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D -- HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS AND INSTALLATION SOL 52RANR900029 DUE 061899 POC Jan Beer, Contract Specialist, 303/497-6320, FAX 303/497-3163 or Procurement Technicians 303/497-3221 E-MAIL: NOAA; MASC Acquisition Management, Brenda.S.Summers@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) is a scientific research and development organization which uses Local and Wide Area Networking extensively. The FSL presently connects to the Internet via a 1.5 Mbps (Megabits per second) local loop circuit to an MCI Internet access port which is also a full 1.5 Mbps port. Traffic monitoring of this circuit and Internet Service Port indicates that the available bandwidth will not meet expected and planned traffic volume increases. It is the FSL's intention to initiate Internet access using Tiered T-3 at an initial fixed rate of 6 Mbps. It is also FSL's intention to provide and accept backup Internet access to the other Government agencies sharing the Department of Commerce Boulder Laboratories campus at 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado. The service delivery location will be the David Skaggs Research Center (DSRC), 125 Broadway, Boulder, CO. The DSRC is new construction and was completed in March, 1999. It includes a structured wiring cable plant built to the Federal Standard 1090 and EIA/TIA 568a Commercial Building and Wiring Standard. Special arrangements have been made with U.S. West so that there is direct fiber optic access to both of Boulder, Colorado's telephone Central Offices (CO). The Internet Service Provider (ISP) is required to perform, including but not limited to, the following tasks: 1) Provide and operate a National Backbone interconnecting major metropolitan areas in the coterminous 48 states with significant connectivity to other continents and countries; 2) Order, install, terminate, activate, and operate the local loop circuit between the DSRC and the ISP Point-of-Preference (POP). The local loop shall be a full DS-3 circuit and shall not be shared with any other application. The selected ISP shall provide all circuits, ISP POP ports and line termination equipment as part of this contract; 3) Provide the Cisco part number for the cable to connect from the ISP provided local loop terminating equipment to the FSL High Speed Serial Interface on the FSL provided Cisco 7507 router (this is only to provide the part number, not the part); 4) The selected ISP shall exercise 24 hour per day, 365 days per year monitoring of their network and any circuits provided under this contract. The selected ISP shall perform continuous monitoring of the FSL T-3 circuit from the ISP Network Operations Center (NOC). To be considered as a qualified ISP contractor, the following pass/fail capabilities are required: 1) Be a national tier-1 ISP having an existing and operational nationwide backbone network connecting major metropolitan areas in the U.S. at data rates of 44.736 Mbps or greater; 2) Operate an ISP POP in the Denver/Boulder metropolitan area with operational links of 44.736 Mbps or greater bandwidth from their Denver/Boulder POP to at least two POPs in other metropolitan areas; 3) Have direct T-3 or faster connections to the major Network Access Points (NAPs) in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles,and San Francisco, including MAE-East and MAE-West; 4) Offer TCP/IP routing to multiple networks and Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) via a single customer access port and associated circuit; 5) Offer IP Multicast (MBONE) routing when customer requests such service. Posted 05/14/99 (D-SN331610). (0134)

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