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

D -- LOCAL COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES POC Contracting Officer, Cathy D. Summers, (405) 734-9759 This announcement is to provide notice that the 38 LS/LGCX, Tinker AFB OK will negotiate and issue Basic Agreements for the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington with companies certified to provide local exchange services. Services to be provided are local commercial communications services for Air Force military installations under SIC Code 4813. These will include major active duty sites, guard/reserve units, and recruiting stations throughout the above listed states. 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. Some combination guard and reserve sites may be in the category of 2000 lines or less. The contractor should indicate for which of the above categories they can provide service. This Basic Agreement will require a Contractor to engineer and furnish local exchange access 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 contractor shall provide all transmission facilities, equipment, materials, maintenance, test equipment, and design layout needed to perform and provide local access and transport services and functions at the designated demarcation point 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 shall provide the following: a copy of their state certificate for the state(s) issued by the applicable Public Utility Commission; a discussion of the business structure (e.g. facilities based or reseller) to support the communication network fora Government installation; a discussion of your technical and engineering capacity to provide data and transmission services to the Government installation; a discussion of the method, which is accepted by the applicable state Public Utility Commission, in which you will provide exchange prefix NNX portability for lines and for trunks with direct indial numbers; and a discussion of the methodology to be used to transfer service from the incumbent provider. Interested offers shall also provide, if available, a published service offering document and published rate schedule for the service offerings. The published service offering document and published rate schedule may be submitted on a 650 megabyte CD ROM. 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: Ms Cathy Summers, 4022 Hilltop Rd, Ste 204, Tinker AFB OK 73145-2713 by COB 19 May 97. After receipt of a Basic Agreement, companies will be afforded the opportunity to compete with other Agreement holders for site specific requirements throughout the above listed states. A solicitation via quote/Request for Proposal (RFP)/etc. containing site specific requirements will be issued to obtain proposals and a competitive Communication Service Authorization (CSA) will be awarded after applying low price, technically acceptable proposal evaluation in accordance with FAR 15.6. Past performance will also be evaluated using the performance-price trade-off (PPT) procedures. Technical evaluation will consist of, but is not limited to, an analysis of the following types of criteria: Inter-and-intra LATA network agreements, network redundancy and survivability, method of direct indial number growth within a prefix NNX that has been ported from another switching system, and service availability statistics (access to the customer site, switching systems, alternate routing ability, and transmission system protection policy.) A CBD announcement will be published for each solicitation, with the specific site requirements, prior to its issuance. The 38th EIW proposes to consolidate area requirements wherever feasible for evaluation and award purposes. (0073)

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