Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, Building 504, Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5040

Y -- EXTENSION TO THE FIBER OPTIC DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, NAVAL AIR STATION, PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND 20670-5040 Sol. N62477-94-R-3063. POC: Procurement Technician, Karl Hanson, 301-826-3854, Contracting Officer, Don Mumbert. The intent is to procure by informal source selection procedures, the provision and installation of tube cable capable of accepting fiber optics. This requirement is to provide and secure extensions to the fiber cable plant and necessary incidental work that includes, but is not limited to, trenching, excavating, and backfill, complete and ready for the installation of a fiber optic cable backbone in various locations around the Naval Air Station. The work includes providing and installing manholes, pedestal enclosures, direct burial tube cable, tube cable in conduit, splice cases, network building services entrances, junction boxes, underground rigid metallic conduit, underground polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduit, trenching, jack and boring, the replacement of any road markings that need to be on the road when making new patch with asphalt or cement, and incidental related work. This requirement shall be awarded as an Indefinite-Delivery Quantity type of contract using competitive procedures. The estimated cost of construction is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The minimum guarantee will be $500,000.00. The successful offeror will be selected by informal competitive negotiation. Offerors will be evaluated on price and other non-price (Technical/Management) related criteria. Technical/Management factors are equal in importance to price considerations. A pre-proposal conference is anticipated and will be identified in a forthcoming synopsis. Do not call for additional technical information. Issuance of the Request for Proposal is tentatively scheduled for early March of this year. THERE WILL BE A $15.00 NON-REFUNDABLE FEE FOR THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATION/RFP. Checks should be made payable to the Treasurer of the United States of America. Mail or deliver your request for receiving plans and specifications when they become available to ROICC, Building 504, Navl Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5504, Attn: Karl Hanson. Specific dates identifying the issuance of the Request for Proposal and the Pre-proposal Conference shall be identified in a forthcoming synopsis. Telephone and facsimile requests will not be honored. (023)

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