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60 -- FIBER OPTIC CABLE SOL F34608-95-R0020 DUE 100695 POC Contact: Contract Specialist: Ssgt Kevin Koepke (405) 734-9642 or Contracting Officer: Paula K. Maggard. Fiber optic cable, armored, single mode, for outside plant applications, must meet rea-90 requirements. Includes thermo-plastic buffer tubes for transportation of fibers at splices, each buffer tube shall contain 12 fibers, 48 fibers total. Central strength member shall be non-metallic, unless otherwise addressed by the cable design. Additional fillers will be provided to maintain the symmetry of the core, optical parameters are as follows: mfd at 1310nm: 8 to 10.3 um, maximum attenuation at 1310/1550 nm: 0.5/0.3 db/km, max dispersion (1285-1330 nm): 9.5 ps/km, zero dispersion wavelength: 1311 +/- 11 nm, max slope at zero dispersion wavelength, 0.092 ps/nm*km, cladding diameter: 125 +/- 2 um, cutoff wavelength of cabled fiber shall be less than 1250 nm, nominal weight: 215 +/- 15 kg/km, max cable od 14.4 mm, min. tensile strength of 600 lbs(2700nw) Siecor P/N: 48R15-13101-20 or Sumitomo P/N: SE3GA048-B or equal--Stock No 6015P0039953101--Qty 30000 MR--All responsible sources may submit a bid, which shall be considered. Sources responding to this synopsis must indicate, in writing, whether they are large or small, disadvantaged or women-owned business. Only companies who provide all required information will receive a copy of this solicitation. For this synopsis, a concern will be considered small if its number of employees does not exceed 1000. No telephone requests. Only written requests received directly from requester are acceptable. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The Ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals or in the source selection process. Interested parties are invited to call Colonel Claude E. Messamore, Jr. at (617) 377-5106. The Ombudsman should only be contacted with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or the contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. Foreign participation is permitted. (0228)

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