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Question: 1. FBO has two documents with very similar information (DINFOS_CeremonyLarge_Pitch_Classroom_AV_System_SOW.pdf and HQ051666412-15SPD- 772_DINFOS_Classroom_AV_System_(Service_Description)v2.doc).

Page 3 on DINFOS_CeremonyLarge_Pitch_Classroom_AV_System_SOW.pdf indicates the A/V control system is to be Crestron and page 3 on HQ051666412-15SPD- 772_DINFOS_Classroom_AV_System_(Service_Description)v2.doc only states an A/V Control System.

a. Does the government prefer a Crestron A/V Control Systems?

b. What A/V Control System is currently used at DINFOS? (Crestron, AMX, Extron, etc.) If both, how many of each?

c. Does DINFOS currently have a room management system such as Crestron Fusion?

d. If not, does DINFOS plan to implement a room management system such as Crestron Fusion?

Answer: 1a. Government prefers Crestron.

1b. DINFOS currently has two Crestron Systems in two isolated rooms.

1c. DINFOS does not have a room management system we have room scheduling software.

1d. No we do not plan on implementing a room management system at this time.

Question: 2. “Two (2) UHF frequency agile wireless handheld & lavaliere microphone systems (inter-changeable), to be kept in the lectern.”

a. Is the requirement for one (1) wireless handheld & one (1) wireless lavaliere microphone transmitter and two receivers per room?

b. Or, two (2) wireless handheld and two (2) wireless lavaliere microphone transmitters that share two (2) receivers and only two (2) of the four (4) transmitter can be used at the same time?

Answer: 2a & b. Each of the four rooms (115A-D) needs to have 1 wireless Handheld mic and 1 wireless Lav transmitting on the same frequency to 1 receiver. We want two of this set up in each room.

Question: 3. Is CaC card support required at the lectern? Or, only at the GFE PC in the control room?

Answer: 3. Only at the GFE PC in the control room.

Question: 4. “One (1) Live production A/V switcher with audio mixing capability (all inclusive).”

a. Is one switcher required per divisible room (4 total)? Or, one switcher shared by the four divisible rooms?

b. If 4 switchers, should all eight cameras appear on all four switchers?

c. Does DINFOS have a specific model in mind?

d. When in combined mode, is it required that all cameras be available for use and switched on a single switcher?

e. Can the audio be handled separately from the switcher? (e.g. on the touch panel)

f. Is clean camera switching required? E.G. Not using the Crestron, AMX, or Extron switcher to switch between cameras as it will cause a jump when switching between sources as the cameras are not timed and the switcher is not a clean switcher.

Answer: 4a. One switcher share by for all four rooms.

4b. N/A.

4c. DINFOS does not have a specific model in mind.

4d. Yes.

4e. Yes.

4f. Yes.

Question: 5. Is the requirement to control the cameras (Pan Tilt and Zoom) using the AV control system’s touch panel? Or, is a separate camera controller with joystick required?

Answer: 5. Separate camera controller (Joystick) is required.

Question: 6. Control room shall have the capability to visually and audibly monitor the ongoing event in any of the four rooms simultaneously.

a. Is the intent for one operation that can simultaneously control and monitor each room?

b. Or, one operations desk per room that can control and monitor that specific room?

Answer: 6a & b. The control room windows only view 115 B & C. We want one operation that can simultaneously control and monitor all rooms.

Question: 7. “The system shall supply one (1) HD/SDI video output to feed the in-house cable head-end system.”

a. If there are four switchers, which one should feed the in-house cable system?

b. Or, do we need to provide a HD-SDI switch to control which one of the four switchers is routed to the cable head-end

Answer: 7. N/A since our requirement is for one switcher for all four rooms.

Question: 8. “A/V Control System must also be capable to feed audio and video signals from all rooms to a computer or manufacturer specific equipment for streaming purposes.”

a. What software will be used? DCS?

b. Is only the cameras switched video and audio mix to be send to this streaming device?

c. Is the streaming device contractor provided or government provided? If contractor provided, does the device have to work with DCS?

d. How many are required/provided?

Answer: 8a - d. Software is irrelevant. We require a single HD (combined audio and video) output to feed into a computer or manufacturers streaming hardware.

DCS will not be used, historically we've used LiveStream. Contractor is to provide one streaming hardware (computer or manufacturers streaming hardware).

Question: 9.“One (1) Storage Area Network (SAN) with 50 Tera Bytes of storage being fed by cameras in all four training rooms.”

a. Is the requirement to ISO record each camera? Or, only the output of the switcher for each room?

b. Is a NAS acceptable?

c. What is the required recording codec, wrapper, format, frame dimensions, fps, etc.

Answer: 9a - c. The intent is to record the output of the switcher. NAS is acceptable.

H.264/MPEG-4 (AVI or AVCHD,MXF, MOV, MKV).

Question: 10. Please confirm only one IP Codec is required and is to be shared between all four rooms.

Answer: 10. I'm not sure what this question is referring to? More specifics or reference the SOW.

