SOLICITATION NOTICE
J -- Operations and Maintenance Services Base Telecommunications System
- Notice Date
- 3/28/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 517110
— Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, 38 EIG/PK, 4064 Hilltop Road, Tinker AFB, OK, 73145-2713
- ZIP Code
- 73145-2713
- Solicitation Number
- FA8773-05-R-0004
- Response Due
- 5/23/2005
- Archive Date
- 11/23/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The 38th Engineering Installation Group/PKL, Contracting Division, has a requirement for non-personal services for operations, maintenance and recurring support services of the Base Telecommunications Systems (BTS) at March ARB, CA. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on 5 May 2005. If your company is interested in attending the Pre-Proposal Conference, please provide the name, company position and social security number of those individuals who will be attending. This information can either be faxed to the attention of Mr. Donald Combs or Mr. Michael Klobuchar at (951) 655-5052 or e-mailed to Donald.Combs@march.af.mil or to Michael.Klobuchar@march.af.mil. The proposed contract is for a base year of 12 months with 4 one-year options. Contractor shall perform operation and maintenance on the switching system(s), transmission equipment, ancillary equipment, customer premise equipment (CPE), and the inside and outside cable plant and perform recurring support services. The Dial Central Office Voice Switching System is a Lucent Technologies Definity System G3r, with software Release 11.2. The G3r is equipped with approximately 5,246 ports and wired for 13,000 universal ports. Foreign participation is permitted only at the subcontractor level. Copies of the solicitation will be provided to foreign firms only in order that they may pursue subcontracting opportunities. This acquisition is competitively set aside 100% for small business concerns. For this acquisition, a concern will be considered small under North American Classification System (NAICS) code 517110 with Size Standard 1,500 employees. Based upon market research, the Government is not using the policies contained in Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in this solicitation for the described supplies or services. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Joseph P. Maryeski, Director, Commander?s Staff, (781) 377-5106. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. No telephone request for the Request for Proposal (RFP) will be accepted. The RFP will be paperless and will be released using Electronic Posting System (EPS) via (www.eps.gov). The RFP will contain files in MS Word 2000 and MS Excel 2000. Do not request any documents in writing. A registration page for the solicitation will be available at the solicitation Web page. All offerors who wish to participate in this solicitation must complete the registration page which places them on the solicitation source list. Offerors should submit all questions or comments relative to the solicitation electronically via e-mail to the Point of Contacts listed above. All proposals must be submitted in a hard copy per the proposal preparation instructions in Section L of the solicitation. Vendors are required to be registered in Central Contractor Registration (http://www.ccr.gov/index.asp).
- Place of Performance
- Address: March ARB, CA
- Zip Code: 46971
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 46971
- Record
- SN00777052-W 20050330/050328211801 (fbodaily.com)
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