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99 -- SOFTWARE APPLICATION VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE WORKING TOOL SOL F19628-99-R-0006 DUE 111698 POC POC: Tim Frank 781-377-5732; Contracting Officer: Mike Garrish 781-377-7061 WEB: ESC Business Opportunities Web Page, http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil. E-MAIL: Click Here to E-mail the POC, garrishm@hanscom.af.mil. SOFTWARE APPLICATION VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE WORKING TOOL (SAVCWT), Solicitation Number F19628-99-R-0006, Contracting Officer Mike Garrish, 781-377-7061 (garrishm@hanscom.af.mil), Contract Specialist Tim Frank, 781-377-5732 (frankt@hanscom.af.mil). This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial item prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information contained in this announcement. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This combined synopsis/solicitation is being issued as a Request for Proposal F19628-99-R-0006. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-06 and 97-08 (97-07 is not effective until 1JAN99). This acquisition has not been set aside for small business. This CDB announcement is a combined synopsis/solicitation to acquire Software Tools for Collaborative Workspaces. This action is for a non-competitive acquisition under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 and FAR Part 12. The Electronic Systems Center (ESC) intends to award a Firm-Fixed Price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to each of the following: GTE Electronics Systems Division, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 810, Arlington VA 22209; BTG Inc., 3877 Fairfax Ridge Road, Fairfax VA 22030; Teamwave Software Ltd, 100 Discovery Place One, 3553-31 Street, NW, Calgary Alberta, Canada, T2L 2K7; Placeware Inc., 201 Ravendale Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043. ESC is planning to acquire a software solution to create a virtual workspace among geographically separate locations in differing environments over Internet Protocol networks. The Command and Control (C2) Applications Product Area Directorate (C2PAD), Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 proposes to award the contracts for this effort during the first quarter of FY99. These contracts will be awarded pursuant to the authority of FAR 6.302-1 [10 USC 2304(c)(1)]. The ordering period will be from contract award for a 2 year period. The minimum order quantity is two (2) and the maximum order quantity is 7,000 with an expected quantity of 4,000. It is anticipated that the resulting contract will contain two IDIQ contract line items (CLINs). One CLIN will be for Software Licenses and the other will be for Software Sustainment. The tool(s) must meet the following technical requirements: 1) The product submitted must be currently available and require no development effort. It must be deliverable immediately and cannot be a Beta solution. 2) The product must be capable of operating in both the Windows NT (Version 4.0 or later) environment and the Solaris UNIX (Version 2.5 or later) environment. 3) The product must be capable of operating in multiple, geographically separate locations worldwide, simultaneously, over Internet type networks (campus solutions are not acceptable). 4) The product must be scalable and extensible. At a minimum, the product must currently support at least 25 users at 6 diverse locations simultaneously. It must be capable of collaboration in a one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many environment. 5) The product must posses the following functional capabilities: whiteboard, audio, text (chat), and video. The products submitted must also be standards based, plug and play, have shared data capability, and be session persistent. 6) The product must be fully sustainable to include training, systems installation support, product maintenance, product improvement, and systems administration. The provision at 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial (JUN 97) applies to this acquisition with the following addendum: The Air Force intends to award four ID/IQ contracts. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provision at 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certification -- Commercial Items with their offer. 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 applies to this acquisition. All proposals received will be evaluated using the requirements criteria detailed above. Offerors are expected to respond to this combined synopsis/solicitation, no later than 15 calendar days after the date of this publication, to ESC/DIB, 5 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731, Attn: Tim Frank. An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from offerors or potential offerors during this acquisition. The purpose of the Ombudsman is not to diminish the authority of the program director or contracting officer, but to communicate contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government personnel. When requested, the Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. Ombudsman do not participate in the evaluation of responses, source selection, or formulation of acquisition strategy. Interested parties are invited to call the Electronic Systems Center's Ombudsman, Col Lee Hughes, (781) 377-5106. The Ombudsman should be contacted only with issues or problems that have previously been brought to the attention of the program manager and/or contracting officer and could not be satisfactorily resolved at that level. The proposed contract action is for supplies for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with limited sources under authority of FAR 6.302-1. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. The Government anticipates award of the contracts on or about 1 December 1998. This synopsis does not restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach, nor should it be construed as a commitment by the Government. Request you direct any questions to either Tim Frank or Mike Garrish. Note 22 applies. Posted 10/30/98 (D-SN267119). (0303)

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