DISA/D211, 5113 Leesburg Pike, Room 428, Falls Church, VA 22041

D -- DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS NETWORK INTERIM ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE (ATM) SERVICE (DATMS) SOL DCA200-98-R-0046 DUE 052998 POC Mr. Peter G. Smingler, Contracting Officer, (703) 681-0526 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contracting Officer and to request an e-mail copy of the addenda identified in the Notice., sminglep@ncr.disa.mil. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has a requirement to acquire commercial Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) service for 43 Government sites. Service shall be provided for a 6-month base period and may be provided, if requested by the Government, for up to two additional 6-month option periods. Additional sites may be added by bilateral modification as requirements are identified. The ATM service requirement is in support of expansion of DISA's Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) ATM Services Unclassified Network (DATMS-U). This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commerical items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is DCA200-98-R-0046. The solicitation is a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04 and Defense Acquisition Circular 91-13. This solicitation is issued as a Full and Open Competitive acquisition. Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 4899 will be used for determining company size status. The contract will be awarded on a firm fixed price basis. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS and at FAR 52.212-2, EVALUATION -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS apply to this acquisition. Evaluation factors in their relevant order of importance are: (a) technical acceptability, (b) past performance acceptability, and (c) price. Technical acceptability will be determined based upon the following: (1) Each offeror shall provide a short (no more than 15 pages) technical description of its commercial ATM service offering. Existing commercial literature may be provided, but is not required, to supplement the technical description; (2) The offeror must have and shall identify the locations of a Continental United States wide commercial ATM infrastructure currently in place having a sufficient number of backbone core switches to support the Government's requirement at, as a minimum, a commercial grade of service; (3) The Government may request face-to-face meetings to ensure its understanding of the service offering and infrastructure, may visit the offeror's network operations center, or may conduct site surveys at core switch locations. Past performance acceptability will be determined based upon the following: Each offeror shall provide the name and the point-of-contact and telephone number of Government Organizations or Companies (minimum -- 5, maximum -- 15) to whom ATM service has been provided. These references will be asked to provide information concerning service installation timeliness, quality of service, trouble resolution and general customer satisfaction. Information acquired through sources other than the references identified by the offeror may be considered by the Government in making its past performance acceptability determination. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS with their offer. The clause at FAR 52.212-4, CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS -- COMMERICAL ITEMS and at FAR 52.212-5, CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORERS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS apply to this acquisition. The provision at DFARS 252.225-7000, BUY AMERICAN ACT -- BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROGRAM CERTIFICATE and at DFARS 252.212-7000, OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS -- COMMERCIAL ITEMS apply to this acquisition. The clause at DFARS 252.212-7001, CONTRACT TERMS AND CONDITIONS REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT STATUTES OR EXECUTIVE ORERS APPLICABLE TO DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS OF COMMERCIAL ITEMS applies to this acquisition. The following technical information and/or requirements apply to the commercial service to be provided: PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY: Each site will require a single physical Service Delivery Point (SDP) DS-3 connection from the ATM Service Provider to the above-designated DISN Service Delivery Nodes (SDNs) which will be a Government provided ATM Switch and interface card (most common switch type: Fore Systems ASX-200BX with NM-4/DS-3C interface card). The physical SDP interface shall be compliant with ATM Forum Specification af-phy-0054.000 for DS3 ATM service. Coaxial cable, line coding B8ZS, Frame Format: C-bit parity, must be terminated with BNC connector. The vendor shall be responsible for installation and maintenance of the ATM service from the DS-3C interface card line side of the government ATM switch to the commercial demarc. Request two hour response time turn-around to repair once trouble call has been reported. Carrier is required to have circuit visibility to assist in any circuit outages. At initial installation, vendor must test the access line using a 2E23 test pattern for a 24-hour period. Vendor must provide all long-haul circuit numbers and local circuit identifiers for each location to the government prior to the government accepting service. LOGICAL CONNECTIVITY: DISN SDNs shall be initially logically interconnected through the commercial ATM Service using the interconnection topology outlined in files (Microsoft Excel format) available upon request via email from sminglep@ncr.disa.mil. Each logical connection shall be established using an ATM Forum compliant Permanent Virtual Path Connection (PVPC) between designated end-point Service Delivery Nodes. CONNECTIVITY QUALITY OF SERVICE: Each logical connection shall be initially established as an ATM Forum-compliant Variable Bit Rate (non-real-time) end-to-end connection using Usage Parameter Control mechanisms defined in ATM Forum UNI specifications, af-uni-0010.002. The following QoS parameters shall apply to each individual logical PVPC at any single Service Delivery Point: (1) Cell Loss Ratio (CLR): Less than 1x10-6 for cells with CLP=0; (2) Peak Cell Rate (PCR): Limit of Physical Interface (e.g., DS3 = 96,000 cells/sec); (3) Sustainable Cell Rate (SCR): nominally 10 MB/s (or approx. 