United States Air Force, Air Education and Training Command, Luke AFB Contracting Squadron, 14100 W. Eagle Street, Luke AFB, AZ, 85309

D -- TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD OPERATIONS & BASE LOCATOR SERVICES SOL F0260499R0017 DUE 082599 POC Ken Barborak, Contract Specialist, Phone 623) 856-3446 x256, Fax (623) 856-3448, Email ken.barborak@luke.af.mil -- Anthony McGraw, Contracts Flight Commander 56CONS/LGCC, Phone 623 856-3441, Fax 623 856-3438, Email WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&;ProjID=F0260499R0017 &LocID=509. E-MAIL: Ken Barborak, ken.barborak@luke.af.mil. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment (except as identified on the Government provided equipment list), tools, materials supervision, and all other items or services necessary to perform telephone switchboard operations and base locator duties at the 56th Communications Squadron Telephone Switchboard, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. The Telephone Switchboard, at Luke Air Force Base, will be manned 24 hours a day 7 days a week in accordance with the Statement of Work. The contract will include a base year from 01 Oct 99 -- 30 Sep 00 and four (4) subsequent pre-priced 1 year options. The resultant contract will be a firm fixed-priced. The applicable Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this acquisition 7389 with a three-year average annual small business size standard of $5,000,000. The magnitude of this contract for all five years is $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. This acquisition is a small business set aside. The successful contractor will be selected using performance/price trade-off procedures in accordance with FAR 15.101-1, resulting in the Best Value to the Government. Performance is significantly more important than price. Recent, relevant, past and present performance information is requested not later than two weeks prior to the closing date for receipt of proposals. (Recent, relevant, past and present performance is defined as performance of the same or similar type of work within the past three years.) It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued electronically o/a 24 Jul 99 on the Government's Electronic Posting System (EPS) at www.eps.gov. Paper copies will not be available. You must register in order to receive notification of changes to the solicitation. Note: Any prospective contractor must be registered in the Central Contract Registration (CCR) in order to be eligible for award. Registration requires applicants to have a DUNS number. Registering may take up to three weeks to process. Recommend registering immediately in order to be eligible for timely award. Posted 07/12/99 (D-SN352946). (0193)

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