ACAN - LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) DRIVE TEST TOOL SOFTWARE
SOLUTION

Trade Agreement: WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT/Canada FTAs with
Peru/Colombia/Panama
Tendering Procedures: Generally only one firm has been invited
to bid
Non-Competitive Procurement Strategy: Exclusive Rights
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No
Vendor Name and Address: 
ASCOM NETWORK TESTING INC.
1943 Isaac Newton Square
Reston Virginia
United States
20190
Nature of Requirements: 

U6800-141822/C
Wong, Vincent
Telephone No. - (819) 956-3769
Email - Vincent.Wong@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca


This bid solicitation cancels and supersedes previous bid
solicitation number U6800-141822/B dated 2015-07-20 with a
closing of 2015-08-31 at 14:00 EDT. A debriefing or feedback
session will be provided upon request to bidders who bid on the
previous solicitation. 


ADVANCED CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) DRIVE TEST TOOL SOFTWARE SOLUTION


1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) 

An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community
that a department or agency intends to award a contract for
goods, services or construction to a pre-identified supplier,
thereby allowing other suppliers to signal their interest in
bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no
supplier submits a statement of capabilities that meets the
requirements set out in the ACAN, on or before the closing date
stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer may then proceed
with the award to the pre-identified supplier. 


2. Definition of the requirement

The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) has a
requirement for a commercial off-the-shelf multifunction Long
Term Evolution (LTE) Drive Test Tool Software Solution (the
"Solution"), inclusive of acquisition and analysis functions,
and associated maintenance and support. The Solution is required
to deliver, enable and support LTE Drive Test acquisition and
analysis functionality and performance requirements as
specificed under "Minimum Essential Requirements" below. 

The Solution's acquisition and analysis functions must be
separate instances and must operate on the same or on a
different hardware platform simultaneously. The Solution is
intended to be used on an end-to-end LTE wireless network in
support of CRC's ongoing research and development initiatives. 

The Solution will be used to connect to a wide variety of
specialised LTE user devices (UEs), one or multiple units at a
time, both in laboratory and in mobile outdoor (in-field)
environments. This will enable several test and evaluation uses
cases on CRC's experimental LTE networks, including: performance
benchmarking, network verification, optimization and
maintenance, initial radio access tuning and site acceptance and
service quality monitoring. For laboratory environments, it is
expected that both the acquisition and analysis functions of the
Solution will be hosted on a networked server(s). For in-field
mobile environments, both the acquisition and analysis functions
could be hosted on a mobile PC (e.g. laptop) platform(s). CRC
will be providing all necessary hardware platforms to host the
Solution in addition to the end-to-end LTE networks operating in
3GPP Band Class 13 and 14, including specialized user devices
and/or radio frequency scanners. 

The Solution must also include associated warranty,
documentation, and initial and optional ongoing maintenance and
support services. 


3. Criteria for assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
(Minimum Essential Requirements)

Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement
of capabilities that its solution meets the following
requirements:

3.1 General

(a) The Solution must not require any connectivity to or
dependency on externally-hosted server(s) outside of Canada'
control for the Solution to function and operate in accordance
with the requirements of this Contract.
(b) The Solution must work and operate properly in Windows 7, 64
bit and 32 bit platforms.
(c) The Solution must have an internal mapping view.
(d) The Solution must have an acquisition function and an
analysis function that are separate instances.
(e) The Solution must have the acquisition function and the
analysis function operate simultaneously on either the same
hardware platform or on different hardware platforms.

