Repair Fire Alarm System Base-Wide
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The primary scope of this requirement is to provide a new Fire Alarm Reporting System (FARS) to restore fire alarm reporting capability for between 1 and 400 facilities on Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), California. The work shall include the installation of new supervisory stations.
The Government requires the Contractor furnish all supervision, labor, equipment, and materials necessary to perform all operations to obtain and install a new type FARS base-wide including all installation, configuration, testing, and training.
Work will also include removal of the currently installed FARS that utilizes AdvantorTM transponders that function by transmitting signals over the base's copper-wired telephone system. Many of these AdvantorTM transponders are no longer operable and are not supported by the manufacturer. Due to the age and poor reliability of the copper telephone infrastructure on Edwards AFB the new FARS shall not utilize the existing copper telephone infrastructure. Fiber optic infrastructure is available for use for between 1 and 300 base facilities. However, there are mutiple buildings do not have fiber optic infrastructure available for use. Many of the base facilities are located in relatively close proximity to the FARS supervisory station locations but some are located a substantial geographical distance from the supervisory locations, such as the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) facility which is located at a distance of approximately 15 miles. (The list of facilities will be provided by the Government upon request).
The installation of the new FARS shall comply with industry standards, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards 72 and 70, and applicable Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC), including UFC 3-600-01, Fire Protection Engineering for Facilities. The new FARS shall comply with Air Force Instruction (AFI) 10-2501, Air Force Emergency Management Program (AFEMP), Chapter 5, "Response and Recovery".
At a minimum the new FARS must transmit from each facility Fire Alarm Control Unit (FACU) an alarm signal, a supervisory signal, and a trouble signal. Existing facility FACUs on EAFB were manufactured by a variety of manufacturers and vary widely in service age, but each can provide at least three dry-contacts for providing alarm, trouble and supervisory signals to the FARS. Replacement of any facility FACUs is not anticipated to be necessary for installation of the new FARS. It is desirable but not mandatory that the new FARS transmit other information from the facility's FACU such as device zones and alarm signal by device type (e.g., water flow, manual pull station, sleeping room smoke detector, etc.)
The communications methods for the new FARS shall utilize one or more of the following technologies as listed in NFPA 72: Digital Alarm Communicator Systems; Two-Way Radio Frequency (RF) Multiplex Systems; One-Way Private Radio Alarm Systems; or, Performance-Based Technologies (e.g., Type N circuitry as listed in NFPA 72). It is recognized by the Government that the new FARS may need to utilize more than one communications method because some base facilities are provided only with copper-base telephone lines (not to be utilized in the new FARS) and the large geographic separation of some base facilities.
The new supervisory stations in the primary Emergency Control Center (ECC) and alternate ECC must be capable of providing emergency scene on-site management/control using software currently approved for Department of Defense (DoD) installations (for example, CoBRA® software). It is desirable but not mandatory that this software be provided and integrated into the supervisory stations.
The Government has determined that there are significant factors other than price that must be considered in the selection of a contractor and intends to use a negotiated process in lieu of sealed bid procedure as allowed in Public Law. EAFB must determine whether the FARS proposed by each offeror is compatible with the facilities existing FACUs, as well as consideration of staffing plans, safety parameters, availability of technical manuals, emergency response times and of notification methods, availability of replacement parts, and qualifications of offerors. These factors may require technical discussions with the offerors.
The Government requests that interested concerns who believe they can fully support this requirement furnish the following information to the individuals listed below: (a) Company name, address, point of contact, telephone number, and e-mail address, small business size. (b) Sufficient detail to allow the Government technical representative to evaluate and determine if the suggested system can meet the Government's requirement. All information furnished shall be in writing and sent to:
Corey Porter, e-mail: corey.porter@us.af.mil
Adrianna Baseggio, e-mail: adrianna.baseggio@us.af.mil
Charles McKinley, e-mail: charles.mckinley.2@us.af.mil
Corey D. Porter, Contract Specialist, Phone 6614007336, Email corey.porter@us.af.mil - Adrianna Baseggio, Contract Specialist, Phone 661-277-3833, Email adrianna.baseggio@us.af.mil
