38 LS/LGCX, 4022 Hilltop Rd Ste 211, Tinker AFB OK 73145-2713

D -- LOCAL COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES DUE 032597 POC Cynthia J. Obermeyer, Contracting Officer, 405-734-9297 This announcement is to provide notice that the 38 LS/LGCX, Tinker AFB, OK will negotiate and issue Basic Agreements with companies certified to provide local exchange services within the state of Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, Minnesota, West Virginia, Iowa, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Ohio. Services to be provided are local commercial communications services for Air Force military installations under SIC Code 4813. The specific sites will include major active duty sites, guard/reserve units, and recruiting stations throughout each state. Major active duty sites typically support 2000 lines or more (some with a private automatic branch exchange); a guard or reserve site typically supports 1000 lines or less (some with a private automatic branch exchange); and recruiting stations with typically less than 10 station lines direct from a telephone company or through a key system. The Basic Agreements will require a Contractor to engineer and furnish local exchange access services, analog and digital access transport services, analog and digital access transport services, and provide a reliable and quality inter- and intra-Local Access and Transport Area (LATA) interconnect function. The Contractors shall provide all transmission facilities, equipment, materials, maintenance, test equipment, and design layout needed to perform and provide local access and transport service and functions at the designated demarcation points for establishing a point of presence or point of entry. Access to the local exchange shall include operator assistance, directory assistance, and emergency 911 services and functions. Interested offerors need to contact the Contracting Officer and will need to provide the following documents: (1) a copy of their state certificate or written order issued by the PUC including a certificate number, if applicable, to provide local exchange service; (2) a discussion of the business structure (e.g. facilities based or reseller) to support the communication network for a Government installation; (3) a discussion of the access to services, such as 911 emergency services, directory assistance, and operator assistance, through your network; (4) a discussion of your technical and engineering capacity to provide data and transmission services to the Government installations; (5) a discussion of the method, which is accepted by your state PUC, in which you will provide exchange prefix NNX protability for lines and for trunks with direct indial numbers; and (6) a discussion of the methodology to be used to transfer service from the incumbent provider. Interested offerors shall also provide, if available, a published service offering document and published rate schedule for the service offerings. The published service offering disk formatted to 1.44 megabytes and compatible with Microsoft Word 7.0. Vendors should indicate if their proposed solution or capabilities are limited to any specific geographic region or by technology, resources,or regulatory restrictions (and if so state where). Submit the above information to 38 LS/LGCX, Attn: Cynthia Obermeyer, 4022 Hilltop Road, Suite 207, Tinker AFB, OK 73145-2713 by COB 25 Mar 97. After receipt of a Basic Agreement, companies will be afforded the opportunity to compete with other Agreement holders for site specific requirements throughout each state. A solicitation via quote/RFP/etc. containing site specific requirements will be issued to obtain proposals and a competitive Communication Service Authorization (CSA) will be awarded after applying the evaluation criteria established in the request for proposal/quote. A CBD announcement will be published for each solicitation, with the specific site requirements prior to its issuance. (0055)

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