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70 -- TELECHOICE) TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACQUISITION SYSTEM DUE 043096 POC Contracting Officer, Mr. James Shumate, (202)565-9608, Additional Contact, Mr. Kelly Edwards, (202)565-9585 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) intends to issue a request for proposal (RFP) to acquire the Telecommunications Acquisition System for VA (TeleChoice). The VA TeleChoice RFP will seek a commercial partner with nationwide organizational telecommunication acquisition management and support resources. Teaming alliances will be encouraged to provide a broad range of telecommunications installation, integration, product support, and facility preparation services. TeleChoice provide a closed-loop acquisition system with support elements continually reviewed and contract performance continually evaluated. TeleChoice will be open for use by local VA (field) offices nationwide. Local clients will use TeleChoice to shorten acquisition time and the processes involved with field office acquisition of telephone switch system, associated premise equipment, and services for various sized facilities. The TeleChoice system will be designed to reduce risks for VA and the Contractor and enable local managers to develop predicatable installation schedules and budgeted costs. TeleChoice will combine tasks of facility preparation, cabling and installation, telephone switch integration, and maintenance. Technologies will include: telephone switch installation and integration, automated call distribution, interactive voice recognition, outdialing, modem pooling, voice mail, and auto-call attendant features. A draft RFC will be posted April 5, 1996, to VA Vendor Bulletin Board (1-800-SELL-2-VA for non-metropolitan Washington DC callers and 202-565-6971 for Washington DC metropolitan Washington DC callers). Potential offerors are invited to unzip the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) RFC for review and/or printing. The RFP is read-only file and no printed copies will be available. VA welcomes comments and recommendations on a how to improve the draft RFC for a forthcoming RFP for appropriate industry response. Specific questions have been posed to industry in the ready-me file accompanying the RFC. Potential offers are requested to respond to these contracts and business related issues targeted to improve the final RFP. Formal presentations by potential offerors addressing how their firm could meet the national requirements of TeleChoice will be allowed. For more inforamtion and to schedule an appointment please call Mr. Kelly Edwards at 202-565-9585. The final release of the RFP will be via VA Vendor Bulletin Board or other Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange media. A separate CBD announcement will be published regarding the release of the final RFP. The final RFP will not be released prior to May 1, 1996. Any comments or questions regarding this announcement should be referred to James Shumate, Contracting Officer at 202-565-9608 or faxed to 202-565-9611. (0093)

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