Western Regional Contracting Office, 9933 West Johnson Street, Madigan Army Medical CTR Annex, Tacoma WA 98431

36 -- LEASE OF ALPHANUMERIC PAGERS SOL DADA13-99-R-0008 DUE 100499 POC Ruth D. Richmond, Contract Specialist at (253) 968-4912 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation number DADA13-99-R-0008 applies and is issued as a Request for Proposals (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-13. The solicitation is issued as unrestricted with a SIC of 3669 and a size standard of 500 employees. The term of the contract shall be one year with 4 Option years, 1 Oct 1999 (or date of award if subsequent thereto) through 30 Sep 2000-Base represented as CLIN 0001, 4 consecutive option years each beginning 1 Oct and ending 30 Sep of the respective year (CLINs 0002 through 0005, which replicate CLIN 0001). CLIN 0001: Provide 1300 each alphanumeric pagers on a leased per month basis, to Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC), Tacoma, Washington to include services in accordance with the following minimum specifications. 1. The Contractor shall provide on a lease basis 10 paging keyboards with all necessary software to implement activation of the leased alphanumeric pagers with a minimum of a 120-word message. 2. The contractor shall install a paging transmitter at MAMC in a location which will be designated at time of award. The contractor shall connect the transmitter to MAMC's internal coax system at no additional cost to the Government, within 7 days of contract award. The contractor shall coordinate with the MAMC Medical Maintenance Section prior to beginning installation. The pager transmitter shall not transmit in the range of 192-05- 198.0 MHz or cause harmonics that affect this range. The power output of the signal that is transmitted into the MAMC leaky coax system shall be adjustable ensuring that sensitive medical equipment is not affected by the power of the signal.The contractor shall test coverage inside the main facility listing any problems needing correction by MAMC, and recommendations for accomplishing the corrections. The contractor shall provide a copy of the list to the MAMC Medical Maintenance Section. In the event of expiration or termination of this contract, the contractor shall remove the transmitter, antennae and all cable connections and restore the area to its original condition, unless other arrangements are negotiated. 3. The contractor's alphanumeric pagers shall accommodate activating an alphanumeric page via e-mail, a web page, or paging keyboards. The contractor's pagers shall also be capable of activation for numeric pages via a local Tacoma phone number. 4. The contractor shall provide an account manager familiar with the MAMC account to serve as a primary resource for MAMC representatives. 5. The contractor shall provide local access to 24-hour by 7 day customer assistance for the purpose of reporting paging problems and/or technical support. The contractor shall respond to reported trouble calls within 4 hours. 6. The contractor shall provide, at the Government's request, invoices and paging history in electronic form. 7. The Contractor shall provide replacement pagers for lost, damaged or faulty pagers. Replacement pagers shall be provided to the Government within 5 business days of the date the Contractor is notified, with shipping pre-paid in both directions. The contractor shall be capable of assigning user's numbers and activation of preprogrammed pagers 24-hours per day 7 days per week, if required. 8. Acceptable pagers shall have the capability of being temporarily reprogrammed to extend or change the range of the service area, to accommodate personnel in temporary duty locations. The pagers shall be capable of servicing the following locations as a minimum: Bellingham, WA (113 Miles N. of Ft. Lewis); Port Angeles, WA (85 Miles N.-N.W. of Ft. Lewis); Seaside, OR (100 Miles S.W. of Ft. Lewis); Eugene, OR (212 Miles S. of Ft. Lewis); Spokane, WA (246 Miles E. of Ft. Lewis); Wenatchee, WA (108 Miles E.-N.E. of Ft. Lewis) and Yakima, WA (104 Miles E.-S.E. of Ft. Lewis). 9. MAMC's home coverage area shall include, but not be limited to, the locations listed above. A preaward demonstration of the required coverage area may be required. 10. The contractor shall provide a fully redundant system that is not dependent on a single satellite for paging service in the MAMC home area. The system shall be capable of transitioning to a backup system within one (1) hour of any primary system failure. The access number for each pager shall remain the same for both the primary and backup systems. 11. The contractor shall provide 24-hour by 7-day monitoring of the paging network, transmitters, satellites, and any other device on which the paging system depends. 12. The vendor shall be able to prove a minimum of a 99 per cent paging system availability for the previous 2 years. 13. The contractor shall contact the MAMC COR in the event of a current or future system failure, upon becoming aware that a problem exists. The contractor's local representative shall maintain periodic contact until the problem is resolved. 14. The contractor shall not make changes to paging service unless authorized by the COR. Requested changes that may incur additional costs shall not be made without prior approval of the Contracting Officer. 15. The contractor shall provide a coverage map of the home area. Areas with potential reception problems shall be annotated and proposed resolutions for actual problems outlined and discussed with MAMC staff. 16. The contractor shall be responsible for system training and distribution of pagers to MAMC personnel. The COR will provide the contractor's representative with a distribution plan and proposed schedule not later than 10 days after the date of award. 17. The contractor shall be capable of providing, upon the Government's request, pagers that will guarantee reception of the page. 18. The system shall support the activation of multiple pagers from a single number (group page). Provisions 52,212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items, and 52.212-2, Evaluation -Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The following factors are included in FAR 52.212-2(a) and will be used to evaluate offers: Technical capability, Past Performance and Price. Technical Capability and Past Performance when combined are significantly more important than price. Offerors shall submit as part of their proposal completed copies of the provisions at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, DFARS 252.212-7000, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items. FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition and includes the following addenda: FAR 52.232-18, which applies to the base and option years; DFARS 52.235-7003; 52.217-9, (a) notice to the contractor at least 30 calendar days prior to expiration, (c) 60 months; 52.222-48. FAR Clause 52.212-5, Contract terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The following clauses within 52.212- 5(b) are incorporated into this contract by reference as applying to this acquisition: 52.203-6; 52.219-4; 52.219-8; 52.219-9; 52.219-25; 52.219-26; 52.222-21; 52.222-26; 52.222-35; 52.222-36; 52.222-37; and 52.232-33. DFARS clause 252.212-7001, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commercial Items (NOV 1995) applies to this acquisition. The following clauses within 252.212-7001 (b) are incorporated in this contract by reference as applying to this acquisition. 52.205-7000; 252.219-7003; 252.243-7002 and 252.247-7024. The complete text of any or all of the clauses and provisions effective on the date of the latest Federal/Defense Acquisition Circular is also available electronically from the following World Wide Web (WWW) Home Pages. General Services Administration, http://www.arnet.gov.far; DoD Electronic Commerce Office, http://farcite.hill.af.mil/; and Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), http//www.dtic.mil/dfars. SOFTWARE LICENSING -- If performance under this contract requires the use of copyrighted or proprietary software, any proposed software license agreement shall be submitted with the offeror's proposal. Failure to submit a proposed licensing agreement will result in the Government's presumption that no licensing agreement is required or that the software proposed is wholly within the public domain. Additionally, the contractor shall ensure products provided under this contract to include hard, software, firmware and middleware, whether acting alone or combined as a system are Year 2000 compliant as defined in FAR Part 39. FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION- The RFP and written technical proposal may be submitted via facsimile to (253) 968-4922. Receiving equipment is a variable speed Canon L770, or e-mail to ruth.richmond@nw.amedd.army.mil, NLT 10/04/99 at 1400 hours PT. Hard copies should be sent to Western Regional Contracting Office, MCAA-W, BLDG 9902, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA 98431-1110. For information regarding this procurement, contact Ruth D. Richmond at (253)968-4912. Posted 09/21/99 (W-SN382883). (0264)

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