U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Procurement, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room 7.10-013, Washington, D.C. 20523-7101

99 -- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES DUE 051198 POC Contact Point: Daisy Matthews, 202-712-0512, Contracting Officer, Thomas S. Bordone In accordance with requirements set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) 5.201, the U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) is seeking small business sources to provide leased pagers and installation of equipment for pager services for its Washington, DC based employees. Paging services must be provided to all USAID locations within the Ronald Reagan Building, including area from the B3 level(basement) to the 9th floor. It is anticipated that this will require the contractor to install signal transmission and signal distribution facilities within the building. Number of pagers required -- Numeric(Metro only) Qty. 135, Alpha Numeric(Metro only) Qty. 11, Numeric(Nationwide only) Qty. 20, Alpha Numeric(Nationwide only) Qty. 11, and service activation for all pagers. Offer must include equipment lease charge, airtime, monthly call allowance, cost of replacement batteries, cost for broken pager parts e.g. battery doors and belt clips, and replacement cost lost or stolen pagers, 24 hour/daily on site maintenance/replacement services, and any other miscellaneous charges that may apply. Contractors are required to include information/maps regarding their services area (both locally and nationally) with their offers. Services are needed from date of award through December 31, 1998, with option for an additional three year period. Simplified Acquisitions Procedures will apply to this award. The government intends to make a single award to the responsible offeror whose offer is the most advantageous to the government, considering price and price related factors. Offer must include a technical description of the items being offered in sufficient detail to evaluate compliance with the requirements in this notice. This may include product literature, or other documents if necessary. Quotes must include pricing for each option year as well as the base year, and evaluation for award may include the option year pricing. Quotes shall include all price and any discount terms and all applicable fees,including domestic freight charges, that contractor requires. The Agency will not pay any charges not quoted in the offer(including a reasonable estimate for domestic freight charges from the vendor's shipping point to destination, if contractor does not offer destination pricing), however, all quotes must be shipped on the basis of F.O.B. destination. All offers submitted in response to this notice shall contain a complete description of each item being offered, including the quantity, the unit of measure and unit of extended cost. The offeror must state the total dollar value of the offer and pricing valid for thirty (30) day from quote submission. Offers are due to the POC specified above by 05/12/98, 4:00 p.m.(EST) c.o.b. These services shall include options to order replacement or additional pagers or any cost information related to the lease of pagers. No solicitation is available. A technical proposal and price quotation is required from any offeror responding. Simplified Acquisitions Procedures will applyto this award. Responses received after that date or without the required information will not be considered. Questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing or by fax to (202) 216-3052 or (202) 216-3143 attn: Daisy Matthews. A site visit will be provided on April 29, 1998, at 9:00 a.m. Please contact Ms. Matthews, with the number of persons that will be included in the site visit. Standard business size -- 1,500 employees. The Standard Industrial Code(SIC) is 4812. The preferred method of distribution of USAID procurement information is via the Internet or by request of a solicitation on a 3.5" floppy disk (WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 format). This CBD notice can be viewed and downloaded using the Agency Web Site. The notice can be downloaded from the Agency web site. The worldwide web address is http://www.info.usaid.gov. Select business and procurement opportunities from the home page, then "USAID Procurements." On the following screen, select "Download Available USAID Solicitations." Receipt of the notice through Internet must be confirmed by written notification ot the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this notice to ensure that it has been received from Internet in its entirety and USAID bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. (0113)

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