DITCO Alaska Field Office, 10441 Kuter Avenue, Suite 209, Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-2615

D -- DISA ALASKA TELECOMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS POC Contact: Shirley Ronningen, Contracting Officer, (907) 552-3132 This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued solely for information and planning purposes -- - it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP). The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is requesting information to assess technical solutions and acquisition approaches for providing competitive telecommunication services to DoD installations in Alaska. These services include providing diverse path dedicated fiber transmission between Anchorage AK and Alaska military locations including Clear Air Force Base (AFB) and Ft. Wainwright. Services include special HEMP hardening protection at selected equipment locations, installation of new fiber and on site installation and wiring services. Service availability is projected to be mid to late 2003. An Indefinite Quantity, Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) contract vehicle is planned for award. DISA intends to host an industry day on May 16, 2000 to discuss this project. Contractors who are interested in attending this industry day are requested to provide visit notification to the Contracting Officer, Ms. Shirley Ronningen, via email at ronnings@elmendorf.disa.mil. Please include with your visit notice any questions you may have about this project so we may provide a response during the session. Please note that this meeting will be conducted on an unclassified basis. In order to ensure adequate space is available, please provide your notice no later than by May 12, 2000. Companies are requested to limit their attendees to three employees. E-mail confirmations will provide the conference room location and proposed agenda. On May 17-18 DISA will host discussions with individual companies to discuss the following specific questions about this project. Interested contractors are requested to provide written responses to the following questions concerning their resources and capabilities to provide DISA Alaska telecommunication services: (1) Describe your capabilities to provide telecommunication services within Alaska. In response to the following questions, please note those items that you could perform. Identify whether your company is a large business, small business, small disadvantaged, 8A or women-owned company; (2) DISA is interested in long term (twenty years or more) lease of fiber to service military sites in Alaska. DISA also will require HEMP hardening of certain network infrastructure. Please describe your ownership of existing fiber in Alaska. Also please describe your lease (reseller) capabilities in light of providing these requirements; (3) Please describe your capabilities by describing specific locations your company services. Specify your existing FCC licenses to provide this service. Also describe your capabilities and arrangements to team or cross-connect with other companies that provide CONUS or other submarine fiber optic cable connectivity; (4) Please describe your time phased plans to expand Alaska connectivity over the next five years; (5) Does your company presently have any available dark fiber servicing Alaska? Please provide specificdetail on this availability including any available pricing information; (6) Does your company provide support services to military sites in Alaska such as Clear AFB, Elmendorf AFB and Ft. Wainwright? These services might include inside wiring, on-site construction, equipment maintenance services, and LAN/WAN operations. Please describe these projects and provide a Government point of contact that would be familiar with your support; (7) The Government is interested in any suggestions or lessons learned from your installation of fiber transmission in Alaska; (8) The Government is also interested in recommendations on how to ensure that any unique fiber installations be able to withstand long term exposure to arctic and sub-arctic environmental conditions. In your response please comment on recommended techniques and safeguards that would help guarantee service availability. These comments should include identification of appropriate construction standards and codes to be utilized; (9) Please comment on your experience and ability to coordinate necessary environmental and other work permits in Alaska; (10) The Government may require hardening of network infrastructure to protect against High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) environments. Please address your ability and plans for providing HEMP protection to both new and potentially existing fiber transmission routes and facilities (refer to MILSTD 188-125-1); (11) If HEMP protection is required, the Government will require a HEMP maintenance and HEMP surveillance (HM/HS) program. The Government is considering the use of an automated HM/HS system that includes the periodic use of low level electromagnetic radiation of the HEMP hardening equipment. Will you be able to accommodate this HM/HS approach? Do you have any suggested alternate approaches?; (12) Please address your facility clearance, storage of classified materials and personnel security levels that may be necessary to provide services under this project; (13) Describe how you would provide network management services for this project. Network management includes performance and fault management services to include automatic real-time detection, reporting, isolation, correction, and prevention of faults affecting services. Network management services also include configuration management, trouble administration and security management. Please identify any limitations that may exist in providing these services; (14) Please describe how you provide timing and synchronization of your network. What will be the proposed primary reference sources (both GPS and non-GPS) and holdover oscillator capabilities? Do you foresee any difficulties with integrating and implementing timing of your network with the DISN or other affiliated networks or sub-networks? DISA is seeking the above information for planning purposes only in preparing the draft DISA Alaska Communication Services RFP. Information should be submitted in the form of a "white paper," limited to no more than 75 pages in length. Additional informational brochures or annual reports are welcome. Any material submitted, including the white paper, will not be returned. Please respond to each question on a separate page with appropriate references. Interested parties shall submit responses (excluding brochures) electronically via CD-ROM or 3.5" diskette in IBM PC readable format and with 10 hard copies. The preferred word processor format is Microsoft Word 7.0. If brochures or reports are to be submitted, respondents should provide 10 copies of any materials. Please provide this material to Contracting Officer Shirley Ronningen, DITCO Alaska Field Office, 10441 Kuter Ave, Suite 209, Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-2615. DISA intends to distribute the responses to this RFI within DISA for review purposes. Accordingly, respondents shall clearly identify sensitive or proprietary material. DISA reserves the right to contact vendors to provide clarifications on capabilities or to ask questions. DISA shall not assume any expenses incurred by any of the respondents to this RFI. Sources submitting a white paper who are interested in also making a maximum two-hour presentation between May 17-18,2000 at DITCO Alaska may arrange to do so by contacting the Contracting Officer, Ms. Shirley Ronningen, via email at ronnings@elmendorf.disa.mil. Responses to the RFI shall be submitted no later than May 12, 2000. Posted 05/01/00 (W-SN450140). (0122)

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