RECOVERY--C--PROJECT NUMBER 008242, Lidar Bathymetery/Shoals

RECOVERY PER FAR 5.7, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY; THERFORE FAR 5.203 DOES NOT APPLY. THIS OPPORTUNIY WAS AVAILABLE ONLY TO CONTRACTOR UNDER THE CURRENT CONTRACT NUMBER: The Mobile District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is placing a task order against Contract No. W91278-07-D-0088, 3001, Inc. Fairfax, Va. dated 27 July 2007, which has already been competed and awarded as an Indefinite Delivery Contract for Supplies and Services to support the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. TASK ORDER #18. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) requires equipment spares to support operation of its airborne sensor suite, to buy-down risk associated with equipment failure. The JALBTCX operates an airborne coastal mapping and charting system consisting of a bathymetric & topographic lidar, hyperspectral & photogrammetric imager 365 days per year world-wide to accomplish its coastal mapping and tactical nautical charting missions for the USACE and the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office. Support equipment to field office operations are subjected to constant wear and tear from packing and unpacking, shipping, and transport in field vehicles. Successful airborne sensor suite field operations and product delivery relies on a combination of good weather and water clarity, occasional operational constraints on solar angle and stage of the tide, and aircraft, sensor, and support equipment health. These last three are the only ones that can be influenced by human intervention. The aircraft travels with an engineer and a set of spares with which to make repairs so that aircraft health is rarely a constraint on operations. Spares for the major sub-components of the airborne sensor suite were purchased through a previous task order on this contract. This task order addresses a requirement for spares of the major field support equipment items, so that field operations can continue uninterrupted in the event of failure of the existing field suite equipment.