Q and A Land Mobile Radio Service Maintenance.pdf

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This document contains a question and answer file and a related federal contract opportunity solicitation. The Q&A file provides technical details on the TETRA land mobile radio system to be covered under a maintenance contract for the Lebanese Internal Security Force, including that the system consists of two redundant Central Switching Nodes, twenty-one eXTRAS FR400 base stations across twenty-one locations covering 750 square miles, seven radio dispatch centers with twelve dispatchers, and a twenty-six link DragonWave microwave backbone network across multiple frequency bands. The related solicitation seeks maintenance services for the LMR TETRA network and its components, including management software, servers, switching nodes, microwave network, base stations, and control rooms. The soliciting agency is the Department of State Office of Acquisition Management.

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Land Mobile Radio Service Maintenance Embassy of the United States of America

Beirut, Lebanon Combined Synopsis and Solicitation19GE5020Q0020

Questions and Answers

Q1: Currently there are two different TETRA Vendor systems used by LISF. Can you please tell us which Tetra System Vendor LISF is looking for this maintenance contract?

A1: The TETRA Network to be covered consists of 3T communications Central Switching Node services

(CSN), eXTRAS FR400 base stations, dispatcher consoles, control rooms and a backbone microwave network.

Q2: Can you please provide detailed technical information on the system to be covered? We need information such as number of sites, location of sites, inventory of equipment by location, equipment model numbers, etc. This information will allow us to prepare an accurate and complete proposal.

A2: The system is installed in Beirut and Mount Lebanon district and the service maintenance agreement should cover the following:

Two redundant Central Switching Nodes (CSN) each consisting of FTS 100 TETRA switch, FTNS

Network Management Server, FTG 64 Gateway, Key Management Server, FTR Recording server, and Dispatcher server.

Twenty one Base Stations (BS) 3T communications eXTRAS FR400 located at twenty one locations covering about 750 square miles, in addition to the city of Beirut. Thirteen BS with two

Base Radios (BR), five BS with three BR and three BS with four BR. The exact locations can't be given due to military restrictions.

Seven Radio Dispatching Centers (Control Rooms) with twelve dispatchers.

Backbone "DragonWave" microwave network consisting of twenty six microwave links as follows:

Three "38 GHz" band microwave links, two links configured as ring topology and one configured as (2+0).

Fifteen "13 Ghz" band microwave links, nine links configured as ring topology, five links configured as (1+1) and one link configured as (2+0).

Eight "18 Ghz" band microwave links, five links configured as ring topology, two links configured as (1+1) and one link configured as (2+0).

Surge arrestors, earthing system, lightning system, holo ground, cables (power, coaxial and data), connectors, feeders, antennas, and all accessories at each of twenty-one sites and at the main site where the CSN is installed.

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