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

S -- DISTRIBUTED CABLE TELEVISION (CATV) SYSTEM DUE 073196 POC Rita Carter Tel: 410-965-8789 The Social Security Administration is seeking sources capable of providing for the design, development, furnishing of equipment and installation of a distributed cable television system for the SSA Headquarters Woodlawn Complex in Baltimore County by an authorized cable television systems provider. The CATV provider shall be authorized to access public and private utility systems to distribute the signal to all buildings located on the SSA campus in Woodlawn (12 buildings). The CATV provider shall have experience in the installation of systems of similar design and size and meet or exceed FCC Regulations for cable systems. The CATV provider shall provide 24 hour/365 days per year emergency service response for all aspects of the system. The CATV provider shall be responsible for all materials, equipment, accessories and supplementary equipment as well as basic cable programming for a complete and operational system. The CATV provider shall furnish and install all trunk and feeder cable to distribute the signal and furnish all drop cabling. SSA will install all low voltage drop cabling, subscriber outlets and televisions. The CATV provider shall convey all information to SSA for the proper implementation by SSA of the necessary electrical, mechanical, structural, technical and architectural components required for successful system installation and operation by the CATV vendor. The CATV provider shall be capable of meeting the operational parameters of the system which shall consist of the following: (1) distribute a minimum of 55 network/local broadcast stations/satellite broadcast signals from an off-site headend combining network to a minimum of 550 outlet locations throughout the SSA campus (2) provide equipment to interface through reinsertion a minimum of 12 SSA locally originated signals and programming into the cable system, including but not limited to SSA's Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) network fiber optic transmission links as well as the future SSA on-campus television production studio (3) provide future on-line services capable of interactive 2-way communication within and outside of SSA (4) provide all future tap connections in compliance with FCC cable system regulations as part of an ongoing service. The distributed cable system shall be capable of expanding to 75 channels as well as provide the following broadcast signals as part of the basic 55 channel programming lineup (CNN, CNN Headlines, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, CNBC). It is SSA's intent to eliminate the need for satellite dishes/receiving systems and related costly subscription rates at the SSA complex through the implementation of CATV for the distribution of SSA locally originated signals and programming. This is not a request for proposals and the Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited or received. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation of the source data received, but sources deemed qualified will be solicited when the request for proposal is issued. Any interested organization must submit appropriate data in duplicate within fifteen (15) days of the date of this announcement. Requests for the solicitation will not be acknowledged. (0198)

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