Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696

58 -- PURCHASE AND MAINTENANCE OF FUGITSU 9600 TELEPHONE SYSTEM DUE 159696 POC Edwin G. Casswell Tel: 410-965-9490 Fax: 410-965-9560 The SSA is seeking sources to provide a comprehensive engineering, installation and maintenance services contract at SSA's consolidated processing facilities at the Mid-America Program Service Center (MAMPSC) located in Kansas City, MO, and the Great Lakes Program Service Center (GLPSC) located at the Harold Washington Social Security Center (HWSSC) in Chicago, IL. The MAMPSC has fifteen (15) Fujitsu model F9600VS digital telecommunications systems and peripheral telecommunications related equipment connected to fifteen (15) Centigram Communications VoiceMemo II Model 100 voice mail & automated attendant systems. The GLPSC has ten (10) Fujitsu model F9600VS digital telecommunications systems and peripheral telecommunications related equipment connected to ten (10) Centigram Communications VoiceMemo II Model 100 voice mail & automated attendant systems. The multiple system arrangements are distributed throughout each PSC facility and currently provide service to approximately 1500 users at each location with growth capacity to 2000+ users. SSA requires the design, engineering, installion, testing, phased cutover and maintenance of all hardware, software and firmware that is required to consolidate the multiple Fujitsu F9600VS telecommunications at each PSC into one large Fujitsu F9600 series telecommunications system for each location that has the capacity to provide the quantities required at cutover and projected station and line growth requirements over the life of the contract. The contract must permit the retention of SSA's capital investment in station and trunk circuit cards and digital telephone apparatus at each PSC location. The contract will require the design, engineering, installation, testing, phased cutover and maintenance of all hardware, software and firmware that is required to either consolidate or to reuse the multiple Centigram Voice Memo II Model 100 voice processing systems at each PSC location that has the capacity to provide the quantities required at cutover and future mailbox and access traffic growth requirements over the life of the contract. The contractor will be required to provide a full time (8 hours per day - 40 hours per week) on-site (resident) Customer Support Engineer (CSE) at each PSC location, skilled in project management, telecommunication industry standards and practices and who has been technically certified by the respective equipment manufacturers to perform engineering, installation and maintenance services on all equipment cited in this publication and in accordance with SSA specifications. In addition, the contract will include ongoing engineering, equipment, labor, wiring, installation, maintenance with on-site spare parts, documentation and training for all required system and station hardware/software/firmware growth at each PSC location over the term of the contract. The initial fixed price contract will be a competitive acquisition for one year with options for an additional six years. Organizations are invited to submit complete information on geographic area service coverage, competency of technical personnel, project management capabilities, Fujitsu F9600 technical training and certification programs, Fujitsu F9600 experience, customer references and any relative descriptive literature in discussing such capabilities. The responses must clearly state the ability to provide the equipment and services as described. No cost or pricing data is required or requested. This is not a request for proposal and the Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited or received. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the internal Government evaluation of the source data received. Any interested organization must submit appropriate data in duplicate within 15 days of the date of this announcement. See note #22. (0100)

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