90 CS Long Range Ethernet with High Speed Ethernet over Copper System Replacement
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Solicitation Number: FA461323Q0009 Purchase Description: 90 CS Long Range Ethernet with High-Speed Ethernet Over Copper System Replacement This is a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Notice for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation/notice; responses/quotes are being requested, further written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation will be posted to the SAM.gov as a Total Small Business Set Aside. The 90th Contracting Squadron is issuing this combined synopsis/solicitation, FA461323Q0009, as a Request for Quote using FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Item, & FAR Part 13, Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 238210, with a small business standard of $16.5M. The Government intends to award a Firm Fixed-Price Commercial Award. The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect tough the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2023-02 effective 16 March 2023, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) effective 22 March 2023 and Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS) effective 01 March 2023. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE: The contractor shall provide all management, tools, materials, supplies, equipment, and labor necessary to perform the replacement of the Long Range Ethernet over Copper System with a new Long Range Ethernet over Copper System at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The contractor shall install, configure, and demonstrate the operations of a new Long Range Ethernet over Copper System and remove and dispose of the current Long Range Ethernet over Copper System. The contractor will be responsible for any other work as defined in Attachment 2 - Performance Work Statement (PWS) CLIN STRUCTURE: CLIN 0001 : Provide all materials, equipment, installation hardware, software, and any other items necessary to perform the replacement services of the long range ethernet over copper system with a new long range ethernet with high-speed ethernet over copper system at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base IAW the performance work statement. Required to provide a breakout of the prices for this CLIN. Quantity: 1 Unit of Issue: Job Unit Price: $_____________ Extended Price (Quantity X Unit Price): $________________ CLIN 0002 : Provide all management, labor, and travel necessary to perform the replacement services of the long range ethernet over copper system with a new long range ethernet with high-speed ethernet over copper system at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base IAW the performance work statement. Quantity: 1 Unit of Issue: Job Unit Price: $_____________ Extended Price (Quantity X Unit Price): $________________ All CLIN's F.O.B. Destination. Offerors shall comply with the following additional quote criteria: A statement that your company understands and will meet the requirements specified in the Performance Work Statement (PWS). Equipment Required is the Actelis Networks ML2300 system brand name or equal with the following salient characteristics: 2- Service Data Unit (SDU) 450 3- Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) 64 with power rectifier 41- Mean Length (ML) 624i Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) Four Rack Unit (RU) high 6 slot environmentally hardened platform Supports 32 to 256 copper pairs (64 pairs/RU) and up to 128 customers (links) per chassis Interface slots must be equipped with up to two SDU (control, switching and aggregation) module cards for redundancy Allow carriers to offer higher bandwidth per pair and longer reach per service in real world environments along with the most stable and reliable transmission Aggregation switches must offer advanced clock transmission mechanism to ensure best clock accuracy and reliability over copper or fiber networks Easy integration into existing carrier/enterprise networks Supporting advanced Ethernet features along with comprehensive spectral compliance DSL Quad Cables Past experience with like-kind projects. Include summary of project and point of contact. Complete Attachment 6 – Offeror Quote Supplement and include with quote submission. Offeror may utilize their own documentation as long as it contains all the required information. Failure to provide all required information will result in the offer being deemed ineligible for award. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Start date shall be 90 calendar days or less after award date and shall be completed 5 business days or less after start date. Any contractor concerns with the period of performance shall be submitted by e-mail to seth.johnson.27@us.af.mil and trisha.lamarr@us.af.mil and shall include the contractor’s proposed period of performance and the justification to support it. