Department of Defense, Television-Audio Support Activity (T-ASA), Contracts Division, 3116 Peacekeeper Way, McClellan AFB, CA 95652- 1068

T -- AUDIOVISUAL SERVICES SOL NEWSCENTER POC Janet Janes, Contract Specialist, (916)643-0322 or Janet Lopez, Contracting Officer, (916)643-0283 The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) NewsCenter intends to acquire five years (base year and four one year options) of broadcast radio and television news production support for its Government-owned facility located in Alexandria, Virginia. The AFRTS NewsCenter produces and provides radio and television news and internal information programming for broadcast to U.S. military members and their families serving overseas. This facility produces daily news and information products in short format (one and two-minutes); occasional longer format programming (five to 30-minutes); and extended live coverage of Pentagon news conferences and other events for AFRTS broadcast. All products are placed within the daily programming of AFRTS outlets in much the same manner as the range of material produced by the news department of a typical U.S. radio or television station. The facility also produces the television videotape-of-record of all Department of Defense news briefings in the Pentagon PublicAffairs Briefing Studio, makes video and audio tape dubs of selected NewsCenter products for review by Government officials, maintains an indexed archive of stock videotape footage and completed radio and television products. The successful offeror is required to place five staff members; two (2) broadcast news writers, two (2) television editors, and one (1) graphics artist/designer/operator on site at the AFRTS NewsCenter which will provide these employees with adequate equipment and space to perform these duties. Facilities include a two-camera newsroom/studio, Associated Press NewsCenter newsroom computer system; AP/UPI wire services; Avid Media Composer non-linear edit systems, Grass Valley Group VPE-series linear edit systems using Betacam-SP videotape equipment; Macintosh-based graphics system including Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop and After Effects; Pinnacle Flash Graphix composer paint box/still store; Abekas A-72 character generators; and a radio news studio including reel-to-reel and DAT audio recorder/reproducers, cartridge tape and DigiCart machines and a Sound Forge digital audio workstation. The successful offeror will use the AFRTS NewsCenter facilities and equipment in conjunction with existing military and civilian government staff to produce the program material stated above and similar other products as may be required. Most writing and production occurs in the NewsCenter's Alexandria facility but could also take place at the Pentagon or other locations in the National Capital Region. Travel by on-site personnel is unlikely. The company selected must maintain operational activities within 50-miles of Washington, D.C. The Television-Audio Support Activity is tasked to procure the above mentioned requirement. HOW TO RESPOND: If you are interested in competing for an acquisition resulting from this notice, please submit a response stating your intent via e-mail or fax to: Television-Audio Support Activity (T-ASA), ATTN: Janet Janes, RFP: NewsCenter. E-mail address: janes@tasa1.army.mil. Fax number: (916) 643-4032. NOTE: All responses must include a company name, address, point of contact, telephone number, and e-mail address. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency, however a small business set-aside will be invoked if a sufficient number of applications are received from qualified small businesses. Estimated solicitation issue date is Feb 99. A pre-proposal conference will be scheduled on/about Feb 99 at the AFRTS Newscenter, Fairfax, Virginia. To be eligible to receive an award resulting from this solicitation, contractor must be registered with the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database, NO EXCEPTIONS. In order to register, you may apply through the internet at "http://ccr.edi.disa.mil", you must include your Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS) number in order to apply. All responses to this notice should make reference to Request for Proposal number: NEWSCENTER. Point of contact in this office is Janet Janes, (916) 643-0322, or e-mail: janes@tasa1.army.mil. Posted 12/11/98 (W-SN279642). (0345)

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