SOLICITATION NOTICE
60 -- Optical Wave Transport Service
- Notice Date
- 4/25/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- 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-5-13012
- Archive Date
- 5/25/2013
- Point of Contact
- Tamara K. McDermott, Phone: 4063757487, Lynda Kieres, Phone: 4063639210
- E-Mail Address
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tamara.mcdermott@nih.gov, lkieres@niaid.nih.gov
(tamara.mcdermott@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, in conjunction with FAR 13.5, 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-5-13012. The solicitation documents and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-66 effective 04/01/2013. 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 517110 and the small business size is 1500 employees. The Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) seeks Optical Wave Transport Service (OWTS) to extend existing commercial carrier DWDM service contracted to ZAYO from Chicago, IL to Ashburn, VA. The period of performance of this contract will consist of one (1) twelve month base period and four (4) twelve month option years and is estimated to begin 6/27/2013 through 6/26/2014, including the Government option to extend as per FAR 52.217-9. This decision to extend will be made by the Government. If the Government exercises an option, a written notice will be send to the Contractor sixty (60) days before the end of the existing contract period of performance. 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 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, Virginia 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-Level3 Telecommunications facility at: 350 East Cermak Road 5 th 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 of performance will consist of one (1) twelve month base period and four (4) twelve month option years and is estimated to begin 6/27/2013 through 6/26/2014 and acceptable service must be verified by NIAID testing prior to acceptance. 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 quotes 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- hour (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. Contractor planned maintenance events effecting service provided to NIAID should be communicated in writing to the NIAID Point of Contact (POC) at least four weeks in advance of the maintenance event(s). 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. •a 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, uninterrupted service before 6/27/2013 to preclude no loss of service. 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 1, 2014, and configurable as a LAN PHY, WAN PHY, or SONET per wave at NIAID discretion. b. Service handoffs shall be available in 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 required availability to each service provided is 99.9 percent, or no more than 8 hours non-availability per year. e. The total point-to-point latency in either direction must not exceed 13 milliseconds. Offerors must submit a Not to Exceed (NTE) numerical value for total point-to-point latency in milliseconds. Performance Requirements Barring circumstances which are beyond control, such as acts of terrorism, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods, 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 Quality Level (AQL) 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 service 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 Tamara McDermott (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; 52.212-1Instructions to Offerors Commercial Items (Feb 2012); 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 (Feb 2012); FAR 52-212.5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Commercial Items (Jan 2013). The additional clauses cited within this clause are applicable: 52.203-6 + Alt I, 52.204-10, 52.219-4, 52.219-8, 52.222-3, 52.222-19, 52.222-21, 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.222-37, 52.222-40, 52.223-18, 52.225-13, 52.232-33 and 52.222-53. FAR 52.217-5 Evaluation of Options (Jul 1990); FAR 52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Mar 2000). HHSAR 352.222-70 Contractor Cooperation in Equal Employment Opportunity Investigations (Jan 2010). 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 https://www.sam.gov. Offers may be mailed to Tamara McDermott 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 tamara.mcdermott@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.acquisition.gov/far and http://www.hhs.gov/policies/hhsar/ 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 close on 5/10/2012. Please submit offers to the above contact at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana. Please DO NOT submit offers to the Contracting Office in Bethesda, Maryland. Contracting Office Address: 10401 Fernwood Drive, Suite 2NE70, MSC 4811 Bethesda, Maryland 20817 Place of Performance: 43830 Devin Shafron Drive Ashburn, Virginia 20147 United States Primary Point of Contact: Tamara McDermott Contract Specialist tamara.mcdermott@nih.gov Phone: 406-375-7487 Fax: 406-363-9288 Secondary Point of Contact: Lynda Kieres, Contracting Officer lkieres@niaid.nih.gov Phone: 406-363-9210 Fax: 406-363-9288
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Chicago-Level3 Telecommunications facility at:, 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, United States
- Zip Code: 20147
- Zip Code: 20147
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