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

D -- AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES DUE 062398 POC Contact Point: Daisy Matthew, (202)712-0512, Thomas S. Bordone, Contracting Officer Due to lack of responses from small business offerors this requirement is being re-synopsized on an unrestricted basis to all responsible offerors. The U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) is seeking 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 options for three additional one year periods. 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. Simplified Acquisitions Procedures will apply to this award. 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. These services shall include optionsto order replacement or additional pagers or any cost information related to the lease of pagers. 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 submitted on the basis of F.O.B. destination. All responsible sources may submit a offer in response to this notice, all offers shall be considered. 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. A technical proposal and price quotation is required from any offeror responding. Asite visit will be provided on June 16, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.(EST). Please contact Ms. Matthews on (202)712-0512 or Ms. Nolan on (202)712-0857 with the number of persons that will be included in the site visit. Offers are due to Ms. Matthews by 06/22/98, 4:00 p.m.(EST) c.o.b. No solicitation is available. 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. The Standard Industrial Code(SIC) is 4812. (0161)

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