Sources Sought/Synopsis For Aws-3 Spectrum Tender in USA - 35234900

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Sources Sought/Synopsis For Aws-3 Spectrum Migration

Deadline: 09 Aug 2019

Posting Date: 05 Aug 2019

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 35234900

Document Ref. No.: W52P1J-19-R-AWSR

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

CPV Classification

72212000 - Programming services of application software

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Advanced wireless services (aws) is the term the federal communications commission (fcc) uses for radio communication services licensed in the bands listed under part 27 of the fcc's rules. The commission has designated several different aws spectrum bands (aws-1 through aws-4) and each covers a different band of frequencies. The national telecommunications and information administration (ntia), working in conjunction with fcc, has given notice to all federal agencies that they must vacate the aws-3 spectrum band (1755 to 1780 mhz). Agencies operating in this band must migrate to another frequency band in order to make room for new commercial wireless services under the aws-3 spectrum sale. This expands on the work to the spectrum relocation aws-1 effort; where federal agencies vacated the 1710 to 1755 mhz frequency band. Under this effort army microwave radios operating in the 1755-1850 mhz band will be migrated to the 8 ghz federal frequency band.
The pdm wess aws-3 mission is to migrate continental u.s. (conus) based army microwave radios operating in the 1755-1780 mhz band into the 7-8 ghz federal frequency band. This will include the u.s. Army atc at fort rucker, al; and fort campbell, ky., and the usace at sacramento, ca; and fort worth, tx.
The aws-3 system infrastructure, currently existing in the field, consists of communication towers, repeater sites, parabolic antennas and waveguides (a device confining and conveying microwaves), also included are management terminals and voice logging recorders for atc functions. The same physical infrastructure for the 1755-1780 mhz band will remain for the 7 - 8 ghz band. The weight of the 7 - 8 ghz antenna is significantly greater than the 1755-1780 mhz antenna employed. For this reason, the contractor must retrofit the 7 - 8 ghz antennas to the towers.
Dod policy requires the use of an internet protocol (ip) packet radio architecture for the re-establishment of previous microwave capabilities, or fo...

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