Bureau of Land Management, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, ID 83709

58 -- LEASE/PURCHASE VOICE MAIL SYSTEM SOL 1422D910Q970017 DUE 052097 POC Patricia A. Fort, Contracting Officer, 208-373-3910 E-MAIL: Lease/Purchase Voice Mail System, pfort@id.blm.gov. The Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office would like to purchase a Voice mail system on a five year lease purchase. At the end of the five years, the BLM will own the Voice Mail system. During the five year lease period, the contractor will provide full maintenance, parts replacement and labor during the lease. Contractor must respond in 24 hours from the time of notification, for any system failures, and must have the system returned to service within 48 hours of the time of notification. The Voice Mail system must be fully integrated with the AT&T Definity G1 telephone system. The Voice Mail system must be capable of distinguishing between a mailbox holders extension being busy or a no answer. If the extension is busy, the Voice Mail system will provide the caller with the option of remaining on hold, go to specified operator, or to leave a message in the extensions mail box. On a no answer, the caller will be given the option of going to a specified operator, or to the extensions mailbox, or routed to a pager, or routed to a cell phone number. The Voice Mail system must have the capability to provide a minimum of 200 mailboxes. The Voice Mail system must be capable of recognizing and transferring calls to a minimum of 15 operator positions for the various departments. Subscribers must have the capability to have message notifications to the following: Extensions Local or Long Distance Cellular Telephones Radio Pagers Digital Pagers PIN Pagers Subscribers, while listening to a new or saved message, must have the following options apply: Pause/Resume Skip Ahead Backup Replay Skip to the Next Message Delete Current Message Save Current Message Reply to Message by Recording a Response or Transferring to the Sender. Forward Message Cancel Speed and Volume Control Voice Mail's Automated Attendant features: External Call Forwarding Operator Transfer Audiotext Announcements Speech Recognition Caller Queuing Dial by Name Directory Multi-level Menuing Year 2000 Compliant Year 2000 compliant means information technology that accurately processes date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations. Furthermore, Year 2000 compliant information technology, when used in combination with other information technology, shall accurately process date/time data if the other information technology properly exchanges date/time data with it. All hardware, software, or firmware in any products furnished under this contract shall either be Year 2000 compliant as delivered or, if noncompliant at that time, be upgraded to be Year 2000 compliant, at no additional cost to the government, by December 31, 1999. The existing government-owned or furnished information technology that will be used with the information technology acquired under this contract is: Lucent Technology (AT&T) Definity G1. This existing information technology is Year 2000 compliant. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation is issued as a request for quotations (RFQ), number 1422D910Q970017. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-45. This solicitation is under standard industrial classification code 4813 where number of employees does not exceed 1,500. The Contract line item number is: Item 1, Lease/Purchase a Voice Mail System on a five-year lease. The due date for this is 30 days after award of the contract and shall be delivered to the Contracting Officer, BLM, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, ID 83709. The provision at 52.212.1, Instruction to Offerors-Commercial is applicable. The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items is applicable, and the following shall be included in paragraph (a) of that provision. Quotes will be evaluated on price, and past performance. Past performance will be based on the Contracting Officer's knowledge, contacting provided references, and other reasonable sources. Price is estimated at less than $100,000. Selection will be made of the offer that is most advantageous to the Government. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision as 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with its offer. The clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, is applicable. The clause 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, is applicable, and the following additional FAR clauses cited in the clause are applicable: 52.222-26, 52.222-35, 52.222-36, 52.225-3. Offers are due at the above office by close of business May 20, 1997. For additional information contact the above named contracting officer. (0121)

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