National Park Service, Golden Gate National Receration Area, Contracting Office, Building 201, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 94123

M -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS (TELEPHONE) SYSTEM SOL 1443RP-8140-96-014 DUE 013197 POC Point of Contact-Linda Wong, Contract Specialist, 415-556-2488 CORRECTION -- The original synopsis was published April 4, 1996 and is modified as follows: The National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA, has identified a requirement to procure services of a qualified firm to operate and maintain a telecommunications/telephone system principally located at the Presidio of San Francisco. Other areas of Golden Gate NRA, such as, but not limited to, East Fort Baker, Fort Cronkhite, Fort Barry, Fort Mason, and Fort Point, may be included in the covered areas subject to the terms of the Statement of Work, at the discretion of Golden Gate NRA. It is anticipated that contract award shall be for a base period and four (4) 1-year options, exercisable at the sole discretion of Golden Gate NRA, subject to availability of funds. The base period shall be from date of contract award through September 30, 1997. The stated purpose of this operation and maintenance service contract shall be to provide all on-site resources including staffing and equipment necessary to operate the telecommunications/telephone system, including but not limited to a Business Office with service desk, voice mail and billing system; a switching system, an outside plant, inside plant and transmission equipment. The successful offeror shall be required to provide routine and non-routine, emergency maintenance as necessary to assure continuation of uninterrupted service to serviced clients. Elements to be maintained and operated include, but are not limited to switching system equipped with AT&T 5ESS version 9.2 switch and associated optical remote switching modules, outside cable plant including fiber optic and metallic cabling, inside cable plant and installation services including cabling, LAN, instrument and equipment installation and repair, and transmission equipment infrastructure including SONET and SLC2000 systems. The following criteria will be used in the evaluation of proposals: (1) Professional qualifications of the project site manager and proposed staff, including experience in the telecommunications field; (2) Documentation of professional certification requirements for staff as set forth in the Statement of Work; (3) Specialized and recent experience of the firm including expertise with projects similar in scope and technical requirements; (4) Capacity to manage and staff multiple telephone system projects; (5) Past performance on telephone operations and maintenance projects with government agencies and private industry in terms of cost control, customer service, quality of engineering and technical work, in conformance with performance standards, service response time, and restoral time set forth in the Statement of Work; (6) Demonstrated capability of drafting standard operating procedures and technical reports with reference to sample operating procedures for a telecom business office and switching system, and workmanship manuals to be submitted as an appendix to the proposal; (7) Demonstration of financial capability necessary to staff and perform a project of this scope; and (8) local business or telephone operations center within 100 miles of the Telecommunications/Telephone Center, Building 67, Presidio of San Francisco, Golden Gate NRA. The applicable SIC Code is 8744. This solicitation is an unrestricted procurement inviting full and open competition. The National Park Service, Golden Gate NRA, welcomes and encourages small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned business concerns to participate. Solicitation documents will be available o/a 12/31/96. There is a non-refundable fee for the solicitation. Requests for the solicitation MUST be submitted in writing to the address contained herein. All interested firms will be notified of the non-refundable fee which will be established at a later date. The firms who responded to the original synopsis need not resubmit their interest. Subcontracting plans may be required from all large business concerns with their initial offers which will identify percentage goals for using small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned business concerns. THE GOVERNMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THIS SOLICITATION, EITHER BEFORE OR AFTER THE RFP CLOSING, WITH NO OBLIGATION TO THE OFFEROR BY THE GOVERNMENT. All responsible sources may submit a offer which shall be considered.***** (0337)

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