Drug Enforcement Administration, Room W-5138, 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202

58 -- INTERCEPT EQUIPMENT FOR VARIOUS WIRELINE AND WIRELESS MEDIA AND NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS SOL DEA-97-R-0005 DUE 110896 POC Jeff Saylor, Contract Specialist, (202) 307-4366 Michele T. Glavich, Contracting Officer. The U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is seeking to identify a substantial group of manufacturers, developers and vendors who can provide intercept equipment for wireline and wireless communications. The equipment to be ordered must intercept communications from various media and networks as allowed by law. Once intercepted, the dial digits and contents (audio, data, etc.) must be decoded and passed on too a collection point to be stored as evidence on each subject of a court-ordered intercept. In additon, the information must be put into formats acceptable to DEA and the courts. Providers of this equipment are asked to submit capability information enabling DEA to construct a list authorized vendors. Because of the nature of this requirement, potential offerors must demonstrate that they have developed wireline or wireless intercept equipment in the past and have a likelihood of maintaining state of the art intercept equipment in the future. It is intended that contracts will be designed to provide an expeditious way of ordeing equipment in order to support DEA domestic and foreign offices, as well as other domestic and foreign government agencies and law enforcement organizations. Interested parites are not entitled to receive bid and preparation costs as a result of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 25. (0292)

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