28 August 2004.

NASA has removed this announcement of a TSCM sole-source contract award, and asked a mail list to remove the link to it (Cryptome has not been contacted). Apparently the announcement revealed a classified TSCM system and provided evaluation of other TSCM systems used by the government. NASA, State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency were reportedly involved in contracting for the system. The system is now likely to be abandoned due to this announcement being published.

Source on 25 August 2004: http://www.eps.gov/spg/NASA/HQ/OPHQDC/NNH04073384Q/SynopsisP.html

63--SCENARIOFLEX PORTABLE TECHNICAL SURVEILLANCE COUNTER MEASURES SYSTEM

Document Type:	Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number:	NNH04073384Q
Posted Date:	Aug 24, 2004
Original Response Date:	Sep 07, 2004
Current Response Date:	Sep 07, 2004
Original Archive Date:	Aug 24, 2005
Current Archive Date:	Aug 24, 2005
Classification Code:	63 -- Alarm, signal & security detection equipment
Naics Code:	561621 -- Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths)

Contracting Office Address

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Description

NASA intends to award a sole source contract to SystemWare, Inc. of Thousand Oaks, California, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), only one responsible source.     This procurement is for the purchase of the ScenarioFlex Portable Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) System.       This system will include the hardware and software that make up the system plus an extended warranty and maintenance agreement of three years.     The ScenarioFlex Portable TSCM System is a self contained computer using the vendor's proprietary hardware and software configured in such a way by the vendor that it can detect, analyze, identify, and discriminate among radio frequency signals and electrical impulses in a far more sophisticated manner than lesser such systems available to private industry.     This ScenarioFlex Portable TSCM System being purchased was developed by SystemWare, Inc. to meet standards set by the U. S. Army and the Department of Defense.     Those standards are considered in the counter surveillance community to be the highest and most sensitive available for use by U. S. Government agencies.     SystemWare is the sole supplier of the ScenarioFlex Portable TSCM System.         The ScenarioFlex Portable TSCM System also is an upgrade of this type of system usually found in private industry applications.     The private industry version would not be acceptable to NASA.     The upgraded application is available only to U. S. Government agencies, and it was developed to U. S. Army and Department of Defense specifications.     This is the highest level and most capable radio frequency and electronic signal detection, analysis and identification system available for counter surveillance inspection and detection work generally available to U. S. Government agencies.     The ScenarioFlex Portable TSCM System contains 17 hardware and software components, among which 10 are proprietary items that only SystemWare, Inc. can provide.     Any such counter surveillance inspection and detection equipment acquired needs to be the same as used by other Federal agencies, because NASA Security Specialists team with those other agencies to perform inspection and detection sweeps at different locations. All the different agency specialists involved in those sweeps have to be able to operate each other's equipment without difficulty or delay in order to conduct the sweeps effectively.     Familiarity with the equipment and its capabilities and characteristics is of paramount importance to the NASA Security Specialists and the Security Specialists of other Federal agencies who will be sharing each other's equipment.     The ScenerioFlex Portable TSCM System not only fulfills NASA's functional requirements, but, more importantly, it is the system being used by most of the other Federal agencies that Code NASA Security Specialists will be working with in shared services situations. The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12.       See Note 26. See note 22.       Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. Any determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government. An Ombudsman has been appointed.     See NASA Specific Note "B". Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.

Original Point of Contact

Delia B. Robey, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-8109, Fax (301) 286-0357, Email Delia.B.Robey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

Email your questions to Delia B. Robey at Delia.B.Robey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

Current Point of Contact

Delia B. Robey, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-8109, Fax (301) 286-0357, Email Delia.B.Robey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

Email your questions to Delia B. Robey at Delia.B.Robey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

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