38 LS/LGCO, 4022 Hilltop Rd Ste 112, Tinker AFB OK 73145-2713

J -- ESTABLISHMENT OF QUALIFIED VENDORS LIST (QVL) FOR MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND RECURRING SUPPORT SERVICES OF BASE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AT CONUS LOCATIONSI POC CONTACT: Rhonda Trent (405) 734-9399; CONTRACTING OFFICER: Rita Blair (405)734-9399 It is the government's intent to establish a qualified vendors list for operations, maintenance, and recurring support services of the Base Telecommunications Systems (BTS) at AF bases CONUS-wide. The BTS is an extremely complex system providing a communications system that is vital to the command and control of Air Force organizations. Moreover, the BTS operations and maintenance contract may cover local and wide area networks that increase the complexity of the systems. These contracts are the heart of AF communications requiring a high degree of technical knowledge and competence combined with the ability to maintain and provide expansion services of the distribution system, in-house wiring, and customer premise equipment. Systems to be maintained are diverse requiring the utmost in software and hardware maintenance capability to maintain communications systems which are unique in their application providing support to a defined community of users involved in wartime mission requirements. Each base has a wide range of complexity from current digital technology to 1950 vintage analog systems. Vendors will be pre-qualified and a Qualified Vendors List (QVL) established. Under this streamlining initiative, prospective offerors will be required to submit their technical and past performance qualifications on a one-time basis rather than with every solicitation. The QVL will be established through an evaluation process and will be open continually. Following detailed discussions, those offerors determined technically acceptable will be placed on a QVL for future procurements. After establishment of the QVL, separate RFPs will be issued for individual base requirements. Technical competence must be demonstrated in operation and maintenance, including parts replacement of switching systems, inside and outside cable plant (fiber optic and copper installation and maintenance), ancillary equipment, customer premise equipment (key systems, dial-up modems, telephone sets, etc.), maintenance of LAN hubs/routers/fault isolation, and telephone switchboard operations. Technical competence includes expansion of building in-house wiring, outside fiber optic and copper distribution, and customer premise equipment. There are both commercial and Defense Switched Network (DSN) trunks, access to FTS 2000, local city exchange lines, hot lines, data circuits, radio circuits, and crash nets. Contracts are typically for a base year and four option periods totaling approximately 60 months. We invite your participation by registering your interest on our World Wide Web page at the following address: https://www.eiw38.af.mil/contracting/lgcvo/introhp.htm. Prequalification packages will be provided to all registrants through our web location. The QVL list to be published 1 Jan 98 will be based upon packages received NLT 14 Nov 1997. Points of contact for this effort are: Rita Blair or Rhonda Trent, 38 LS/LGCO, 4022 Hilltop Rd, Tinker AFB OK 73145-2713; telephone 405-734-9399, telefax 405-734-9220. The e-mail addresses are: rita.blair@mailgate.eiw38.af.mil or rhonda.trent@mailgate.eiw38.af.mil. (0268)

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