Microwave Upgrade Specifications. HSMM engineers are well qualified in microwave system engineering and design, and we intend to accept full responsibility for the design of the system to the performance specifications of the Commonwealth for the wideband system as described in this scope of work. The microwave equipment vendor’s engineers, however, are uniquely qualified to do detailed site design and system integration design, since they have access to design information specific to the current revisions and versions of the equipment they work with. This information, at the detail design level, is not provided on a current basis to outside personnel either via documentation or training. The description contained in this sub-task section is based on HSMM providing functional, performance procurement specifications and the microwave vendor’s engineers developing the detailed design to meet these specifications under our review. HSMM will prepare functional, performance procurement specifications for the microwave sites and microwave system performance of the LMR sites. This will include antenna selection and placement, antenna system design, major equipment selection and placement, preliminary facilities and site design (including grounding design) at each site. The microwave vendor, as part of their contract, will perform detailed site specific design under our review. This will include all design and engineering necessary to implement the HSMM design at that site, such as (but not restricted to) cabling, rack- ups, grounding connection, equipment ordering, equipment mounting, and initial hardware check-out and link optimization. HSMM will prepare functional, performance procurement specifications for the wideband subsystem. This will include network control specification and selection, circuit routing, capacity (including expansion) specification, redundancy design, link performance specification, and alarms and diagnostic design. The microwave vendor, as part of their contract, will perform detailed system design including (but not restricted to) network alarms, control, and supervision equipment ordering, network alignment, cabling, and rack-up and mounting at the network control location. We envision that these specifications will be focussed on the procurement of equipment similar to that used for the digital links of the current microwave network. The microwave network can be described much more rigorously than the LMR network, and therefore, for the purposes of specification develo...
