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61 -- CATEGORY 5 PLENUM CABLE SOL PR-DC-98-02444 DUE 060598 POC Contract Specialist-Jennifer Cranford 202-564-4758; Contracting Officer-Margaret Milligan 202-564-4752 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contract specialist via email., cranford.jennifer@epamail.epa.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested, and a written solicitation document will not be issued. This solicitation, #PR-DC-98-02444, is a request for quotation (RFQ). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-04. The associated standard industrial classification code (SIC) for this procurement is 5063, and the small business size is 100 employees. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a requirement for 600,000 feet of plenum rated category 5 communications cable for use in the EPA New Headquarters Development Project. To comply with warranty conditions in existing connectivity hardware, only the following manufacturers' cable will be considered acceptable for this solicitation: Belden, Berk-Tec, CommScope, Mohawk, and Prescolite. Required delivery date is July 1, 1998. Place of delivery and acceptance and FOB point is 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial applies to this acquisition. Proposals will be evaluated and award made to the responsible, responsive firm whose offer conforming to this solicitation is the lowest cost and technically acceptable offer. All vendors are to include with their quotes a completed copy of provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications- Commercial Items, which may be downloaded from http://www.arnet.gov/far/. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-commercial Items, also applies to this acquisition, including subparagraphs (1) 52.222-3, Convict Labor; (6) 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; (7) 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled Vietnam Era Veterans; (8) 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; (9) 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era; (10) 52.225-3, Buy American Act-supplies; (13) 52.225-18, European Union Sanction for End Products; and (15) 52.225-21, Buy American Act, North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act-Balance of Payments Program. These clauses may be downloaded at http://www.arnet.gov/far/. All interested, responsible firms should submit quotes, by 3:00 pm, Washington, DC time, on June 5, 1998, to one of the two following addresses: COURIER ADDRESS: USEPA, The Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, 6th floor Bid & Proposal Room, Washington, DC 20004, Attention: Jennifer Cranford, 3803R; OR: US MAIL ADDRESS: USEPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, Attention: Jennifer Cranford, 3803R. Copies of above-referenced clauses are also available upon written request to either of the above addresses or via email to cranford.jennifer@epamail.epa.gov. (0141)

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