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Y -- EXTENSION TO THE FIBER OPTIC DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, NAVAL AIR STATION, PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND 20670-5504 Sol N62477-95-B-3044. POC Procurement Technician, Anna Taylor, 301-342-3854, Contract Specialist, Don Mumbert. The intent is to procure by informal source selection procedures, the provision and installation of tube cable capable of accepting air blown 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 an air-blown fiber optic cable backbone in various locations around the Naval Air Station. The work includes providing an 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. Sumitoma Electronic Industries (SEI) is the only known (to date) manufacturer of air-blown fiber optic technology. The successful bidder must be capable of installing SEI manufactured tube cable capable of accepting air-blown fiber optic strands. The successful bidder must be SEI certified and provide certificate of training by SEI as an acceptable installer at the time of bid opening and as part of the bid documents. 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 is anticipated to be $600,000.00. This requirement shall be awarded to the least-cost technically qualified bidder. Do not call for additional technical information. Issuance of the Invitation for Bid is tentatively scheduled for late May of this year. There will be a $15.00 Non-Refundable Fee For The Plans and Specification/IFB. 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, Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5504, Attn: Anna Taylor. Specific dates identifying the issuance of the Invitation for Bid shall be identified in a forthcoming synopsis. Telephone and facsimile requests will not be honored. (116)

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