SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Activation and Lease of Existing Zayo Dark Fiber
- Notice Date
- 7/15/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 517110
— Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- SB1341-15-RQ-0680
- Point of Contact
- Richard Kim, Phone: 3019756219
- E-Mail Address
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Richard.kim@nist.gov
(Richard.kim@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ANNOUNCEMENT: SPECIAL NOTICE CLASSIFICATION CODE: D - Automatic Data Processing and Telecommunications Services SUBJECT: Notice of Intent to Sole Source, Activation and Lease of Existing Zayo Dark Fiber SOLICITATION NUMBER: SB1341-15-RQ-0680 CONTACT POINTS: RICHARD KIM, Contract Specialist (301) 975-6219; KEITH BUBAR, Contracting Officer (301) 975-8329 DESCRIPTION: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acquisition Management Division, on behalf of the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM), intends to negotiate directly with Zayo Group, LLC (Zayo), on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements," to activate and test two (2) additional strands of the existing Zayo dark fiber cable located in the NIST Gaithersburg campus Central Computing Facility (CCF). The purpose of the fiber is to establish a connection to the Equinix Cloud Exchange Servers for NIST's contract with Amazon Web Services. NIST requires a point-to-point single mode dark fiber pair connection from the NIST Gaithersburg, MD campus to Equinix in Ashburn, VA via the existing Zayo dark fiber lateral terminated in an existing location at the NIST Gaithersburg campus. The dark fiber connection shall carry a 1 Gigabit Ethernet service. Upon completion of installation and testing of the circuit, provide an operational single mode dark fiber pair link between NIST and Equinix to support a 1 Gigabit Ethernet retransmission along the northern route for a 3 year lease. ***** Sole Source Justification is based on the following: NIST currently has a Zayo fiber infrastructure installed in the NIST data center and an existing contract with Zayo Group, LLC (SB1341-14-SE-0239) to provide NIST with an ultra-high bandwidth and high performance dark fiber access to research organizations in the Washington D.C. area. The current strands are for research currently conducted with the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). NIST currently has a contract with Smartronix, Inc. (SB1341-14-SE-0423) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Commercial Cloud Service. NIST is currently connecting to AWS through NIST's internet connections. NIST requires a higher speed connection to AWS and is planning a point-to-point, dark fiber network connection to Equinix Cloud Exchange Servers which provide direct connections to AWS and others. Zayo is currently the only dark fiber provider with infrastructure at NIST. This contract would activate (2) additional strands of fiber of the existing Zayo dark fiber infrastructure strands currently terminated in the NIST data center and provide an operational circuit for one (1) gigabit Ethernet service with 24/7 network support, 2-hour onsite response and 4-hour post-arrival repair for link failures. *****The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 517110 - Wired Telecommunications Carriers. Any prospective contractor must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) in order to be eligible for award. Information concerning SAM registered requirements may be viewed via the Internet at http://sam.gov. Interested parties that believe they could satisfy the requirements listed above for NIST may clearly and unambiguously identify their capability to do so in writing on or before the response date for this notice. This notice of intent is not a solicitation. Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Richard Kim at Richard.kim@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at Richard.kim@nist.gov no later than July 24 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
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