Fleet & Industrial Supply Center, Regional Contracts Dept, Attn: Bid Officer/Code 210A94, 937 N. Harbor Drive, Suite 212, San Diego, CA 92132-0212

D -- METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK LOCAL ACCESS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES SOL N00244-97-R-5197 DUE 080897 POC Fax Solicitation Request to Bid Officer at (619) 532-2575 or call (619) 532-2690 WEB: Click here to find out more about FISC San Diego, http://www.sd.fisc.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to request a copy of the RFP, william_rodriguez@fmso.navy.mil. The Department of the Navy requires development and/or use of a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) which will provide an architecture to support the consolidated transfer of voice, video and data between and among Navy activities and other officially authorized Department of Defense/Federal entities in the San Diego metropolitan area. The current operating environment for information transfer consists of individual dedicated point to point circuits employing disparate technologies crisscrossing the San Diego Region. The Government- owned telephone system connects 14 naval bases (18 switches) and utilizes outdated microwave technology. The MAN's primary objectives entail innovative, Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) solutions to reduce current operating costs while integrating services onto a heterogeneous network that would take advantage of efficiencies of scale and improved or simplified management of these assets. The MAN must provide a minimum bandwidth of OC-3 and Asynchronous Transfer Mode functionality at all sites and must satisfy the Navy's local access/dial tone requirements over the next five years in light of such initiatives as Base Level Information Infrastructure (BLII) and Information Technology for the 21st Century (IT-21). The solicitation will provide industry with a complete Statement of Objectives (SOO) and offerors will be required to generate and propose a complete Statement of Work/Specification with coinciding fixed price contract line items reflecting the proposed solution. Expedited delivery of services is desired. Proposal evaluation will be based on the best value to the Government with emphasis on price, technical solution and the offeror's past performance. Oral proposals will be required. A two day site visit will commence on the eighth day after issuance of the solicitation (anticipated to be July 8, 1997). For updated information, please review our website at "http://www.sd.fisc.navy.mil". The Navy intends to satisfy its San Diego MAN requirements with the best solution available, therefore, interested parties are cautioned that this solicitation may not result in a contract if viable, cost effective industry solutions cannot be obtained. Consequently, companies that participate in this acquisition do so at their own cost and risk with no expectation that a contract award will result. The Contract Specialist, Tracy Boldig, may be reached by e-mail at "tracy_boldig@fmso.navy.mil". (0174)

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