Contracting Officer 90C, Building 41, VA Medical Center, 2200 Ft Roots Dr., North Little Rock, AR 72114.

59 -- RADIO PAGING SYSTEM SOL 598-54-96 DUE 080196 POC Djuna Roberts, Contracting Officer, 501-370-6671 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR subpart 12.6, as supplemented with the additional information included in this notice. This annoucement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. This acquisition is unrestricted. Description of requirements: This medical center has two physically seperate locations. The Little Rock Division and approx. 2.5 miles northeast, the North Little Rock Division. The Radio Paging System will be a dual transmitter, simulcast system with a primary paging frequecy of 164.175 MHz. The transmitters will be linked via a UHF radio channel operating in the Gov. spectrum range of 406.000 to 420.000 MHz. This system shall be designed, engineered, furnished, delivered, installed and tested. The medical center will provide the System's link transmitter frequency authorization and the contractor shall not proceed with the ordering of radio transmitting equipment until the link frequency has been provided to the medical center, however, system physical installation may proceed prior to receipt of authorization. The system shall fully support end user paging equipment currently in use. This equipment is composed of: Motorola Spirit and Pageboy using 2-tone sequential. Motorola Bravo using Golay sequential code, and Motorola Keynote using 2-tone sequential. There are a combined total of approximately 950 pagers in use. Copies of detailed specifications can be obtained from the contracting officer. Technical Proposal format: provide three identical copies of the technical proposal in loose leaf binders (with floppy disk sleeves for completely labeled floppies). Submittal in electronic format is acceptable. Textural material must be submitted on a 3.5'' (DOS v.6.22, Windows 3.11 or Macintosh v.7.1 compatable) floppy disk in Microsoft Word and all required drawings in AutoCad V.11. Technical proposal shall be composed as follows: Section A. Title page (VA Medical Center, solicitation number, date of proposal, contractor' name, address, telephone and fax numbers; Section B: Narrative Description of how the proposed system is expected to be installed and will operate. An equipment narrative description extract from OEM technial literature is not acceptable in this section; Section C: Technical Literature (OEM specifications detailing the mechanical, electrical and technical characterisitics of each item of equipment to be furnished identified by line item to the contractor's furnished equipment list); Section D: Block diagrams and drawings indicating how the system is to be installed and interconnected; Section E: Engineering Drawing; Section E: RF Coverage Prediction; Section G: Contractor furnished equipment list; Section H: Test Equipment List. FOB: Destination. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items applies. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Proposed Design/Equipment, Past Performance, Quality and scope of training plan, location of service facility, price. All evaluation factors when combined are significantly more important than price. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with its offer. FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. The following clauses in paragraph (b) are checked as applicable: (1),(2),(3-11)., (0193)

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