SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Request for Information About Commercially Available SmartPhone/PDA Devices and Related Usage Services
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-04-182-RFI-3
- Response Due
- 8/31/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/1/2004
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS; IT IS STRICTLY A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). NEITHER UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS NOR ANY OTHER KINDS OF OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFI. The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD is currently performing market research to determine what kinds of commercial service offerings and related capabilities currently exist for SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices and related usage services to address nationwide and international coverage for NIST personnel for capabilities that would include everything required to immediately begin placing and receiving calls/eMail/calendaring on such a device. Along those lines, NIST seeks responses to this RFI from commercial sources to indicate what kinds of SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices and related usage services that they currently offer. In responding to this RFI, respondents should indicate whether currently commercially available solutions are available that can provide one or more of the following services/capabilities and exactly how the system works: 1. Currently available SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices, specifications for those devices, and features and capabilities of those devices, as well as, at a minimum: - Indication of whether a trade-in program for older devices is available. - Warranty offerings - Repair offerings for broken devices not covered by warranty or outside of warranty provisions - Replacement policy of older devices on some periodic basis 2. Details of currently available device usage plans and/or other related usage plans that may be purchased with the currently available SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices, including whether, at a minimum: - minutes for usage could be rolled over and/or shared among multiple users - discounts are available based on level of consumption of a large number of users and, if so, how it works - any other discounts are available based on a large number of users that all have the same service - termination charges could be waived for early termination of individual device plans if they are part of a pool of users all under the same usage plan Next, NIST seeks commercial list price information (or possible range of pricing if commercial list price does not exist) for SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices and usage plans, as noted above, that are currently available in the marketplace. This pricing should reflect how current SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices and related usage plans are currently priced and structured for commercial marketplace sales, including any tiered pricing that is available. Finally, NIST seeks to determine whether currently commercially available SmartPhone/PDA wireless devices and usage plans could potentially be procured on a multiple year contract basis (i.e., contract with a base period of one year and one-year options to extend the term of the contract after that) for each year including pre-priced line items for predefined SmartPhone/PDA wireless device specifications and usage plans for them.) Respondents should email responses and, if available, commercially available literature and commercial list price information to Joseph.Widdup@nist.gov no later than August 31, 2004. Such responses will be used to assist NIST in determining how to construct minimum requirements in the event that a procurement is conducted in the future.
- Record
- SN00629310-W 20040725/040723211831 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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