Bureau of Reclamation, Acquisition Operations Branch, Code D-7813, Denver Federal Center, PO Box 25007, Denver CO 80225

S -- SERVICES FOR INSTALLATION, REMOVAL, AND MAINTENANCE OF DATA AND VOICE CABLING SOL 1425-5-SP-81-20280 POC Contracting Officer Kent Charles 303/236-8040 extension 243 The Bureau of Reclamation, Denver Technical Center has a requirement for a contractor to provide installation, removal, maintenance of data and voice wiring and maintenance of telephone equipment. The work includes fiber optic cabling maintenance and installation, programming key systems, voice mail, and telephone sets, technical training, and technical assistance for workers situated in buildings 67, 53, 41 and 56 on the Denver Federal Center, as well as a building near the Federal Center on Parfet Street. The majority of the work will be performed within building 67, a 14-floor office building. The period of performance will be from October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996 with the option for the Government to renew yearly for four (4) additional years. In every instance, telephone service is delivered via individual lines to each building by a third party and terminated on a main distribution frame (MDF). The MDF becomes the demarcation point between the third party telephone service provider and the services to be provided under this contract. The contractor shall be responsible for providing service, upon demand, between the MDF and each customer location. This may require the installation of conduit, Intermediate Distribution Frame(s) (IDF), cross- connect panels, wiring blocks, multi-pair cables, fiber optic cabling, key system installation and programming, voice mail installation and programming, and termination devices. The Contractor shall also provide data network service at some or all of the locations identified above. These services shall support Local Area Networks (LAN's) and a Wide Area Network (WAN), as well as a certain number of stand-alone modems/DSU's with data transmission speeds ranging from 1200 to 56K baud. The Contractor's responsibility will include providing the communications medium between third-party provided devices. For example, from a personal computer at a user location onward through a data IDF, to a file server located on the same or a different floor. The Contractor would be responsible for providing the cable, connectors, jacks, terminal blocks, conduit and labor to deliver the signals between the end points, as well as to provide necessary circuit testing and documentation. This contract also requires extensive work in key system programming, voice mail programming, technical training on those systems and furnishing upgrades to both systems when upgrade software is released. This procurement is being conducted under an agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy that strives to improve communications between Government and industry through all phases of the acquisition cycle. In an effort to obtain adequate vendor feedback on this procurement, a presolicitation meeting will be held on March 2, 1995 at the US Bureau of Reclamation, Building 67, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 starting at 1:30PM local time in the RIO GRAND Conference Room. Please call Ms. Anne Smith at 303-236-8040 extension 221 to confirm your attendance. Copies of the draft requirement and evaluation criteria will be available for review and comment by any vendor. It is Reclamation's intention that vendors assist us in finding the best method to describe our requirement and the most efficient method to procure these services. SIC Code is 1731. A firm is considered small for this procurement if its annual average gross revenue for the past 3 years is $7.0 million or less. See Numbered Note 1. (0039)

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