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The New York District plans to solicit and award a construction project for subject project in FY20. This notification serves three (3) purposes: A. To notify potential bidders of the Government’s int... The New York District plans to solicit and award a construction project for subject project in FY20. This notification serves three (3) purposes: A. To notify potential bidders of the Government’s intent to solicit a brand name(s) only component for this project. B. To identify potential sources that can provide an equivalent to the brand name only item(s). C. Notification of the Army’s intent to solicit brand name components as described below. The item described below, under summary of requirements, are embedded in the construction project. The contract will be issued as a competitive Invitation for Bid solicitation. Only the components described below will be sole source, if no other sources are identified that can provide an equivalent system. In the event no equivalent sources are found, the brand name only justification will be issued pursuant to FAR Part 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source. A subsequent market survey will not be published in support of a Justification and Approval for sole sourcing. Supplies of the brand name component will be provided directly to the Contractor(s) and not to the Government. Summary of Requirement: A. Shark 200 Meter Due to post wide compatibility issues and based on the capabilities described below of the Shark 200 meter, all new construction and renovation projects at the USMA, West Point are now featuring the latest version of the Shark 200 meter. All incoming electrical services shall be metered at the main distribution switchboard, on the line side of the service disconnect switch. Meters shall be revenue grade with advanced I/O and power quality. Meter shall be sole sourced to Shark 200 as manufactured by Electo Industries/GaugeTech. No substitutions will be permitted, as it’s an approved meter that can be connected to the existing accredited metering network. Any other meter cannot be connected to the West Point’s Metering Network. Shark 200 meter shall be equipped with V2 of higher V-Switch technology. Meter shall be provided with INP100S and PO1S I/O boards for communication. For utility meters installed by other trades (water, gas, steam, etc.), run the MODBUS or Pulse output cable from each utility meters to the Shark meter in a 3/4" conduit and terminate it into the PO1S I/O board (min of 4 connections required). Run a Cat6E cable from the shark meter's INP100S I/O board to the NEC IT room to connect meter into West Point's Metering Network. Any vendor that wishes to provide an alternate source to the brand names above that is compatible with the above must provide a response with data supporting the claim within 15 business days of this announcement to New York District Corps of Engineering, Contracting Division. This is a market survey and notification of intent only. This is not a request to respond to a solicitation. This requirement will be solicited at a future date.