SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE TO INCLUDE PRIMARILY AVAYA AND NORTEL PHONE SYSTEMS
- Notice Date
- 4/26/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517910
— Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- United States Senate, Office of the Sergeant at Arms, Finance Division, United States Senate, Washington, DC, 20510-7207, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-SSN-2007-S-036
- Response Due
- 5/10/2007
- Archive Date
- 5/11/2007
- Description
- DESC: MARKET SURVEY AND BIDDERS LIST DEVELOPMENT - SOURCES SOUGHT REQUEST FOR MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS NATIONWIDE TO INCLUDE PRIMARILY AVAYA AND NORTEL PHONE SYSTEMS. The purpose of this Sources Sought Notice (Notice) is to gain knowledge of potential qualified industry sources for providing these support services for the United States Senate (Senate), Office of the Sergeant at Arms (SAA) in approximately 475 Senate offices nationwide. All requirements listed below are mandatory unless otherwise noted. This Notice is not a request for proposal and in no way obligates the Senate to an award of a contract. This Notice contains the currently available information which is subject to change at any time. Requirements are stated in terms of minimum capabilities and characteristics required by the Senate. REQUIREMENTS: The Contractor shall provide: 1) a dedicated service advisor and/or single point of contact with appropriate escalation/backup support to assist with escalation resolution and service questions; 2) installation and maintenance services for small office telephone systems, primarily from Avaya and Nortel, in all fifty states; 3) certified Avaya and Nortel technicians; 4) support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to include phone support and certified technicians available before and after core business hours for dispatch to Senate locations in any state if needed. In responding to this Notice, state your qualifications to perform each of the mandatory requirements 1 through 4 listed above. Your response to each requirement must include: a) paragraph numbering identifiable to requirements listed above; b) description of capabilities; and c) organizational information, including your Dun and Bradstreet number and point of contact with telephone, fax and e-mail address. After receipt and review of the responses to this Notice, the SAA intends to issue a solicitation. The information contained in this notice will be the only information provided by the Senate during the Sources Sought process. All qualified sources should respond to this Notice by submitting an information package in accordance with the instructions provided. Vendors responding to this Notice and deemed qualified by the SAA may be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation. Only firms deemed qualified will be permitted to submit proposals. If suitable responses are received from qualified sources, the SAA anticipates release of a solicitation during the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2007. Neither the SAA nor the Senate will be responsible for any costs for the preparation of responses to this request. INSTRUCTIONS: Responses to this Notice are due to the POC no later than May 10, 2007, at Noon EDT and shall be submitted electronically via email only to the POC at acquisitions@saa.senate.gov. The subject line of the email message shall be: SSN 2007-S-036. No other method of transmittal will be accepted. The response shall not exceed ten (10) pages. Unnecessarily elaborate submissions are discouraged. Pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor's information. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE ENTIRE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SAA OR SENATE. ANY REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED.
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