market survey - request for informationnato unclassified acquisition directorate...

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

Acquisition Directorate

[email protected]

Telephone: +32 (0)2 707 8210

+32 (0)2 707 8770 AGE Ney Fax:

NCIAIACQ/2017/2032 23 October 2017

Market Survey - Request for Information Project "Provide SATCOM Ground Segment Electronic Protective Measures

(EPM) Modem System" Project Serial Number 2016/0CM03121

Capability Package (CP) 9A0130 "Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Transmission Services"

NCI Agency Reference: MS-CO-14672-SATCOM

NCI Agency is seeking information from Nations and their Industry regarding the availability of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Government-Off-The-Shelf (GaTS) modems.

NCI Agency Point of Contact (POC): Ms. Viktorija NAVIKAITË

E-mail: [email protected]

To: Distribution List (Annex A)

Subject: NCI Agency Market Survey Request for Information MS-CO-14672-SATCOM

1. NCI Agency requests the assistance of the Nations and their Industry to identify potential COTS/GaTS solutions available to meet the NATO requirement for providing SATCOM Ground Segment Electronic Protective Measures (EPM) Modem Systems. This Market Survey is being issued to identify potential solutions and possible suppliers for NATO's enhancement of the SATCOM Ground Segment. This project will provide new EPM modem systems (EMS) for the Alliance's new 4th generation Transportable Satellite Ground Terminals (TSGTs) and new Deployable Satellite Ground Terminals (DSGTs) as well as for enhanced anchor capabilities. The project will also provide additional EMS capability for the upgraded 3rd generation TSGTs to allow simultaneous dual satellite operation.

2. In addition to the firms noted in Annex D of this letter, NCI Agency requests the broadest possible dissemination by Nations of this Market Survey Request to their qualified and interested industrial base.

Avenue du Bourget 140 1140 Brussels, Belgium

www.ncia.nato.int

NATO Communications and Information Agency

Agence OTAN d'information et de communication

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

3. A summary of this emerging requirement is set forth in the Annex B attached hereto. Respondents are requested to reply via the questionnaire at Annex C. Other supporting information and documentation (technical data sheets, marketing brochures, catalogue price lists, descriptions of existing installations, etc.) are also desired.

4. The NCI Agency reference for this Market Survey Request is MS-CO-14672-SATCOM, and all correspondence and submissions concerning this matter should reference this number.

5. Responses may be issued to NCI Agency directly from Nations or from their Industry (to the staff indicated at Paragraph 8 of this Market Survey Request). Respondents are invited to carefully review the requirements in Annex B.

6. Responses shall in all cases include the name of the firm, telephone number, e-mail address, designated Point of Contact, and a NATO UNCLASSIFIED description of the capability available and its functionalities. This shall include any restrictions (e.g. export controls) for direct procurement of the various capabilities by NCI Agency. Non-binding product pricing information is also requested as called out in Annex C.

7. Responses are due back to NCI Agency no later than 17:00 Brussels time 13 November 2017.

8. Please send all responses either via post or email to the following NCI Agency Point of Contact:

To Attention of: Ms Viktorija NAVIKAITÉ

Postal address: NCI Agency Acquisition Avenue du Bourget 140 B-1110 Brussels Belgium

E-mail: vi ktorija. navikaite@ncia. nato. i nt

9. Product demonstrations or face-to-face briefings/meetings with industry are not foreseen during this initial stage. Respondents are requested to await further instructions after their submissions and are requested not to contact directly any NCI Agency staff other than the POC identified above in Paragraph 8.

10. Any response to this request shall be provided on a voluntary basis. Negative responses shall not prejudice or cause the exclusion of companies from any future procurement that may arise from this Market Survey. Responses to this request, and any information provided within the context of this survey, including but not limited to pricing, quantities, capabilities, functionalities and requirements will be considered as information only and will not be construed as binding on NATO for any future acquisition.

NATO UNCLASSIFIED



Avenue du Bourget 140 1140 Brussels, Belgium

www.ncia.nato.int

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

11. The NCI Agency is not liable for any expenses incurred by firms in conjunction with their responses to this Market Survey and this Survey shall not be regarded as a commitment of any kind concerning future procurement of the items described.

