Tactical Communications and Technical Investigative Comprehensive Solutions (TACTICS)

Description: The Contractor shall provide DHS with access to a wide and renewable variety of Tactical Communications (TacCom) and Technical Investigative Surveillance (TechOps) commodity equipment from multiple Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The Contractor shall also provide services such as infrastructure, operation, and maintenance. As defined in individual orders, TacCom equipment/solutions/capabilities will support DHS and the Federal government in the United States and foreign locations. The Contractor shall furnish the necessary equipment, supplies, personnel, materials.travel, and services required to satisfy the ordered TacCom and TechOps requirements. While this SOW identifies the technical categories, the suite of resulting contracts is intended to satisfy the full range of TacCom and TechOps related requirements. The contract scope includes, but is not necessarily limited to: Technical Category 1: Equipment• Radios and Accessories - includes end-user equipment, devices, push-to-talk applications, interfaces, user equipment (cellular devices) and all associated accessories and power systems • Infrastructure - includes software, hardware, communications infrastructure, microwave, backhaul, control/base stations, radios, repeaters, comparators, encryption, antennas, networking, management, dispatch, radio over IP (ROIP), push-to-talk (working with any network connection), private cellular networks, test equipment, and power systems• Maritime/Air - includes tactical communication equipment and accessories to outfit and interface with boat, shipboard and aircraft systems. Also, includes any tactical communications infrastructure unique to a maritime environment. • Satellite - includes end-user equipment, associated accessories, interfaces, antennas and related infrastructure. • Video Equipment, Audio Equipment & Ancillary Systems and Devices - includes equipment, devices, systems, or enclosures/concealments for collecting, processing, powering, transporting, disseminating, storing, exploiting, or managing video, audio, or sensor information. Also includes body worn video devices. Transportation includes wireless, wired or the use of physical media. Technical Category 2: Services • Radios - services required to develop, maintain, program, install, deploy, modify, remove, train, repair, or support any type of radio or radio system, including cellular, mesh, point-to-multipoint, or satellite system• TechOps Systems- services required to develop, maintain, program, install, deploy, modify, remove, train, repair or support any type of TechOps system • O&S Services - services required to operate, provide and sustain TacCom or TechOps systems or services, includes data and service plans for communications systems • Engineering - services required to provide spectrum support, and to architect, design, survey, develop, integrate, test, evaluate or implement TacCom or TechOps systems • General - ability to provide Project Management Services or a variety of other services including Project Management Support (radio, O&S, engineering, training and certification)