Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21207

J -- MAINTENANCE OF TELLABS MULTIPLEXERS SOL SSA-RFQ-98-0437 DUE 031998 POC Jerry Burton (410) 965-9487 WEB: copy of cbd notice, http://www.ssa.gov/oag/oag1.htm. E-MAIL: contracting officer, Jerry.Burton@ssa.gov. The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to procure on-call (i.e., CE responds to equip. location after service request) maintenance coverage for twenty one (21) Tellabs Model 445 Electronic Time Slot Switches and forty (40) Tellabs Model 442 Mutiplexers which are installed at SSA Offices in Baltimore, MD -- Birmingham,AL -- Chicago, IL -- Jamaica, NY -- Kansas City, MO -- Philadelphia, PA -- and Richmond, CA. Principal periods of maintenance (PPM) will be 8a.m. to 5p.m. Monday through Friday and repair completion will be required within 14-PPM covered hours after service is requested. A firm-fixed-price contract with one base year and four one-year renewal options is expected to be utilized to acquire the maintenance service resulting from the simplified acquisition test procedures for commercial items in FAR 13.6. Written requests for the associated SSA-RFQ-98-0437 package should be submitted within 15 calendar days from this publication. The approximate date forthe RFQ release is 03/31/98 with quotations due 20 days after the release date. (0063)

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