12. Your assistance in this Market Survey request is greatly appreciated.

FOR THE DIRECTOR OF ACQUISITION:

Enclosures: Annex A (Distribution List) Annex B (Market Survey Request - Summary of Requirements, Project 2005/0CM03074) Annex C (Market Survey Request - Questionnaire) Annex D (Potential Industrial Suppliers, Nel Agency Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) Holders on Distribution)

NATO UNCLASSIFIED



www.ncia.nato.int

Avenue du Bourget 140 1140 Brussels. Belqium

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEXA to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

ANNEXA Distribution List for Market Survey Request for Information

MS-CO-14672-SATCOM

Potential Industrial Suppliers (NCI Agency BOA Holders) 1

NATO Delegations (Attn: Investment Adviser):

Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey The United Kingdom The United States of America

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs 1

Embassies in Brussels (Attn: Commercial Attaché): Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia

1 1 1 1 1

NATO UNCLASSIFIED Page A-1

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey The United Kingdom The United States of America

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEXA to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Page A-2

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEXA to NCIA/ACO/2017/2032

Distribution for information (Blind to Potential Industrial Suppliers):

NATO HQ NATO Office of Resources

Management and Implementation Branch Attn: Deputy Branch Chief

Director, NATO HO C3 Staff Attn: Executive Co-ordinator

SACTREPEUR (as applicable) Attn: Infrastructure Assistant

1

1

1

Strategic Commands (as applicable to funding source) SACT Attn: ACOS C41SR ACO Attn: SPT CIS Director

1 1

NATO Agencies (as applicable) NSPA Attn: Communication and Calibration Programme 1

NCI Agency:

NLO (Mr. X. Desfougeres) DACO (Mr. P. Scaruppe through Ms. E. Kapetanovic) CAB Secretary (Ms. M.L. Le Bourlot) Chief of Contracts (Mr A. Courtois) Legal Adviser (Ms. S. Rocchi) SS (Mr. K. Dixon) DOP ILS (Mr. C. Lucas) NSII SL Chief (Mr. Antonio Calderon) NSII SL EMS Consultant (Mr. J. Marshall) NSII SL SAO (Mr. G. Battista Durando) ASG reo (Ms. T. Pezzi) ASG POC (Ms. V. Navikaitè)

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Registry (for distribution) 1

NATEXs All NATEXs

NATO UNCLASSIFIED Page A-3

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX B to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

ANNEX B Summary of Requirements

Project ID 2016/0CM03121, CP9A0130

NATO has a pool of Transportable Satellite Ground Terminals (TSGTs) and Satellite Ground Station (SGS) anchor terminals that are currently equipped with Electronic Protective Measures (EPM) modems that support operations under jamming conditions. The current generation of EPM modems are compliant with ST ANAG 4606 Edition 2 for serial mode of operation or Edition 3 for IP mode of operation.

NATO is expanding the number of TSGTs and corresponding anchor capability and also has plans to procure new generation of Deployable Satellite Ground Terminals. For all these new capabilities new EPM modems will be required that need to be backward interoperable with the existing STANAG 4606 Edition 2 and Edition 3 EPM modems.

The key capabilities to be provided through deliverables of this project are:

• The EPM modems shall support serial mode of operation as per STANAG 4606 Edition 2 and shall support IP mode of operation as per STANAG 4606 Edition 3.

• The EPM modems shall be delivered as a full system including local modem controllers.

• The EPM modems (excluding local controllers) shall not exceed 1 rack Unit (RU) in height and shall include a serial baseband interface (for serial mode of operation) and an Ethernet baseband interface (for IP mode of operation). In addition the EPM modem shall support a multi-carrier demodulator that can support not less than 4 receive signals.

• The EPM modem shall include as a minimum an L-band Radio Frequency (RF) interface with at least 500 MHz of operating bandwidth.

• Quantity 100+ new EPM modems are required.

• Modem installation in the TSGTs, DSGTs and anchor SGS is not foreseen, at the moment, to be performed by the provider.

• The expected contract award for the EPM modems is December 2018.

NATO UNCLASSIFIED Page B-1

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX C to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

ANNEX C Questionnaire

Organisation name:

Contact name & details within organisation:

Notes • Please DO NOT alter the formatting. If you need additional space to complete

your text then please use the 'Continuation Sheet' at the end of this Annex and reference the question to which the text relates to.

• Please feel free to make assumptions, HOWEVER you must list your assumptions in the spaces provided.

• Please DO NOT enter any company marketing or sales material as part of your answers within this market survey. But please submit such material as enclosures with the appropriate references within your replies. If you need additional space, please use the sheet at the end of this Annex.

• Please DO try and answer the relevant questions as comprehensively as possible.

• All questions within this document should be answered in conjunction with the summary of requirements in Annex B.

• All questions apply to Commercial or Government respondees as appropriate to their Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) or Government off the Shelf (GOTS) product.

• Cost details required in the questions refer to Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Procurement & Life Cycle cost, including all assumptions the estimate is based upon:

- Advantages & disadvantages of your product/solution/organisation, - Any other supporting information you may deem necessary including any

assumptions relied upon.

