Says None Of The Companies In The Competition Met Minimum Requirements

The U.S. State Department has cancelled an RFP it had posted for a contract to produce UAVs for domestic surveillance.

In 2011, the DoS had posted the Request for Proposals for the aircraft to provide real-time air surveillance of fixed installations, proposed movement routes and movement operations, and special events thereby improving security in high threat or potentially high threat environments.

In the RFP, the State department said the UAV program was intended to:

• Achieve and maintain situational awareness.
• Automatically generate and disseminate high quality video imaging.
• Respond to a security incident at locations remote from the core of operations.
• Disseminate threat information for use in route planning.
• Receive, view, and analyze in route activity.

In a cancellation notice posted Friday on the Federal Opportunities website, the State Department said it had concluded its evaluation from companies that had submitted proposals,and found that "(n)one of the offerors met the minimum requirements of the Phase 2 UAV Demonstration evaluation for either Tier I or Tier II systems. Therefore, the DOS is hereby cancelling the subject RFP for UAV support services."

The notice said that in the coming weeks, the government plans to closely examine the requirements stipulated in the solicitation with the intent of developing and releasing a new RFP for UAV support services.

FMI: Cancellation Notice