Defense Supply Service-Washington, 5200 Army Pentagon, Rm. 1D245, Washington, DC 20310-5200

D -- OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR FORT BELVOIR DUE 010307 POC Contract Specialist Ms. Sally Williams, telephone (703) 695-8650; Contracting Officer Ms. Ruth Kelly, Contracting Officer (703) 614-2106 E-MAIL: willism@hqda.army.mil, willism@hqda.army.mil. The Defense Supply Service-Washington (DSS-W) on behalf of the Defense Telecommunications Service-Washington (DTS-W) intends to award an interim non-competitive contract to Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida, to allow the transition to the competitively awarded DISN NCR MAN contract. The contract services are for operations and maintenance in support of a telecommunications system for Fort Belvoir to include total performance responsibility for the system and related services, with the exception of Fort Belvoir 300 Area. The Fort Belvoir system includes the design, engineering, furnishing, installation, provisioning, testing, maintenance, and operations of all telecommunications services provided by the Northern Telecom MSL-100 switch, remote switching modules (RSM), the ITN SONET backbone network, and managing the Systems Management Center (SMC) using the Netplus telephone/telecommunications system requirements during the contract life and service order and billing services as required under the contract. The contractor shall also be responsible for the basic switching equipment, distribution frames, attendant/operator consoles, subscriber line circuit equipment, premise wire/distribution and outside cable distribution plant (includes aerial cable, direct buried cable, cable within manholes, ducting & conduit), transmission equipment, station equipment, special non-switched private line circuit equipment, reserve power equipment, and all other ancillary equipment necessary to provide a total telecommunications system and related services. Additionally, the contractor may be responsible for the engineering, furnishing, installation and testing of all new LANs. The switched services currently provided under the current contract are necessary to allow dial-up voice and data exchange among DoD users. These services connect to approximately 17,000 users. The proposed contract action is for a base year of twelve months and two six-month options. The proposed contract action is for supplies and services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received within forty-five days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. See Note 22. Posted 01/18/00 (W-SN416727). (0018)

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