Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration, Procurement Branch, 725 17th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20503

D -- INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER SOL 99-13 DUE 100298 POC Point of Contact -- Thomas Taylor, Contracting Officer, 202-395-7664 The Executive Office of the President (EOP) is soliciting offers for Internet connection and services and intends to award a one-year contract with four (4) one- year options. The scope of services to be performed under the solicitation consists of providing access to the Internet, the communication lines making the physical connections between the EOP and the service provider, maintaining all communication equipment supplied by the service provider to create the communication links (including responsibility to resolve all TELCO related interruptions) and reporting on the systems reliability, utilization and performance. The service provider shall be a 1st Tier ISP and is required to have staffing available to monitor the services and interfaces 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The Offeror shall provide support for two (2) distinct domains, the EOP.GOV and WHITEHOUSE.GOV domains with two separate communication lines providing connectivity, with communication speeds of 10Mbs with the ability to scale to 45Mbs on short notice to accomodate special events for short terms. The Offeror shall have and provide access to a Network Operations Center (NOC) for support purposes 7x24x365. Additionally, the Offeror shall provide Domain Name Server (DNS) hosting, redundant communications between their Point of Presence (POP) and the Internet, redundancy between the EOP and their POP, Statistical data collection and reporting, Security monitoring filters, advise and alerts, News server access, Mail relay, Time Services, and Mbone capability. Further, the Offeror must provide TCP/IP protocol support to include, but not limited to, IP version 4 and IP version 6. Automatic communication Fail-Over shall be provided by the ISP at the EOP site, rerouting communications from one domain through the other should either communication link become inoperable. Offerors must provide specifications on equipment, software, and configurations proposed as part of their technical proposal to allow for government review. Estimated RFP release date is 10/15/98. Posted 09/18/98 (D-SN251611). (0261)

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