MODIFICATION
60 -- Optical Wave Transport Service
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2012
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 517110
— Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/AMOB, 10401 Fernwood Drive, Suite 2NE70, MSC 4811, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817
- ZIP Code
- 20817
- Solicitation Number
- RML-RFQ-12007
- Archive Date
- 5/25/2012
- Point of Contact
- Barbara D Horrell, Phone: 406-363-9489, Lynda Kieres, Phone: 406-363-9210
- E-Mail Address
-
horrellb@niaid.nih.gov, lkieres@niaid.nih.gov
(horrellb@niaid.nih.gov, lkieres@niaid.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This notice is a combined synopsis/solicitation prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as applicable, and as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotes are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Submit offers on RML-RFQ-12007. The solicitation documents and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-57 dated 03/15/2012 and 2005-56 dated 4/2/2012. This acquisition will be processed under Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) and is not a Small Business Set-Aside. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 517110and the small business size is 1500 employees. SCHEDULE: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), performs basic research contributing to the development of diagnostic reagents, therapeutics and vaccines against human pathogens. The RML constitutes a critical research asset to the whole of NIAID's research community, intramural as well extramural partners. Access by DIR's intramural researchers in Bethesda, Maryland to the state-of-the-art technologies maintained at the RML, as well as the global research community's ability to effectively collaborate with RML researchers are vital to accomplishing the Institute's overall mission. Currently a contract is in place to provide 10GB optical wave transport service from RML to telecom crossroads in Chicago, IL. This acquisition is for commercial service to terminate that 10GB optical wave to NIAID's colocation facility in Ashburn, VA. The Contractor shall receive the optical waves, establish and maintain the 10Gbps fiber optic network transport route listed below. Service delivery to the termination points shall be via 10GB ethernet over dark fiber. Routes: Chicago, Illinois to Ashburn, VA This route originates at a Level3 telecommunications facility in Chicago, Illinois, and terminates at a commercial collocation facility in Ashburn, Virginia, where the NIAID Alternate Processing Facility (APF)is located. Places of performance: Chicago Telecom facility at: Level3 Communications 350 East Cermak Road 5th Floor Chicago, IL 60616 NIAID Collocation Site at: Digital Realty Trust Demarcation Facility 43830 Devin Shafron Drive Ashburn, VA. 20147 Period of Performance The period performance shall be one year from initial service delivery as verified by NIAID testing. Service Definitions: The following are the service definition requirements for dark fiber and wave services for the defined transport routes. Dark Fiber Service. NIAID defines a dark fiber service as point to point fiber optic strands between two locations meeting the ITU-T G.653 or ITU-T G.655 specifications. Chromatic dispersion at 1550 nm should be less than 4.5 ps/nm-km, attenuation should be less than 0.25 dB/km at 1550 nm, and PMD should be less than 0.15 ps/ km. Wave Services. NIAID defines a Wave Service as a lambda delivered on a dark fiber, CWDM or DWDM transport system between two locations. Requirements NIAID is seeking proposals to provide the optical wave transport service described above. The proposed solution must conform to the following minimum requirements. Operational Requirements a. Trouble Reporting i. The contractor must respond to all trouble reports twenty-four (24) hours a day, 365 days per year. ii. The contractor must provide a toll-free trouble reporting number. iii. For all service problems the contractor must provide a status report (type of problem, estimated time to repair, contractor ticket number) to the NIAID Point of Contact (POC to be identified in the Contract). b. Contractor must be able to supply in-field personnel for on-site support. c. Contractor must have a trouble ticketing system with the ability to issue ticket numbers per trouble incident, track status, outage duration and incident priority. d. Contractor must provide a problem escalation procedure as part of the Contract. The escalation procedure must identify who should be contacted, the order the contact should occur, and what additional Contractor resources will be added at each escalation stage of the problem. The Contractor must be willing to provide the names and telephone numbers of all contacts. e. NIAID and the Contractor shall agree to a regularly scheduled maintenance window and all scheduled and routine maintenance shall be conducted during that maintenance window if requested by the contractor. The Contractor must submit all scheduled and routine maintenance requests to NIAID 30 (thirty) days prior to the date of maintenance and testing. The contractor shall not perform service effecting scheduled maintenance without prior written assent by the NIAID point of contact. f. Emergency Maintenance i. The Contractor must notify the NIAID POC immediately if emergency maintenance or testing is going to occur that could potentially disrupt NIAID network traffic. ii. Contractor must maintain a repair log listing the date of the repair occurrence, problem found, action taken to resolve the problem, and the total out-of-service time. Only issues affecting NIAID's service need be logged. g. The vendor may not change the route path unless it is a temporary requirement to restore service or, with the government's agreement, reduces total the total latency budget. h. The Contractor must provide full service within no more than 45 days of award. Shorter delivery time will be considered in determination of Best Value to the