U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Procurement And Contracts Branch, Mail Stop O-20, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Virginia 22312

D -- FDDI DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICE SOL SECHQ1-00-R-0021 POC Debra Chapman, Contract Specialist (202) 942-4994 The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to purchase commercial off-the-shelf supplies and services for a fully functional dedicated dual-ring fiber distributed data interchange (FDDI) network. The services are to be supplied between two SEC computer facilities located in Alexandria, Virginia and in Washington, DC. The two locations are geographically 10 miles apart and interconnected by a fiber network (FDDI). Data is transferred at a rate of 100 megabits/second. Fiber Distributed Data Interchange (FDDI), developed by Technical Committee X3T9, Task Group 5, of the Accredited Standards Committee (chartered by the American Nation Standards Institute), is the protocol. The contract will be fixed price with a base year and four option years. The solicitation has two CLINS in each contract year: CLIN 1 FDDI service- 2 dual attach concentrators, and Optional CLIN 2 FDDI service -- 2 additional dual attach concentrators for redundancy. The incumbent contractor is Bell Atlantic Federal Systems, 1710 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Posted 05/03/00 (W-SN450836). (0124)

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