Department of the Treasury, DY, U.S. Customs Service, Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 4.2-E, Washington, DC 20229

58 -- COMMUNICATIONS TRACKING EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT SOL CS-99-013 POC Mark Weinstein (202) 927-0567 The United States Customs Service (Customs) has a requirement for Communication Tracking Equipment, ancillary equipment and services. The offeror shall provide Locator Workstations, Commercial Vehicle Locator Units, and Covert Vehicle Locator Units. The Locator Workstations shall be computer based workstations that shall be capable of locating Teletrac brand (Teletrac) transmitters. The Locator Workstation must be capable of dialing into a Teletrac mainframe, sending location commands, and displaying the location of the transmitter on a street level map on the screen. The offeror shall also provide documentation, training, and maintenance support and must have an annual maintenance program. Support shall be provided for one year after final acceptance by Customs under a one year warranty. Multiple Awards may be made by Customs under this requirement. An Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Type Contract with a five year contract life is contemplated with options for the acquisition of the equipmentset forth herein. Customs is contemplating having other federal law enforcement agencies use this contract vehicle to purchase Communication Tracking Equipment. This procurement has been designated as an 100% Small Business Set Aside, Standard Industrial Classification Code 3669, Size Standard 750 Employees. A Fast Track Source Selection Process will be used by Customs to award this requirement. The following criteria will be utilized to evaluate an offeror's response to this requirement: Experience (Has the offeror performed this effort previously?), Past Performance (how well did the offeror perform the effort?), Technical Capability and Compatibility to existing installed base Teletrac brand equipment, and Cost/Price. This requirement will be processed using the procedures set forth in FAR Part 12, Commercial Item Acquisition with the solicitation and contract containing the applicable provisions and clauses for conducting, evaluating, and awarding a contract for a commercial item. Since this is a commercial item acquisition, FAR 12.603 (c)(3)(ii) will be used for establishing the solicitation response time. Y2K Clauses shall be included as part of any contract resulting from this acquisition. Written requests for Solicitation CS-99-013 in response to this synopsis should reference the Solicitation Number and should be transmitted to Mr. Mark Weinstein, Contracting Officer, U.S. Customs Service, Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 4.2-E, Washington, DC 20229, Facsimile Number 202-927-7593, Internet E-Mail Address Mark.Weinstein@ customs.sprint.com or mark.j.weinstein@customs.treas.gov. No telephone requests will be honored. No hard copies of this Solicitation will be made available to the general public. The Solicitation will be made available to the general public on the World Wide Web at http://www.customs.treas.gov. Customs anticipates that this Solicitation will be released to the general public on or about November 10, 1998. As a result of this synopsis, Customs Solicitation No. CS-98-029, originally synopsized in the CBD on April 15, 1998, is hereby canceled. Offerors who submitted written requests for Solicitation No. CS-98-029 are not required to submit another written request to Customs for Solicitation No. CS-99-013 as those business concerns are already on our source list for this Solicitation CS-99-013. Posted 10/21/98 (W-SN264137). (0294)

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