Army shopping industry for rugged, lightweight handheld GPS receivers with 2.6-inch screens
Officials of the Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., issued a sources-sought notice this week (MARKET-SURVEY-5798-1) for companies able to provide as many as 592 handheld GPS receivers.
The receivers must have screens as large as 2.6 inches diagonal; weight no more than 6.75 ounces without batteries; be rugged and waterproof per IPX7 standards; and have 16-bit color touchscreen displays.
The receivers also must have 7.8-meter accuracy with 95 percent confidence; switchable English and Arabic displays; topographic maps covering Iraq and its borders with adjacent countries; and the ability to overlay high-resolution satellite imagery.
Receivers also must be able to store at least 999 waypoints sortable by name, number, type; store at least 15 routes created via the touch-screen display; provide notification to user of waypoint arrival and direction and distance to next waypoint; compass with graphical display; optional removable Micro SD card; run on AA size lithium batteries; and have a USB port for RS-232 interface and external power.
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Army CECOM experts will uses responses to this market survey to determine if they will conduct a formal industry competition.
Companies able to meet these requirements and who are interested in a possible future competition should email responses no later than 25 March 2015 to CECOM's Steven Cooper at [email protected].
For technical questions contact Steven Cooper by phone at 443-395-6992, or by email at [email protected].
More information is online at https://www.fbo.gov/notices/7bd77153ea7a983305fb693536b35b17.
