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This notice is for market research purposes only and does NOT constitute a request for proposal. This notice shall not be construed as a contract, a promise to contract, or as a commitment of any kind by the Government. The Government is NOT seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals. Failure to respond to this Request for Information (RFI) does not preclude participation in any future Request for Proposal (RFP), if any is issued. This Sources Sought/RFI notice is issued by the Department of the Navy, Director of Submarine Programs (DSP), Undersea Submarine Acoustic Systems Program Office (PMS 401). DRPM SUBs plans to establish an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Contract (IDIQ-MAC) marketplace for the procurement of supplies and support for the Tech Insertion (TI) Acoustic-Rapid COTS Insertion (A-RCI) program. The purpose of this RFI is to gauge interest in companies to be part of the marketplace for the TI A-RCI IDIQ-MAC. The AN/BQQ-10 A-RCI supports the global superiority of the U.S Navy by delivering processing and display upgrades to the SONAR sensors of all submarine classes. A-RCI is a subsystem of the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System (SWFTS). SWFTS coordinates a common processing selection, and network architecture with common services across all sub-systems. SWFTS is transitioning to the concept of Infrastructure Baselines (IBs) in an effort to increase compatibility by reducing variants across the fleet. IBs start with a baseline TI followed by subsequent obsolescence tech refresh TIs. The TI A-RCI IDIQ-MAC is intended to solicit under fair competition procedures among the qualified IDIQ-MAC holders for Task and Delivery Orders for a variety of supplies and services in support of developing/continuing hardware and software solutions, and the associated Integrated Logistics Support (technical manuals, training inputs, parts lists, etc.,) in the maritime domain. The TI A-RCI IDIQ-MAC will have five (5) Functional Areas of which the pool of potential awardees would fall under some or all of the following: 1. Cabinet Design and Production Cabinets are set stacks of servers, switches, and other components that are developed to provide the hardware and power infrastructure for the software to be run and the system to be controlled. The cabinets are constrained by the individual platforms space, weight, power, and cooling (SWAP-C) allocations for each submarine platform class. Cabinets shall be either air-cooled or water-cooled depending on the final application. Cabinets shall contain power conditioning, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) filters, Central Processing Units (CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) based servers, Redundant Array of Independent Disks ( RAIDS), Array power supplies, Network Switches, array interface and timing hardware, and heat exchangers as some of the installed types of equipment. The contractor shall design an array interface and timing edge hardware that is no…

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