Question: 11. “Two (2) Wall and/or Ceiling mounted PTZ cameras.”

a. What is the required resolution for the PTZ cameras? 720p, 1080i, or 1080p.

Answer: 11. 720p minimum, preferably 1080i.

Question: 12. Is audio teleconferencing (ATC) required?

a. If so, is the requirement for one system shared by all four (4) rooms? Or, one system per room?

b. Will DINFOs provide POTs lines from their phone system or telec for this functionality?

Answer: 12a & b. Audio teleconferencing (ATC) is not required. The requirement is for one VTC to be shared by all four rooms.

Question: 13. “Total number of racks must be sufficient to house all required equipment plus four government supplied PCs, and an expansion capability of 26RU minimum.”

a. Will it only be controlled at the lectern? Or, do you also need local control in the control room?

b. Can the government supplied PC be located at each operations desk? Or, must it go in the rack?

Answer: 13a & b. PC's need to be controlled at the lectern and in the control room. We would prefer PC's be located in the racks to minimize equipment at operations desk.

Question: 14. “Four (4) digital media (Blu-ray) playback devices.”

a. Are these to be located in the rack, one at each operations desk, or no preference?

Answer: 14. Blu-ray playback devices should be in racks.

Question: 15. One (1) 15” LCD monitor, connected to government provided PC in control room (117), to be located at lectern.

a. Is a larger monitor acceptable?

b. Is the monitor to go on an arm or mounted in the turret frame?

Answer: 15a & b. Monitor should not be larger than 17" and mounted on an arm.

Question: 16 I have another question concerning the AV service panels. It asks for "two digital audio and video inputs from camera". Please confirm that this for roving cameras in addition to the installed PTZ cameras? We need to size the switcher accordingly.

Answer: 16 Correct, the "two digital audio and one video input" is for roving cameras.

Question: 17.You ask for the clear QAM tuners to be mounted with the projectors with the output to the switch - not to the projector. Is it acceptable to mount these with the switch?

Answer: 17. This is a mistake, all we require is the output of the tuner to go straight into the HDMI input on the projectors.

Question: 18.Where are the PTZ cameras to be controlled from? The lectern control panel or the control room or both. There is mention of cameramen - where are these located? Do they need preview of all cameras or switchable?

Answer: 18. PTZ cameras should be controlled from the control room only. We only mention cameramen for the intercom system. Cameramen will not always be used.

Question: 19. Are the GFE computers to be rack mount. Do they have HDMI outputs?

Answer: 19. No they don’t, they are all DVI.

Question: 20.Do you require stereo in the rooms (the spec says hi fidelity sound)?

Answer: 20. Yes.

Question: 21. Are partition switches already installed? No.

Answer: 21. No

Question: 22. Is there any need for POTS or SIP teleconferencing or just VTC.

Answer: 22. No need for POTS or Secure IP.

Question: 23.Can you please clarify what is meant by audibly and visually monitoring in control room. Does this mean camera images, projected content or both. How large are the images to be? Is the audio to be on headsets or loudspeakers or both? What are we to provide? Does the control room need any microphones apart from intercom.

Answer: 23. Yes, we want to be able to monitor video and audio. Video displays for monitoring do not to be more that 22” displays and audio should be able to be monitored both by headsets and loudspeakers. Control room does not need microphones, just the intercom system.

Question: 24. There is no mention of projection screens. Are we to supply these. If so please define size and ambient lighting conditions. Are they fixed or electrically operated?

Answer: 24. 13’ Screens are already installed.

Question: 25. Is there a dimensioned room layout available? Are there any photographs?

Answer: 25. CAD drawing of rooms are attached.

Question: 26. Are we being asked to provide streaming output from the AV system? Is that desirable?

Answer: 26. Not just a streaming output but as the SOW states, “A/V Control System must also be capable to feed audio and video signals from all rooms to a computer or manufacturer specific equipment for streaming purposes”.

Question: 27. Will it be possible to have remote Internet access to the control system for maintenance and trouble shooting. This only need be activated when needed and will not see any of the video or audio.

Answer: 27. This is not possible now but yes, this will be possible eventually. Probably not for another 6 months to a year.

Question: 28. Presume two wireless combo systems needed each with interchangeable handheld and lavalier mics - wording slightly confusing.

Answer: 28. No, we want a total of four handheld wireless mics and four lavalier wireless mics, one each in each of the four rooms.

Question: 29. Will the control room personnel need keyboard/mouse control of the PC's instead of or as well as the podium mounted ones.

Answer: 29. Control room personnel will need keyboard/mouse control of the PC's as well as the podium mounted ones.

Question: 30. Are the podiums to be portable?

Answer: 30. The Government is providing the podium.

Question: 31. Can you specify the LED lighting in more detail: location, color and output.

Answer: 31. After further discussion, this is not required and we would like to remove this from the requirement.

Question: 32. Section 7 on page 6 of the SOW mentions a DD-254 but I don't see one in the solicitation documents. Is there a DD-254 for this project and if yes, may I get a copy? I don’t have a DD-254.

Answer: 32. DD-257 not required.