Y--Sources Sought To Provide Brand Name Components (Monaco System Transceivers) or Industry Equivalents, Fort Drum, NY

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE for Market Research ONLY to determine the availability of the Brand Name Component, Monaco System Transceivers, or Industry EQUIVALANTS, as described below, for multiple upcoming construction projects at Fort Drum, NY for 2008 through 2009. No awards will be made from this Sources Sought Notice. No solicitation will be available at this time. However, responses to this Sources Sought Notice will be used to determine an appropriate acquisition strategy for future acquisitions. The New York District intends to solicit and award multiple construction projects for Fort Drum, NY for 2008 through 2009. The multiple construction projects will be solicited competitively under future separate solicitations. These projects will include a Brand Name Only component, as described below, unless the results of this sources sought notification indicates otherwise. This notification serves three purposes: (1) to notify potential offerors of the Government's intent to solicit a brand name only component under a future construction project for 2008 through 2009 and (2) to identify potential sources that can provide the brand name only item and (3) notification of the Army's intent to contract sole source for a Brand Name Only, system Monaco, as described below. The Monaco System Transceiver is embedded in the multiple construction projects, which projects will be issued competitively. Only that part of the projects requiring the Monaco System Transceiver is sole source if no sources are able to provide an equivalent system. In the event no equivalent equipment exists, the Brand Name Only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR Part 6.302-1, - Only One Responsible Source. A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval (J&A) for sole sourcing the resultant product(s) or system(s) in the event an equivalent product is not submitted for consideration. In such instances, the brand name or equal component will be embedded in the construction project that will be issued competitively. Only that part of the project requiring brand name components will be sole source if no sources are able to prove an equal product. Supplies will be providing the brand name component to the contractor under the future solicitation for the construction of the project, not directly to the Government. SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENT: The multiple construction projects will include Brand Name only equipment for building fire alarm radio transceivers manufactured by Monaco Enterprises. These projects with their many state-of-the-art building components require reliable receiving and reporting building fire alarm systems. It has been determined that a microprocessor based radio controlled fire reporting system is the best compatible alternative to be used with the existing system. Fort Drum currently uses the Monaco D-21 Enhanced Central Radio Alarm System. No other product has been found that can be considered interchangeable with or equal to the Monaco D-21 Enhance Central Radio Alarm System. The only remote transceiver that will communicate with this make of base transceiver is the Monaco model BT-X series. The required features of the BT-XM Fire Alarm Building Transceiver are as follows: (1) Hardwire line or narrowband radio communication with any of the D-21 Fire Management System; (2) Narrowband radio is FCC certified for narrowband operation and meets the requirements of the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Frequency Management; (3) Radio communication with the D-21; (4) Provides audio and fire alarm overrides for mass notification per UFC and NFPA; (5) Provides automatic and manual control of local or remote devices such as turning on pumps based on timed events, input from a fire alarm control panel, or manually activated from the D-21; (6) Provides eight relay driver outputs and four supervised zone inputs; (7) Eight onboard open-collector relay driver outputs can connect to the BT-XM relay board or to relay coils that remotely control equipment such as pump activation inputs, HVAC dampers, lighting, door openers, runway barriers, and gates. These outputs can also drive remote enunciator LEDs; (8) Four supervised fire zone inputs for connection to fire detection and monitoring devices located within 15 feet of the BT-XM; these are supervised for open (trouble), short (alarm), single-ground fault, and double-ground fault conditions; (9) Four zone LEDs (one for each zone) reflect the condition of the zones: trouble, alarm, or normal; (10) Status LEDs reflect the status of the BT-XM: general alarm, general trouble, system fault, in-communication, carrier detect, transmit, primary power, battery boost charge, and battery float charge; (11) Supports up to 31 zone expansion backplanes into which fire and audio expansion cards can be plugged; (12) Each zone expansion card provides four zone inputs and eight relay outputs for connection to local or remotely located devices; (13) Each expansion card has five LEDs: the PWR LED indicates power is being supplied to the card; the remaining four LEDs indicate the status of the four zone inputs; (14) Each BT-XM can support up to 252 zones and 504 relay outputs with 62 expansion cards installed; (15) One selectable RS-422/RS-485 port for communication with peripheral equipment or connection to a local access controller. An alternative use of this port is hardwire connection to multiple BT-XM units connected together for communication with the D-21; (16) Two full-duplex RS-232 ports used to program the BT-XM via connection to a laptop computer or for connection to peripheral equipment that does not have a RS-422 port/RS-485 port; (17) 115 or 230 Vac power monitored with automatic switchover to backup battery power that provides standby power; the number of hours depends on the battery Self test, stuck transmitter disconnect, reset, acknowledge, and battery reconnect switches; (18) Local audible alert; (19) Real-time clock and calendar; (20) 1/2 Mb of program memory; (21) 1/2 Mb of non-volatile data storage; (22) Fits in a variety of enclosures; the enclosure size depends upon how many expansion cards are needed; (23) Factory Mutual approved Any vendor wishing to provide a system that is compatible with the existing Monaco system must provide a copy of its brochure and any other data by 14 calendar days from date of issue, NO LATER THAN 26 JUNE 2008, 4:00 PM EST, to Contract Specialist, Elizabeth A. Stanley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Contracting Division, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1843, N.Y., New York 10278. This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. This project will be solicited at a future date. Points of contacts: Elizabeth A. Stanley, Contract Specialist, Email: Elizabeth.a.stanley@usace.army.mil; Telephone: 917-790-8171; FAX. 212-264-3013 David Chestnut, Technical Manager, Telephone: 315-772-1567.