NATO UNCLASSIFIED Page C-1

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX C to NCIAIACQ/2017/2032

1. Do you produce an EPM modem product compliant with the specifications of Annex B, in particular the capability to interoperate with existing modems in ST ANAG 4606 Edition 2 or Edition 3 mode? If so, please specify the name and type of the product. If not, please list any EPM modem products that are deemed to be close to the specification and state the functional or performance deviations where relevant.

2. Provide the detailed functional and technical specifications of the EPM modem product, including size, power, interface specifications and Reliability figures (MTBF) with applicable environmental conditions.

3. Is your EPM modem product based on a software defined implementation? If so, does your modem support other waveforms and can new waveforms be developed and installed in the future?

4. Are you considering developing a waveform compliant with Draft STANAG 4606 Edition 4? If so, when would such software version be available?

5. Does your EPM modem product require the use of an external modem controller (such as a computer), in order for the modem to be configured and monitored?

6. Does your EPM modem product require the use of a system planning capability (software and workstation) to prepare modem configuration files that will allow a synchronized EPM modem operation?

7. Is your product part of one or more NATO nations' military inventories or is it currently under military or government contract with a NATO nation? If so, state the number of units in the inventory and describe the support framework and processes that are currently in place to support those units.


NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX C to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

8. Has your EPM modem product received any NATO nation-specific certification for operating, or approval to operate, over X-band, Ka-band, or Ku-band payloads? If so, state the applicable certifications or approvals.

9. Has your EPM modem product been security accredited by your national security accreditation authority? If so state the accreditation authority.

10. Please provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) pricing schedule for the EPM Modem product, including any modem controller capability and network planning software. If applicable also please provide a ROM cost estimate for a future upgrade to the STANAG 4606 Edition 4 waveform.

11. Do you have a Service Level Support arrangement to perform level 3 maintenance task for the EPM Modem product for at least 10 years after delivery? If so provide a ROM cost estimate of the yearly support cost for the required quantity of modems.'

12. Do you have compliant modems currently in production and what might be their earliest availability for procurement?

Continuation Sheet Page

Please feel free to add any information you may think that may be of value to of NCI Agency in the space provided below. Should you need additional space, -

please copy this page and continue with the appropriate page numbers. -


NATO UNCLASSIFIED ANNEX C to

NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032


NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX D to NCIAIACQ/2017/2032

ANNEX D Potential Industrial Suppliers

NCI Agency Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) Holders on Distribution

MS-CO-14672-SATCOM

ALBANIA: TCN shpk

BELGIUM: Astron NV Brevco Services SCS Computer Sciences Corporation Gillam-FEI NextiraOne Telindas NV Thales S.A.

BULGARIA:

CANADA: General Dynamics Canada Ltd. Network Innovations Inc. Norsat International Inc.

CROATIA:

CZECH REPUBLIC:

DENMARK:

ESTONIA:

FRANCE: Airbus Defence and Space SAS

GERMANY: IABG mbH KB Impuls Service GmbH T-Systems International GmbH XORTEC GmbH

GREECE:

HUNGARY:

NATO UNCLASSIFIED Page D-1

NATO UNCLASSIFIED

ANNEX D to NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

ICELAND:

ITALY: ITEL SRL NA.EL. SRL

LATVIA:

LITHUANIA:

LUXEMBOURG:

NETHERLANDS: Network Innovations BV Uni Business Centre BV

NORWAY: 3D perception AS Airbus Defence and Space

POLAND: Zbar Phu Mariusz Popenda

PORTUGAL:

ROMANIA:

SLOVAKIA: Aliter Technologies a.s

SLOVENIA:

SPAIN:

TURKEY: ASELSAN Elk. San ve Tic AS. C Tech Bilisim Tek San ve Tic AS. E+M Elektrik Sistem Hizmetleri Ltd. Sti. Kuanta Insaat Taahhut Elektronik Turizm Suta Insaat ve Muhedislik Sirketi

THE UNITED KINGDOM: Airbus DS Ltd Audax General Dynamics United Kingdom Ltd

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Altima Group International, Inc


NATO UNCLASSIFIED ANNEX D to

NCIA/ACQ/2017/2032

Applied Coherent Technology Group AS Global BAE Systems Information Solutions Inc. DRS Technical Services, Inc. EMW, Inc. Forward Slope, Inc Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. Intelligent Waves, LLC L TI DataCom Inc. ManTech International Corporation Pegasus Professional Services LLC PlanlT Group LLC Raytheon CompanyNetwork Centric Systems Sprint Communications Company, LP ViaSat, Inc. Vykin Corporation


market survey - request for informationnato unclassified acquisition directorate...

Documents