DISA/DITCO/PAD, 5111 Leesburg Pike, Room 9178, Falls Church, VA 22041

D -- DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS NETWORK TRANSMISSION SERVICES - PACIFIC (DTS - P) SOL DCA200-97-R-0012 POC Contact: Peter G. Smingler, Contracting Officer, 703-681-1235 The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) hereby issues a Sources Sought DRAFT Request For Proposal regarding transmission services to support Defense Information Systems Network users within the Pacific Area Of Responsibility (AOR) which currently includes, but is not limited to: Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Korea, Australia, Wake Island, Diego Garcia, Okinawa, Singapore, Johnson Island, Kwajalein, Philippines, and Japan. The DTS - P will also provideinter-operable transmission from the Pacific AOR to other areas including the Continental United States (CONUS), Europe and Southwest Asia. The transmission services shall support digital voice, data and video services along with signal encryption capabilities between points designated by the Government. The transmission requirements are for dedicated bandwidth leased services comprised of full duplex (FD) or half duplex (HD) transmission links with bandwidth ranging from T-1 through OC-48 (or higher if commercially available during the life of the contract) between any two service delivery points (inter-country andintra-country) within the service region. The system shall be designed with an open architecture allowing for the incorporation of evolutionary or new commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) open-systems-standards based technologies and media capabilities. The Contractor shall be responsible for the engineering, acquisition, installation, test, operation and maintenance of all communication facilities and equipment necessary to provide the specified services. The proposed contract will be a Fixed-Price Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Delivery Order type contract. The proposed period of performance will be a one year base period and nine one year option periods. The Government intends to issue the DTS-P Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) to industry for comments, including rough-order-of-magnitude pricing, on or about 1 October 1996. All interested vendors must submit a written request for a copyof the Draft RFP to: DISA/PAD; 5111 Leesburg Pike, Room 9178, Falls Church, VA 22041-3205. Neither facsimile or telephonic requests will be accepted. Writtenrequests SHALL include the Company Name, Street Address, City, State, NINE-DigitZip Code, Point of Contact (POC), POC Telephone and facsimile numbers, Company Size and Status. If the company address includes a post office box, the complete street address must also be provided. Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 4899 will be used for determining company size status. The point of contact for technical issues concerning this announcement is Major Ronald Wagers, DISA/D214 at (703) 681-0916, Fax (703) 681-0345. The point of contact for contractual issues is Mr. Peter G. Smingler, Contracting Officer, DISA/PAD at (703) 681-1235, Fax (703) 681-0342. It is requested that an original and 10 paper copies plusone (1) 3.25'' high density disk using Word Perfect 6.1 be provided. Proprietaryinformation should be identified as such. Responses should be mailed, no later than 15 November 1996, to: DISA/PAD; 5111 Leesburg Pike, Room 9178; Falls Church, VA 22041-3205. Sources submitting a white paper who are interested in also making a presentation between 2 December 1996 and 6 December 1996 may arrange to do so by contacting Major Ronald Wagers, DISA/D214 at (703) 681-0916,Fax (703) 681-0345. (0257)

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