23,500 cells/sec) (see Subscription Bandwidth Paragraph below). Note: Cell Transfer Delay (CTD) and Cell Delay Variation (CDV) are unspecified. SUBSCRIPTION BANDWIDTH: The commercial ATM service shall support Permanent Virtual Path Connection Sustainable Cell Rates (SCR) in increments up to the capacity of the physical interface. This is the configuration which will be used for proposal evaluation purposes. The contractor shall also propose a rate structure for incremental SCR up to the physical line limit of the SDP interface, as well as down to zero. CHANGES: The contractor shall provide for responsive configuration changes to the initial configuration, both in terms of logical connectivity and in terms of Quality of Service parameters associated with each logical connection. For example, it is expected that the initially specified Sustainable Rate (SCR) requirement per PVPC will be modified based upon evolving usage and traffic patterns once service has been established. Offerors shall prepare their technical and price proposals based upon information provided herein and addenda containing site specific information which will be provided by e-mail by sending a request to sminglep@ncr.disa.mil. Information concerning the CLIN number, required Service Date, Line Rate and Initial Sustainable Cell Rate for each of the 43 sites is provided below: Service Line Initial Sustainable CLIN Site Date Rate Cell Rate 0001 Kelly AFB, TX 15 JUL 98 DS-3 47,000 (20 Mbps) 0002 Pentagon, VA 15 JUL 98 DS-3 47,000 (20 Mbps) 0003 Falcon AFB, CO 15 JUL 98 DS-3 47,000 (20 Mbps) 0004 MacDill AFB, FL 15 JUL 98 DS-3 47,000 (20 Mbps) 0005 North Is. (San Diego), CA 15 JUL 98 DS-3 47,000 (20 Mbps) 0006 LeMoore NAS, CA 31 JUL 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0007 Travis AFB, CA 31 JUL 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0008 Malmstrom AFB, MT 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0009 Mountain Home, ID 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0010 F.E. Warren AFB, WY 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0011 USAF Academy, CO 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0012 Ft Carson, CO 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0013 Peterson AFB, CO 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0014 Ft Riley, KS 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0015 McConnell AFB, KS 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0016 Ft Leavenworth, KS 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0017 Whiteman AFB, MO 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0018 Ft Leonard Wood, MO 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0019 Grand Forks, ND 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0020 Minot AFB, ND 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0021 Ellsworth AFB, SD 15 AUG 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0022 Little Rock AFB, AR 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0023 Vance AFB, OK 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0024 Altus AFB, OK 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0025 Ft Sill, OK 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0026 Sheppard AFB, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0027 Dyess AFB, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0028 Goodfellow AFB, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0029 Ft Hood, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0030 Barksdale AFB, LA 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0031 Laughlin AFB, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0032 Corpus Chrisi NAS, TX 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0033 Ft Polk, LA 15 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0034 Ft Gordon, GA 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0035 Ft Jackson, SC 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0036 Shaw AFB, SC 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0037 Beaufort Naval Hosp, SC 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0038 Ft McPherson, GA 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0039 Ft Benning, GA 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0040 Moody AFB, GA 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0041 Ft Stewart, GA 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0042 Jacksonville NAS, FL 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) 0043 Patrick AFB, FL 30 SEP 98 DS-3 23,500 (10 Mbps) Based upon the information above and the addenda containing site specific information, propose a price for each of the Sites in the following format (Alternate formats shall be rejected without review): NONRECURRING MONTHLY RECURRING CLIN NOMENCLATURE COST COST 0001 (Site name) 0001AA ATM Service Installation $ N/A 0001AB ATM Service N/A $ Technical and cost proposals are due in one (1) soft copy in either MS Word or WordPerfect 6.1 no later than 29 May 1998, 2:00 EST p.m. to DISA/D211, Mr. Peter G. 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