Remote Boat

The United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) intends to award a sole source contract for the procurement of a remote control hydrographic survey vessel. The vessel must be designed specifically for integration with the SonTek RS5 Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and the SonTek RSQ data acquisition software. The contract will be awarded to SonTek, a Xylem brand, as they are the only vendor that can provide a system meeting the Government's minimum technical requirements. • The vessel must have proprietary SonTek capabilities such as factory engineered RS5 mounting hardware, native RSQ/RS5 firmware integration, SmartPulse+ processing, SonTek vertical beam corrections, and telemetry modules designed specifically for RS5 data collection. • The vessel must have full, native, and proprietary interoperability with SonTek RS5 and RSQ systems, without adapters, third party integration, or cross platform data conversion. • The contract will be awarded under the authority of FAR 13.501(a)(1)(ii), Sole Source Acquisitions of Commercial Items.