A04_Statement_of_Need.pdf

Statement of Need for Upfitting Vehicle for Use as Emergency Response/Law Enforcement Operations and Patrol within Lake Mead NRA Background Lake Mead NRA consists of approximately 1.5 million acres of both land and water. Most of these areas are visited by the general public, who occasionally need emergency assistance in one form or another.

Lake Mead NRA employs U.S. Park Rangers who maintain the authority and responsibility to enforce Federal law and to respond in an emergency to provide a variety of services including law enforcement, structural and wildland fire, emergency medical services, and search and rescue. As such, these employees utilize marked law enforcement and emergency services vehicles that are outfitted with a variety of emergency lights and sirens.

The vehicles are typically provided by contract through the General Services Administration (GSA) as fleet vehicles. These vehicles come with basic function packages only and need to have emergency lighting, sirens, various equipment and prisoner transport cages, and standard agency markings installed in them.

This project is to outfit a total of thirteen (13) Pursuit Package 2021 Dodge Durangos. These vehicles are currently outfitted only with what the manufacturer (Dodge) installs on the vehicle, which includes, but is not limited to 2 spotlights mounted into the A post of the door frame (1 on either side of the vehicle), and a prewired harness for some of the emergency equipment.

All of these vehicles have arrived at the Park. The contractor shall hold their price for 6 months from contract award.

The project is also to strip out thirteen (13) of the old patrol vehicles being replaced for turn in to GSA.

Equipment installation needs to be accomplished at a shop facility within 50 miles of the Lake Mead NRA HQ in Boulder City, NV. Vendor will be required to have a minimum of 10 years’ experience outfitting Law Enforcement and Emergency Services vehicles and will be required to provide references to be contacted by the NPS for verification.

Bid proposals will be evaluated for best value to the government. The following factors will be used to evaluate the proposals: Price, Product Features, contractor’s knowledge and experience, warranty, and past performance.

The contractor will order parts necessary for each vehicle upon notification of the contract being awarded. The contractor will discuss with the COR and workout a schedule for all vehicles associated with this contract. The COR and the contractor will also work out the schedule for the strip out of the patrol vehicles to be turned into GSA.

Requirements All installations and removals will be done by an established vendor within 50 miles (straight line) of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area Headquarters.

Remove all emergency and LE equipment from the old vehicles and replace any OEM equipment

(i.e. door panels, etc) that was removed during the original installation process o NPS will furnish all the previously removed OEM equipment to the contractor for reinstallation.

Outfit new vehicles with the following equipment o Sound Off Signal LED Magnum or similar Full size lightbar with Red/Blue emergency lights, 6 LED Take Down white lights, Right and Left Alley lights (white) with appropriate roof mounting kit.

o A rear mounted SUB lightbar/arrow stick, with red, blue, and amber LED lighting with directional capabilities.

o Front and Rear wig wags o Front LED lights (red and blue) mounted in the grill o Side lights (Red and Blue) mounted in the rear side window (cargo area) o Side mirror lights (under side view mirror mounted lights)(red and Blue) o Lighting (red and blue) recessed into the tailgate to be activated when the tailgate is open with emergency lighting activated.

o 100w Siren speaker with mounting bracket mounted somewhere in the front of the vehicle (Preferably inside the front grill) o Siren Lights Control Panel (Sound Off Signal nERGY 400 or similar) with the vehicles horn ring connected to the emergency siren for hand free tone selection o Center Console Troy Products 2021 Dodge Durango 18” Console or similar (8” slope, 10” flat) with beverage holder and faceplate for OEM USB Ports and 2 DC Outlets and appropriate face plates for installed accessories.

o Motorola APX 8500 mobile radio with the O5 remote control head and associated antennas and cabling (Government Furnished Equipment) o 12” map light o Magnetic mic kit o A power management system that manages the power to all of the added accessories and interfaces with the OEM power management system for the vehicle without interfering with vehicle functions o Straight Frame Spacemaker sliding square-hole punched window prisoner partition with passenger side recessed toward dashboard to create space in back seat.

This will need to create a reasonable amount of leg room in the prisoner area for larger prisoners and allow for officers to be able to seat prisoners in and get prisoners out of the prisoner area without compromising officer safety.

o Kick Panel kit for the prisoner partition o Bars on the rear passenger doors to prevent prisoners kicking the windows out o Dual Long Gun mount with tamper resistant gun lock brackets o 2 gun locks for long guns

Reuse the locks from the stripped out vehicles where possible Handcuff style preferable where reuse of old equipment is not possible o Rear cargo partition mounted behind the rear passenger seat o Kustom Signal Eagle 3 unit with dual Ka-band antenna with same direction, fastest and scan mode.

Antennas to be mounted forward facing and rear facing in accessible areas that do not impede vision of the driver of the vehicle.

Unit to be mounted on the dash within easy eyeline of the vehicle operator, but does not impede vision of the operator.

o Seatbelt locking mechanisms installed on both rear seatbelt latches (Seatbeltlock.com style device or similar).

o NPS LE Patrol Vehicle marking package (Government Furnished Equipment).

The emergency lighting will have the following intended functions on the control panel o Position 1

Rear of light bar Amber Directional arrow bar Rear wig wag lights o Position 2 All of Position 1 Front of light bar Side lights under mirrors Side lights in rear compartment Front grill lighting o Position 3 All of position 1 and 2 Front wig wags o Pattern selection capability from the control panel for the directional arrow traffic control bar.

Red and blue pattern when no directional arrow selected

Emergency lighting will have 360 degree of high visibility during all lighting conditions (day and night).