HF INTERFEROMETRIC SAS SOFTWARE

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W7707-145707/A Collier, Susan Telephone No. - (902) 496-5350 Fax No. - (902) 496-5016

TITLE: HF INTERFEROMETRIC SAS SOFTWARE

1.1.INTRODUCTION Defence Research and Development Canada - Atlantic intends to procure one (1) modular dual-sided Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) system. The SAS system must be integrated into DRDC's Arctic Explorer class Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), manufactured by International Submarine Engineering Ltd. The proposed contractor must perform the integration of the SAS sensor with the AUV on site at DRDC Atlantic, located at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The proposed contractor must supply all electronics, data storage and additional auxiliary sensors not already included in the AUV configuration (specified in Annex E of the RFP ) required to produce focussed SAS images and interferometric maps. The proposed contractor shall provide SAS beamforming software for post processing of acoustic data and creating geo-located SAS imagery and interferometry.

1.2.BACKGROUND The Mine Defence project, part of the DRDC's Maritime Science and Technology Programme, is focussed on the use of unmanned systems for naval mine countermeasures activities. A key transformational technology in this area has been the development of commercial synthetic aperture sonars (SAS) which provide significant improvements to along-track resolution through the coherent summing of pings as the vehicle follows a straight line trajectory. The increased image resolution and quality can provide better input to other parts of the research programme, such as Automatic Target Recognition, Battlespace Characterization and Marine Autonomy. DRDC has a requirement to acquire a commercial off-the-shelf Interferometric SAS system to be integrated into an Arctic Explorer AUV in order to better achieve the research and development objectives within its programme of work.

A budget of $500,000.00 Canadian dollars taxes extra has been set aside for this project.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL CRITERIA The Synthetic Aperture Sonar system must be in compliance with the Statement of Requirements as detailed in clause 1 of PART 1 - INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTION -Annex A of the RFP.

In order to show compliance with the Statement of Requirements the proposed Contractor must submit a "Performance Inspection and Acceptance Test Plan" as detailed in the RFP and conduct a "Performance Acceptance Test" at DRDC Atlantic facilities as describe below.

METHOD OF SELECTION A bid must comply with the requirements of the bid solicitation and meet all mandatory technical evaluation criteria to be declared responsive. Bids meeting the mandatory requirements will be point rated against the evaluation criteria in Annex B2 of the RFP - Performance Criteria . The lowest responsive cost-per-point proposal within the stated budget of $500,000 (taxes extra) will be recommended for award of a contract.

This requirement is subject to Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

INQUIRIES: All inquiries of a technical nature and all questions of a contractual nature are to be submitted to the Contracting Authority: Susan Collier, telephone (902) 496-5350, facsimile: (902) 496-5016. Inquiries are to be made in writing and should be received no less than five (5) calendars days prior to the closing date to allow sufficient time to respond. Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

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