3.2 Acquisition Function

(a) The Solution's acquisition function must work with LTE User
Equipment (UE) devices that operate in Frequency Division
Duplexing (FDD) and Time Division Duplexing (TDD).
(b) The Solution's acquisition function must work with LTE UE
devices that operate in 3GPP defined Band Class 13 and Band
Class 14 frequencies.
(c) The Solution's acquisition function must work with LTE UE
devices of various form factors, including: USB modems and
smartphones.
(d) The Solution's acquisition function must work and be
compatible with LTE devices that have any of the following
chipsets: Qualcomm, GCT, and Altair.
(e) The Solution's acquisition function must measure the
performance of protocols, including but not limited to: FTP,
HTTP, UDP, TCP, Ping and POP email protocol.
(f) The Solution's acquisition function must log, decode and
present real-time analysis of Layer 1 messages and related
events collected by the Solution, including: 1. connect, 2.
disconnect, 3. handover 4. success/failure, and 5. error
messages.
(g) The Solution's acquisition function must log and decode
Layer 2 and 3 messages collected by the Solution.
(h) The Solution's acquisition function must reference all Data
collected by the Solution to the Solution's internal mapping
view using either outdoor coordinates obtained by GPS or indoor
coordinates based on reference points (pinpointing) placed onto
a geo-referenced image.
(i) The Solution's acquisition function must integrate a
geographic information system (GIS) and imagery (e.g. satellite,
aerial) overlay application in the Solution' internal mapping
view.
(j) The Solution's acquisition function must provide a
User-configurable workspace in the Solution's graphical user
interface (GUI) for items including: displaying a combination of
maps, GPS, throughput, radio frequency (RF) signal, neighbour
cell IDs, neighbour signal levels, modulation, coding, CGI,
Layer 2 and 3 messages, events and any other Data that is
generated or collected by the Solution.
(k) The Solution's acquisition function must provide data rate
metric in support of throughput measurements when data is
transferred to and from a UE.
(l) The Solution's acquisition function must be compliant and
compatible with PCTel' SeeGull IBFlex RF Scanner.
(m) The Solution's acquisition function must allow a User to
build scripts for automated testing and reporting.
(n) The Solution's acquisition function must be compliant and
compatible with GPS devices that make use of the National Marine
Electronics Association (NMEA) protocol 0183 and that have a USB
interface.

3.3 Analysis Function

(a) The Solution's analysis function must work with LTE User
Equipment (UE) devices that operate in Frequency Division
Duplexing (FDD) and Time Division Duplexing (TDD).
(b) The Solution's analysis function must send all Data
collected by the Solution to the Solution's internal mapping
view for analysis.
(c) The Solution's analysis function must integrate a geographic
information system (GIS) and imagery (e.g. satellite, aerial)
overlay application in the Solution's internal mapping view.
(d) The Solution's analysis function must support outdoor and
indoor (e.g. geocoded image or floor plan) mapping overlay
functionality from the Solution' internal mapping view.
(e) The Solution's analysis function must display and filter all
levels of signaling messages, including Layer 1, Layer 2 and
Layer 3 messages.
(f) The Solution's analysis function must display and filter
radio base station statistics generated from Data collected by
the Solution for graphical visualization of network performance
(e.g. parameters including RSSI, handover performance,
connection percentage to a sector, and the percentage of use for
each modulation and coding scheme).
(g) The Solution's analysis function must log, translate and
decode Data logs, either Solutiongenerated or imported into the
Solution by a User in the following formats: generic text file
(.txt), Qualcomm (.DLF & ISF) and PCTel Scanner (.DTF).
(h) The Solution's analysis function must allow a User to create
report templates that include any Data generated by the Solution
or imported into the Solution by a User.
(i) The Solution's analysis function must display multiple Data
logs (Solution-generated or imported into the Solution by a
User) within the Solution.
(j) The Solution's analysis function must combine multiple Data
logs (Solution-generated or imported into the Solution by a
User) into a single log within the Solution.
(k) The Solution's analysis function must automatically generate
pre-defined reports (User and/or Solution-generated) from Data
collected by the Solution that outline LTE parameters such as
RSSI, handover performance, connection percentage to a sector,
and the percentage of use for each modulation.
(l) The Solution's analysis function must allow a User to build
scripts to automatically load and process new Data, as it
becomes available, from a pre-defined folder (locally accessible
or shared on a local network) to generate reports.
(m) The Solution's analysis function must allow a User to define
custom report parameters based on Data collected from the
Solution's acquisition function.

