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D -- MULTI-VENDOR PROVISION OF VALUE ADDED DATA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SERVICES OVER G-MAN SONET Due 121396. Contact Mary Stedman, Contract Specialist, (202) 205-3725. This notice announces the closing date for the following offering. The General Services Administration (GSA) has implemented G-MAN, which is a Government Metropolitan Area Network comprised of a transport system based upon SONET bi-directional line switched OC-48 ring technology. G-MAN now forms the transport system that supports GSA's Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS). GSA is making this SONET Network available without cost to vendors who have a desire and the capability to deliver competitively priced Access Arrangements and Value Added Network services to Government authorized users in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. GSA is offering use of its SONET ring under terms of a standard Memorandum of Agreement between the Government and qualified vendors. Interested vendors must demonstrate to GSA the financial, technical, management, marketing, provisioning, and billing capabilities of their companies to qualify for use of G-MAN. Vendors must also provide to GSA a copy of their existing Equal Access Agreement with Bell Atlantic - Washington, D.C., Inc. to be able to connect through the Bell Atlantic Network to GSA's private SONET Network. Vendors shall be solely responsible for any costs (e.g., Equal Access Tariff fees) associated with the connection through the Bell Atlantic tariffed access to G-MAN. GSA is seeking qualified vendors who can provide, at competitive rates, high speed, flexible, point-to-point or Value Added Network services such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay, Internet Access, and other current and emerging transport system software for Voice, Data, Image, and Video applications. Vendors may contact Contract Specialist, Mary Stedman, at (202)205-3725 or FAX Number (202)708-6796 for an information packet. Once the vendor completes and submits the required information, and GSA evaluates and approves the vendor, a Memorandum of Agreement will be executed and the vendor can begin providing services via G-MAN to Government authorized users. The closing date for this offer is December 13, 1996. (317)

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