USDI, Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, NV 89520-0006

D -- CELLULAR PHONES AND SERVICES SOL FAI000052 DUE 020400 POC Ms. Michele Fugitt, Contracting Officer, (775)861-6420, (775)861-6634(fax) E-MAIL: This is the Contracting Officer at this location, mfugitt@nv.blm.gov. Sources Sought: Comments from Industry: Non-personal service to firnish all personnel, equiopment, facilities, supplies, services and materials for USDI, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada locations cellular phone service. This requirement will be for approximately 258 cellular phones and additional phones as required. The contract period will be for twelve months from date of award. This is a Sources Sought/ Comments from Industry request only. The resulting Request for Quotations will be for a commercial item requirement prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulations subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. Standard Industrial Classification code is 4812. The provisions at F.A.R. 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items; 52.212-2 Evaluation -- Commercial Items; 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, and 52.212.5 Contract Terms and conditions requjired to implement statutes or executiveorders -- Commercial Items, apply to this procurement requirement and have been tailored to add Y2K compliance: Y2K compliance is mandatoryh, no exceptions. All information technology is required to be year 2000 compliant. The Government's definition of Y2K compliant is: with respect to information technology that the information technology accurately processes date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating,comparing, and sequencing from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap yhear calculations, to the extent that other information technology, used in combination with the information technology being acquired, properly exchanges date/time data with it. Past performance and pricing will be used to make a best value award decision. Inputs, questions, and comments are due no later than 2/4/00 by 4 pm Pacific Time at USDI Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, Attn Michele Fugitt, Contracting Officer, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, NV 89502 or faxed to (775)861-6634, or emailed to mfugitt@nv.blm.gov. QUESTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS: Coverages, local versus long distance coverage, information on the geographic areas that are covered, New Phones: types of phones available, accessories, i.e., batteries, cases, car adaptors. Services: Roaming charges included, options for phones with no roaming charges throughout U.S., ooptions for phones with no long distance charges throughout U.S., options for phones with limited coverage, Nevada only, Western states only, analog or digital service available, individual value-added services available, i.e., voice mail, text paging, internet access. Existing phones: Can you transfer current government owned phones to your system? Are they compatible with other systems? Can you wumarize cellular phone usage by group of government users? Will you honor the government credit card for payment? Make all contacts to USDI Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, Attn Michele Fugitt, P.O. Box 12000, Reno, NV 89520, or fax to (775)861-6634 or email to mfugitt@nv.blm.gov no later than 4 pm Pacific Time February 4, 2000. Posted 01/14/00 (W-SN416201). (0014)

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