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36 Contracting Squadron Andersen Air Force Base, Guam Unit 14040, Bldg 22026

APO AP 96543-4040

A Firm Fixed Price, 100% Small Business set-aside purchase order for Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products with an authorized reseller is anticipated.

Market Research identified multiple small business vendors that expressed capability and interest in this requirement to provide Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products, therefore a competitive solicitation is expected.

The 36 Wing Operations Support Squadron (36 WG/OSS) has a requirement to procure Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc test equipment to test and maintain the navigation aid equipment at Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB). The required products will replace existing Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc test equipment which is no longer operable.

The required equipment includes the following:

1. One each U2061XA 10 MHz to 6 GHz USB Wide Dynamic Range Average and Peak Power Sensor -100 Type-N (male) connector -301 Power sensor cable; 5-ft

2. One each 85519A Calibration kit, 4-in-1, open, short, load and through, DC to 18 GHz, Type-N(f), 50 ohm

3. One each N9913B FieldFox Handheld RF Analyzer + add-ons required:

N9913B-210 Vector network analyzer transmission/reflection N9913B-211 Vector network analyzer full 2-port S-parameters N9913B-215 TDR cable measurements N9913B-302 USB power sensor support N9913B-308 Vector voltmeter N9913B-330 Pulse measurements AC / DC adapter for US

Additional requirements needed to fulfill testing and maintenance capabilities include:

1) Must be an all-in-one handheld device that has capability to interface with Air Traffic Control Tower radios and lines, the Instrument Landing Systems for the Andersen Air Field, the Tactical Air Navigation System, the Electronic Voice Switch, and allows for broadband antenna testing.

2) Provides capability to triangulate a rogue signal.

3) Has a USB power meter that enables the measurement of output power from -120DB to 20DB.

4) Must be a spectrum analyzer that has a range of at least 30kHz - 4GHz with dynamic range, close in phase noise, and fast sweep times. Trace and state controls required. Signal capture ability for pulses as short as 15 microseconds. Detection of low-level signals in high-power transmitters.

5) Must have a vector network analyzer with all four S-parameters, magnitude, and phase. To include mixed-mode reflections.

6) Vector voltmeter needs to cable trim, phase shift, and do electrical length measurements. A/B and B/A ratio measurements.

7) Two ports to check insertion loss, cable loss, and VSWR

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FAR 13.106-1(b) Soliciting from a single source. (1) For purchases not exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. (i) Contracting officers may solicit from one source if the contracting officer determines that the circumstances of the contract action deem only one source reasonably available (e.g., urgency, exclusive licensing agreements, brand-name or industrial mobilization).

Keysight Technologies Inc is the only manufacturer of the FieldFox Handheld Radio Frequency Analyzer (Network Analyzer) which is the recommended test equipment per Air Force Technical Order 31R4-2TRN50-2.

The FieldFox is a combination analyzer, cable and antenna test, Vector network analyzer, and finally a spectrum analyzer. The add-on features, the power sensor, and the calibration kit, work with the FieldFox Radio Frequenzy Analyzer to enable the end user to perform required functions including obtaining proper readings and troubleshooting and conducting maintenance of the Air Traffic Control Tower radios and lines, the Instrument Landing Systems for the Andersen Air Field, the Tactical Air Navigation System, the Electronic Voice Switch that interfaces all of these components, and broadband antenna testing. No other analyzer can provide all of these capabilities and can guarantee compatibility with existing equipment.

Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc test equipment also has the proven capability to interface with the standard set of communications test equipment maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local Radar and Weather Systems (RAWS) work centers.

Maintaining a common brand of test equipment will ensure compatibility and the ability of test equipment to interface with existing navigation aid equipment at Andersen Air Force Base and amongst inter-agency equipment when needed. Integration of any other brand of test equipment is likely to cause mission degradation due to non-compatibility and/or duplication of costs to retrofit new and existing equipment to enable interoperability.

The 36 WG/OSS Subject Matter Expert reviewed specifications for alternate Radio Frequency and Spectrum Analyzers available in the commercial market and determined that no other brands offered the minimum required capabilities provided by the FieldFox Handheld Radio Frequency Analyzer. Based on this and the critical requirement for new equipment to interface with existing equipment, a Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc acquisition is warranted.

Market Research identified multiple small business vendors that expressed capability and interest in this requirement to provide Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products, therefore a competitive solicitation is expected.

To ensure that offers are solicited from as many potential sources as practicable, the Government will post a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation on the Government Point of Entry (SAM) for a reasonable amount of time.

Based on market research, recent awards for Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products received two or more offers, therefore the Contracting Officer anticipates costs to be fair and reasonable based on adequate

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Market Research was conducted to first determine whether any other brand of Radio Frequency and Spectrum Analyzers could meet the 36 WG/OSS end-user's requirements. The 36 WG/OSS Subject Matter Expert (SME) reviewed the technical specifications of multiple analyzers available on the commercial market and determined that no other brand identified offered the minimum required capabilities provided by the FieldFox Handheld Radio Frequency Analyzer combined with the required accessories.

Additional Market Research was conducted to identify whether there were multiple small business vendors capable of providing the required Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc items. A Sources Sought was posted to GSA Advantage and on SAM.gov, an emailed Request For Information was sent to potential vendors identified using FPDS-NG and DSBS, and another Sources Sought was posted to SAM.gov inviting potential vendors to propose equivalent products.

One Large Business and three Small Business vendors responded indicating their capability and interest in the requirement to provide Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products.

One Large Business and one Small Business vendor also responded and proposed to fulfill the requirement with equivalent products that the 36 WG/OSS SME determined did not offer adequate capabilities or guarantee compatibility with existing equipment.

Based on this evidence, it is in the government's best interest is to pursue a 100% small business set-aside by soliciting for the required Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products on the Government Point of Entry (SAM) in order to solicit from as many potential sources as practicable.

The Government will continue to monitor the market for alternatives to Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products. Acquisitions for the purchase of future Brand Name Keysight Technologies Inc products will be scrutinized as this one was to ensure the accuracy and recency of the above information.

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