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D -- DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS NETWORK TRANSMISSION SERVICES -- PACIFIC (DTS -- P) SOL DCA200-98-R-0043 DUE 121098 POC Mr. Terry L. Green, Contract Specialist, 618-229-9464 or Mr. Peter G. Smingler, Contracting Officer, 703-681-0526 WEB: Click here to access the site from which the RFP may, http://www.ditco.disa.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist or the, green@scott.disa.mil or smingler@ncr.disa.mil. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)/Defense Information Technology Contracting Organizations (DITCO) will issue a Request For Proposal (RFP) for Defense Information Systems Network Transmission Services -- Pacific (DTS -- P) on or about 21 August 1998. The DISN Transmission Services -- Pacific (DTS -- P) contract will meet the transmission needs of the Department of Defense and its Services and Agencies and other Federal Departments within the Expanded Pacific Region. The Expanded Pacific Region includes the Commander-In-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) Area of Responsibility (AOR) including, but not limited to Alaska, Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Diego Garcia, Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Johnston Island, Korea, Kwajalein, Okinawa, Philippines, Singapore, South East Asia and Wake Island and the SOUTHCOM AOR including the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The essential characteristics of the DTS -- P are positive control, flexibility, agility, diversity, security, interoperability, seamless, cost-effective, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) standards based. The Contractor shall provide transmission services between any two locations worldwide (except for services where both termination points are within the State of Hawaii) so long as at least one of the termination points is located within the Expanded Pacific Region. The Contractor will be responsible for interfacing at Government designated Bandwidth Manager locations designated as Gateways for connectivity to the Continental United States and the State of Hawaii. Services can be long term (up to the duration of the contract) or short term (i.e., less than 90 days). The transmission services shall support digital voice, data and video services along with signal encryption capabilities between points designated by the Government. The Contractor will be responsible for furnishing all personnel, facilities, equipment, material, supplies, support and management, and shall perform all functions necessary to perform site surveys, engineer, configure, condition, provision, install, test, operate, maintain, administer and secure all services to achieve/provide physical and electronic connectivity as set forth in the Statement of Work and Functional Requirements Specification. The scope of the DTS -- P contract includes the following: (a) PAC Intra- and Inter- access area point-to-point transmission services. Transmission may be acquired at all bandwidths of services during the life of this contract. (b) Commercial ATM overflow service to augment the Government's ATM infrastructure and bulk encryption may be acquired as service options. (c) Network management information provided electronically to the Government Regional Operations and Security Centers (ROSC) at DISA PAC Headquarters, Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii. Security related information will be reported electronically to the Global Operations and Security Center (GOSC), CINCPAC J6, D3 Transport Product Manager, and to Government Regional Operations and Security Centers (ROSCs); ROSC PACIFIC, ROSC SCOTT, ROSC COLUMBUS, and ROSC EUROPE. (d) Post, camp, and station support services including, but not limited to wiring, equipment and related installation services to accommodate service delivery as defined in specific Task Orders. The Government may order any transmission media, speed or technical enhancement that becomes commercially available during the contract term to accomplish the foregoing service objectives. The contract will be awarded to the responsive, responsible technically acceptable offeror presenting the lowest life cycle costs for implementing and maintaining, over the life of the contract, the evaluation model services. It will be a Fixed-Price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract with a supporting Time and Materials component. The period of performance will be a five year base period with five one year option periods. The RFP will be posted on or about 22 August 1998 on the World Wide Web at http://www.ditco.disa.mil under Contracting Opportunities on the DITCOHome Page. A reading room with related reference material is located at the DISN Program Management Office, 5111 Leesburg Pike, Skyline 5, 9th Floor, Room 9114, Falls Church, Virginia. The reading room is AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY from 0800 to 1130 and 1300 to 1630, Monday through Friday, excluding Government holidays. Contract Ms. Ngoc Kolbenschlag at 703-681-0273 or via email at kolbensn@ncr.disa.mil for an appointment. The Government will furnish a 110V outlet for the contractors use in the reading room. The Government will not furnish copiers, faxes, telephones, or paper for contractor use. Additional related reference material can be accessed through the DISN Homepage at http://www.disa.mil/DISN/disnhome.html. A DISN Transmission Services -- Pacific Preproposal Conference has been scheduled for Friday, 28 August 1998 from 1000 until 1600. The conference will be held at the Global Reach Planning Center (GRPC), 105 W. Martin Street, Building 109, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Registration and directions for the Preproposal Conference are available on the DISA External Homepage at www.disa.mil. Attendess at the Conference will be able to receive messages at 618-229-4549 (DSN 576-4549) and faxes at 618-229-5695 (DSN 576-5695). The Government is scheduling site surveys at 19 separate Pacific AOR locations. Prospective offerors desiring to have representatives participate in the site surveys shall provide registration information in writing to DITCO/DTS22, Attn: Mr. Terry L. Green, 2300 East Drive, Scott AFB, IL., 62225-5406, (RFP DCA200-98-R-0043). Registrations may be mailed to Mr. Green, faxed to him at 619-229-9436 or emailed to greent@scott.disa.mil. Site surveys are scheduled for Hawaii at Hickam AFB and NCTAMS Wahiawa, Guam at Anderson AFB and Finegayan, Korea at Osan, Walker Camp Tango and Yongsan, Japan at Sasebo, Yokosuka, Yokota and Misawa, Okinawa at Camp Courtney, Fort Buckner and Kadena, Alaska at Elmendorf AFB, SOUTHCOM in Puerto Rico, Panama and JTF-B (Honduras). Requests must be received no later than 14 calendar days from the date the RFP is released. Request for site survey reservations must provide the following information for each individual desiring to attend the site surveys: full name, social security number, company and position, security clearance, granting agency, date clearance granted, birth date, place of birth and citizenship. The survey date and time, name, address, and telephone numbers of the contacts will be provided only to those offerors who register to attend the site surveys. PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS ARE REQUESTED TO LIMIT THEIR ATTENDEES TO TWO PER COMPANY. ALL inquiries regarding the DTS -- P RFP shall be submitted electronically and directed to both Mr. Terry L. Green, Contract Specialist, at green@scott.disa.miland Mr. Peter G. Smingler, Contracting Officer, at sminglep@ncr.disa.mil. Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 4899 will be used for determining company size status.***** LLLL Posted 08/07/98 (W-SN234360). (0219)

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