Government for award. This Total Installation time must be included in your response. i. Request handoff of the optical wave service from ZAYO and extend that service from the Chicago site to the NIAID collocation site in Ashburn, Virginia. Technical Requirements a. The wave service must be capable of 10Gigabits per wave at a minimum, but scalable to 100Gigabits by January 1st, 2013, and configurable as a LAN PHY, WAN PHY, or SONET per wave at NIAID discretion. b. Service handoffs shall be available in 850nm, 1310nm or 1550nm wavelengths per wave as directed by NIAID. c. The contractor will provide optical amplification, regeneration and add/drop sites, and will procure, install and maintain all equipment that performs the service. NIAID facilities will originate the optical signal at both ends. d. The one way latencies of all Segments must be at or below.001 milliseconds per mile. e. (The amendment of this solicitation has taken this requirement out). f. The required availability for each service provided is 99.9 percent, or no more than 8 hours non-availability per year. g. The total point-to-point latency must not exceed 30 miliseconds. Offerors must submit a Not to Exceed (NTE) numerical value for total point-to-point latency in milliseconds. Performance Requirements The required availability for each service provided is 99.9 percent, or no more than 8.76 hours non-availability per year. PWS Section Performance Standard Acceptable QualityLevel Surveillance Method X.X Service Availability 99.9 % Continuous Monitoring Planning a. Contractor will be responsible for the acquisition of any required city, county, or state permits. Installation a. Contractor is responsible for all equipment acquisition, installation and logistics coordination. b. Installation at the Ashburn facility in Virginia should be coordinated between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., EST, Monday through Friday. c. NIAID, or a designated third-party, at its discretion, will perform acceptance testing before the network installation will be considered "complete". Operations Contractor is responsible for all operational activities required for maintenance of service at or above the defined AQL for the duration of the contract following government testing and acceptance of the service. Qualifications Offerors shall document their organization's in-depth knowledge of commercial telecom services, technologies and infrastructure. Offerors must demonstrate experience in IT telecommunications delivery service of 10GB on a national level, including length of time offeror has provided this level of service. Offerors must provide documented evidence that both the organization and proposed key personnel can successfully deliver and maintain this service Offerors will provide maps of major metropolitan areas served by fiber optic infrastructure within the 48 continental Unites States. Offerors will provide Not to Exceed round trip latency specifications for the between Ashburn (VA) and Chicago (IL). Latency undermines the value of high performance telecom networks, therefore lower total latency between termination points will be considered in the determination of Best Value to the Government. Vendors must document proactive monitoring of their networks at both physical and logical layer, and provide a central, internet based facility for customers to check operational status. If an offeror has developed unique innovation in the field of high speed telecommunication services over the past 5 years, please include this information. It may be considered in a best value determination. Interested Offerors must submit any questions concerning the solicitation at the earliest time possible to enable the Buyer to respond. Questions not received within a reasonable time prior to the close of the solicitation may not be considered. Please submit questions to Barbara Horrell (contact information appears below). The following FAR provisions and clauses apply to this acquisition: (B)(1) By submission of an offer, the offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall be registered in the CCR database prior to award, during performance, and through final payment of any contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting from this solicitation; 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items; 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items. Evaluation-Commercial Items (Jan 1999) (a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: 1) Technical capability of the item/service offered to meet the Government requirement. 2) Time from award to completed installation and successful testing 3)Price. 4)Documentation of offeror's experience in offering telecom service on a national level and between major metropolitan areas. 5) Offeror's innovation in telecom over the past 5 years. FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions Commercial Items; FAR 52-212.5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items. By submission of an offer, the offeror acknowledges the requirement that a prospective awardee shall have posted their FAR 52.212-3 Offerors Representations and Certifications Commercial Items at website http://orca.bpn.gov. Offers may be mailed to Barbara Horrell at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, 903 S. 4th Street, Hamilton, Mt 59840, faxed to the POC indicated above at fax - 406-363-9288, or e-mailed at horrellb@niaid.nih.gov. Offers must be submitted not later than 4:30 PM (MDST) 05/10/2012. Copies of the above-referenced clauses are available from http://www.arnet.gov/far/current/html/52_000_107.html or upon request, either by telephone or fax. All responsible sources may submit an offer that will be considered by this Agency. This solicitation will now close on 5/10/2012. Please submit offers to the above contact.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 43830 Devin Shafron Drive, Ashburn, Virginia, 20147, United States
- Zip Code: 20147
- Zip Code: 20147
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