially injected into the telemetry stream as they are received as if they were decoded from the PCM frame. Optionally, an associated time stamp is written with each parameter value. (Writing parameter values) ? Real-time interface shall be able to select parameter values buffered as they are serially decoded from the PCM frame, and parameter values asynchronously written with this interface are also buffered, if selected. All sample values for each parameter are buffered not just the most current value for each parameter. All values for all parameters including asynchronously written parameters are chronologically stored together in one buffer. Each value is stored with a time stamp of when the value was decoded or injected into the stream. A block read is used to retrieve the buffered values and empty the buffer. The format of the buffered values, the maximum number of values that can be buffered, and any timing constraints on block reads should be clearly documented. (Reading parameter values) ? Real-time interface shall be capable of retrieving tag parameters and providing indication if tagged parameters does not exist ? Real-time interface shall be capable of tagging parameters in time and data format. Data will be driven in the order in which it arrives ? Real-time interface shall be capable of specifing list of parameter, buffer the parameter, and allow user to pull specified data ? Software to interface with real time shall reside in the system (i.e., TCP/IP toolkit) ? Real-time interface shall be capable of supporting multiple thread/sessions ? Real-time interface shall be capable of deselecting parameters that were previously selected for reading ? Real-time interface shall provide an interface to write examples ? Real-time interface shall be capable of ingesting data samples via Ethernet interface updated for enabled selected parameters. It will then return the buffer containing all updated parameters. ? Real-time interface shall be capable of passing data values that are at least 32 bits, either binary or decimal format. 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