140R8122Q0148_Sources_Sought_Synopsis_1.pdf

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR

QUOTE. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) in Denver, Colorado and the Acquisition

Operations Branch (AOB) are performing market research to determine if there is a sufficient number of qualified Small Businesses, (i.e., small, small disadvantaged, woman-owned, Hub

Zone, serviced-disabled veteran-owned small business) to set aside a Firm Fixed Price Contract.

Reclamation will use responses to this notice to make the appropriate acquisition decision. The contemplated solicitation will be issued in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition

Procedures.

Reclamation intends to award a Firm Fixed Price Contract for a multi-beam sonar depth sounder and associated equipment under a brand name or equal procurement with a Norbit iWMBSh device in accordance with FAR 11.104.

The awardee shall provide the following items:

1. An operationally functional multibeam echosounder system.

2. Portable, lightweight integrated multi-beam sonar with embedded inertial navigation system.

3. Mounting bracket and fairings for installation on a variety of possible survey boats.

4. An integrated surface sound velocity probe.

5. Ruggedized data acquisition system with the software and hardware features listed below.

This requirement must meet the firm, specified salient characteristics of a Norbit iWMBSh multi-beam sonar depth sounder system and associated equipment as listed below. Items equal to the Norbit iWMBSh multi-beam sonar depth sounder are also acceptable for award if conforming to the required characteristics.

1. Broadband multi-beam echosounder containing the following specifications and capabilities:

a. Capability to use continuous wave (CW) or frequency modulation (FM) without modification to the sonar head unit.

b. CW soundings at 400 kilohertz (kHz) will have the following specifications:

A 0.9° (degrees) across track beam width with a typical depth range of 0.2 meters (m) to 160 meters, maximum depth of 275 meters, and a swath coverage of 5° to 210° equidistance utilizing a user defined selectable number of beams from 10 to 512 total from a single transducer.

c. CW soundings at 700 kHz will have the following specifications:

A 0.5° across track beam width with a typical depth range of 0.2 meters to 20 meters, maximum depth of 550 meters, and a swath coverage of 5° to 90° equi‐angle utilizing a user defined selectable number of beams from 10 to

512 total from a single transducer.

d. Sonar range resolution shall be less than 10 millimeters (mm) at 80 kHz.

e. The sonar transmitting unit will have the capability of a user defined frequency selection ping of 10 kHz increments between the bands of 200kHz and 700kHz.

f. Sonar receiver must be able to detect multiple returns from a single ping sent from the transmitting unit allowing for location of items within the water column as per a single strongest return being received and collected.

g. Automated and dynamic capability of the sonar to adjust settings on the fly based on site conditions, water column conditions, etc. to ensure optimal data collection.

h. Capability to form high density swath sectors within a full swath to increase ping density for additional data density collection in areas of interest.

i. The sonar head unit, transmitter, and receiver will be less than 23 pounds in the air and 17 pounds while submerged and a depth rating of no less than 50 meters.

j. Sonar system shall be portable and fit into a single airline checked luggage size case.

k. The sonar head unit will have an internally mounted Inertial Motion

Reference Unit (IMU) on the sonar head.

l. The echosounder shall include a sonar head fairing with required bracketry to mount to the sonar unit.

m. The echosounder shall include all connections and cables required for system operation. The standard cables required are 8 m and the GPS antenna cables required are 10 m.

2. Sonar processing unit will have the following specifications:

a. Obtain an Ingress Protection rating 54 (IP54) water resistant rating and allow for multiple mounting solutions.

b. Capability to be moved easily from one vessel to another dependent on project requirements for a variety of possible survey boats.

c. Shall connect to a laptop or personal computer (PC) through a local area network (LAN) cable.

d. Minimize total number of connections to and from the processing unit.

e. Allow for single point sensor time tagging capabilities.

3. Georeferencing and motion compensation requirements:

a. Unit will have up to 0.01° pitch and roll measurement accuracy.

b. Horizontal accuracy of +/‐ 8 mm plus 1 part per million times Global

Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) baseline length.

c. Vertical accuracy of +/‐ 15 mm plus 1 part per million times baseline GNSS length.

d. Must be compatible with currently existing GNSS used by real-time kinematic (RTK) survey equipment. Current equipment consists of Trimble

R8 and R10 receivers and Trimble Survey Controller (TSC)5 data collectors.

4. Software requirements:

a. Any additional software required for maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, or adjustments required for all equipment provided.

5. Data acquisition system requirements:

a. Intel Core i74610m vPro Processor 3.0 gigahertz (GHz)

b. 15.6” (inch) full high definition (HD) 1080p (pixels) sunlight readable liquid crystal display (LCD)

c. 64 gigabyte (GB) random access memory (RAM)

d. 1 terabyte (TB) solid state drive (SSD) hybrid hard drive (HDD) with a 2 TB

SSD Data Drive

e. Dedicated video card

f. Wi-Fi and BT Wi-Fi capable

g. Includes a Windows 10 operating system (OS)

h. IP65 water resistant rating

i. 5-year warranty

All items furnished by the contractor shall not be used or refurbished.

All interested contractors who can supply equipment meeting the description above shall respond with information describing their interest, capabilities statements, and indicate which small business category for which they qualify. Email responses are required. The due date for responses to this Sources Sought is at 12:00 PM Mountain Time on April 29, 2022. Please email your responses to mdwolfe@usbr.gov. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE. The

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 334519, which contains a size standard of 500 employees, is applicable to this acquisition. Interested firms are reminded that in accordance with FAR 4.12, prospective contractors shall complete electronic annual representations and certifications and in conjunction with FAR 4.11, are required to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at the time an offer or quotation is submitted.