3.4 Definition: 

"Data" means any information that is collected, obtained, used
in, stored, generated, or produced as a result of the use or
access of the Solution by a User.


4. Applicability of the trade agreement(s) to the procurement 

This procurement is subject to the following trade agreements: 
 - Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
 - World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government
Procurement (WTO-AGP)


5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier

Ascom Network Testing, Inc. is the only known supplier who meets
all mandatory performance and minimum essential requirements.


6. Government Contracts Regulations Exception(s)

The following exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
is invoked for this procurement under subsection 6(d) - "only
one person is capable of performing the work".


7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons 

The following exclusions and/or limited tendering reasons are
invoked under the section of the trade agreements specified: 
 
Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) - Article 506 paragraph 11 (f)
"in the absence of a receipt of any bids in response to a call
for tenders made in accordance with the procedures set out in
this Chapter."

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - Article 1016.2 (a)
"in the absence of tenders in response to an open or selective
call for tenders, or where the tenders submitted either have
resulted from collusion or do not conform to the essential
requirements of the tender documentation, or where the tenders
submitted come from suppliers that do not comply with the
conditions for participation provided for in accordance with
this Chapter, on condition that the requirements of the initial
procurement are not substantially modified in the contract as
awarded;"

World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement
(WTO-AGP) - Article XV 1. (a)
"in the absence of tenders in response to an open or selective
tender, or when the tenders submitted have been collusive, or
not in conformity with the essential requirements in the tender,
or from suppliers who do not comply with the conditions for
participation provided for in accordance with this Agreement, on
condition, however, that the requirements of the initial tender
are not substantially modified in the contract as awarded;"


8. Ownership of Intellectual Property 

Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of
the proposed contract will vest in the Contractor.


9. Period of the proposed contract 

The proposed Contract is for a period of 1 year from date of
Contract Award. 

The proposed Contract includes options to extend the contract
period for up to an additional two, one-year periods.


10. Name and address of the pre-identified supplier 

Ascom Network Testing, Inc.
1943 Isaac Newton Square
Reston, Virginia
20190
United States


11. Suppliers' right to submit a statement of capabilities 

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the goods, services or construction services
described in the ACAN may submit a statement of capabilities in
writing to the contact person identified in this notice on or
before the closing date of this notice. The statement of
capabilities must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the
advertised requirements.


12. Closing date for a submission of a statement of capabilities 

The closing date and time for accepting statements of
capabilities is October 26, 2015 at 2:00pm EDT.


13. Inquiries and submission of statements of capabilities

Inquiries and statements of capabilities are to be directed to: 

Vincent Wong 
Software and Shared Systems Procurement Directorate 
Public Works and Government Services Canada 
Place du Portage III, 4C1 
11 rue Laurier, Gatineau (Québec)
K1A 0S5

Telephone: (819) 956-3769
E-mail: Vincent.Wong@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

You are hereby notified that the government intends to negotiate
with one firm only as identified above. Should you have any
questions concerning this requirement, contact the contracting
officer identified above.

An Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN) allows departments and
agencies to post a notice, for no less than fifteen (15)
calendar days, indicating to the supplier community that it
intends to award a good, service or construction contract to a
pre-identified contractor. If no other supplier submits, on or
before the closing date, a Statement of Capabilities that meets
the requirements set out in the ACAN, the contracting authority
may then proceed with the award.  However, should a Statement of
Capabilities be found to meet the requirements set out in the
ACAN, then the contracting authority will proceed to a full
tendering process.

Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available
to provide the services/goods described herein, may submit a
statement of capabilities in writing to the contact person
identified in this Notice on or before the closing date of this
Notice. The statement of capabilities must clearly demonstrate
how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.

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closing date of the ACAN must appear on the outside of the
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transmission, on the covering page.

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.