National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Contracting Office, Building 201, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 94123

D -- PROVIDE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICES TO PRESIDIO TELECOM. SOL 1443RP8140-98-021 POC Leo R. Guillory (415) 561-4501 WEB: NPS/GOGA, www.nps.gov/goga. E-MAIL: leo_r._guillory@nps.gov, leo_r._guillory@nps.gov. The National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA, (NPS) has identified a requirement to procure services from one or more qualified facilities based interexchange carrier(s)("IEC")for long distance telephone services which include comprehensive intra-lata, interlata, domestic, and international interexchange services for redistribution by the NPS for use by non-Federal government Park Partners in the supplied areas primarily located at the Presidio of San Francisco. All areas of the Golden Gate NRA, including, but not limited to Fort Baker, Fort Cronkhite, Fort Barry, Fort Mason, and Fort Point shall be included in the serviced areas. It is anticipated that contract award will be for a base period of 1-year and two (2) 1-year options, exercisable at the sole discretion of Golden Gate NRA and subject to the availability of funds. The stated purpose of this contract is to acquire long distance telephone services, including all off-site supporting resources including staffing, equipment, circuits, trunklines, and materials necessary to provide uninterrupted long distance telephone services to the National Park Service's Presidio telecommunications system ("Presidio Telecom") for use by non-Federal government Park Partners including commercial and residential consumers of telecommunications services. The following are minimum qualifications for consideration for award, failure to demonstrate compliance with all these minimum requirements shall disqualify the proposal from further consideration for award: (1) Demonstration of California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC") certification as a facilities based IEC for long distance services; (2) Demonstration of capability to provide connectivity between the Presidio of San Francisco and all locations throughout the United States, North America, and the world, consistent with the North American Dialing Plan; (3) Demonstration of capability to (a) meet short lead times for installing and providing contract requirements; (b) meet the rates objectives stated in the solicitation; and (4) Demonstration of a minimum five years experience each for key personnel with managing, operating, and maintaining long distance telephone services for a CPUC certificated IEC. Proposals which fully conform to the minimum qualifications listed above will be further evaluated subject to the following significant evaluation factors and significant sub-factors as listed below. Numerical designation is used for organization, the listed Evaluation Factors are of equal importance: (1) Demonstration of specialized and recent experience with supplying long distance services similar in scope and technical requirements; (2) Demonstration of successful past performance in the delivery of long distance services to non-government commercial and residential users in terms of customer service, quality of engineering and maintenance support, and in conformance with the performance standards, service response times and restoral times set forth in this solicitation; (3) Demonstration of capability to provide long distance services at competitive market rates; (4) Demonstration of financial capability to maintain and continuously supply long distance services throughout the contract term, (5) Demonstration of capability to provide comprehensive installation and maintenance support services including: (a) Lucent certified switching system engineer staff with a minimum of three years experience with the AT&T/Lucent 5ESS version 9.2 switching system, and (b) Lucent certified switching system technician staff with a minimum of two years experience and certification for the AT&T/Lucent 5ESS version 9.2 switching system; (6) Demonstration of capability to provide installation, programming, and billing rates tape support services for the NPS's Presidio Telecom billing system including the Advanced Communications Package ("ACP") and Telecommunications Resource Management System ("TeRMS") software package with the TMS-5 software package upgrade and right-to-use software including Tuxedo Transaction Processing Equipment, Infomix Online DBMS, and SQRIBE Technology SQR3 operating system software; and (7) Location of an existing point of presence and operations center within 100 miles of the Presidio Telecom MPOE at Building 67, Presidio of San Francisco. The applicable code is 8744. This solicitation is an unrestricted procurement inviting full and open competition. The National Park Service, Golden Gate NRA, welcomes and encourages the participation of small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned business concerns in this acquisition action. Solicitation documents will be available o/a April 28, 1998. Requests for the solicitation MUST be submitted in writing to the address contained herein. Faxed requests may be submitted to (415) 561-4515. Requests via email may be suvbmitted to leo_r._guillory@nps.gov. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered. (0090)

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