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: Francis E. Warren AFB, WY 82005 INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS: Offerors shall comply with FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Products and Commercial Services. EVALUATION: ADDENDUM TO FAR 52-212-2 EVALUATION—COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT2014) Paragraph (a) is hereby replaced with the following: The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price, and other factors considered. The following factor(s) shall be used to evaluate offers: I. Price II. Material Technical Specifications III. Past Experience Evaluation of price shall be the sum of all line items. Material technical specifications must meet the requirements identified in the PWS and references. Material will receive a rating of “Acceptable” if they meet the requirements identified in the PWS and references or will receive a rating of “Unacceptable.” Past experience will be evaluated based on the completion of one (1) like-kind project. The “like-kind” project shall include work similar to the install, configuration, and demonstration of a long range ethernet over copper system and any other work as identified in the PWS. The government shall determine if the past experience provided qualifies as a like-kind project. Past experience will receive a rating of “Acceptable” if the government determines that the past experience qualifies as a like-kind project or “Unacceptable” if the government determines the past experience does not qualify as a like-kind project. If there is no past experience the offeror will receive a rating of “Unacceptable.” Technical and past performance, when combined, are approximately equal to cost or price. OTHER INFORMATION: Per FAR Subpart 4.1102, offerors are required to be registered in System for Award Management (SAM) at time of submission of quote. Failure to do so will result in the offer being deemed ineligible for award. SITE VISIT: A site survey will take place on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 and will begin at 0900 (Mountain Daylight Time). Interested parties need to provide notice of interest by e-mail to seth.johnson.27@us.af.mil and trisha.lamarr@us.af.mil by Monday, April 10, 2023, by 0900 (Mountain Daylight Time). QUESTIONS AND QUOTES: Questions shall be sent by e-mail to seth.johnson.27@us.af.mil and trisha.lamarr@us.af.mil by Thursday, April 13, 2023; by 1100 (Mountain Daylight Time). Responses/quotes MUST be received no later than Monday, April 24, 2023; by 0900 (Mountain Daylight Time). Forward responses by e-mail to seth.johnson.27@us.af.mil and trisha.lamarr@us.af.mil. LIST OF ATTACHMENTS: Attachment 1 – Solicitation FA461323Q0009 Attachment 2 – Performance Work Statement Attachment 3 – Wage Determination Attachment 4 – Site Visit Agenda Attachment 5 – FEW DVES Virtual Pass Procedures Attachment 6 – Offeror Quote Supplement Form FA461323Q0009 Department of the Air Force Global Strike Command
3/31/23, 3:51 PM 90 CS Long Range Ethernet with High Speed Ethernet over Copper System Replacement
Sources Sought / Request for Information Notice Number: FA461323Q1010 Description: 90 CS Pairgain Long Range Ethernet Replacement THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OR FOLLOW ON RESPONSES. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. The 90th Contracting Squadron is issuing this sources sought announcement, FA461323Q1010, for work at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (FE Warren AFB), Wyoming. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 238210, Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors, with a small business standard of $16.5M is to be used for market analysis only to determine the availability of potential small business categories for potential set-asides. No award will be made from this sources sought announcement. No solicitation is available at this time. All responses will be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for the future requirement. Based on the responses to this sources sought/request for information notice the requirement may be set aside for small businesses or procured tough full and open competition. All small business set-aside categories will be considered. FE Warren AFB is conducting market research to identify potential sources that have the ability to meet the requirement in Attachment 1 – Performance Work Statement. All services will be performed on FE Warren AFB. Requirement Includes: Contractor to provide a Long Range Ethernet over Copper System replacement and install/configure for FE Warren AFB, WY IAW Attachment 1 – Performance Work Statement. Equipment Required is the Actelis Networks ML2300 system brand name or equal with the following salient characteristics: 2- Service Data Unit (SDU) 450 3- Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) 64 with power rectifier 41- Mean Length (ML) 624i Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) Four Rack Unit (RU) high 6 slot environmentally hardened platform Supports 32 to 256 copper pairs (64 pairs/RU) and up to 128 customers (links) per chassis Interface slots must be equipped with up to two SDU (control, switching and aggregation) module cards for redundancy Allow carriers to offer higher bandwidth per pair and longer reach per service in real world environments along with the most stable and reliable transmission Aggregation switches must offer advanced clock transmission mechanism to ensure best clock accuracy and reliability over copper or fiber networks Easy integration into existing carrier/enterprise networks Supporting advanced Ethernet features along with comprehensive spectral compliance DSL Quad Cables All interested parties are invited to send a capability statement that will briefly describe how your company can satisfy the requirement described above, provide comments on the attached draft Performance Work Statement, and to submit any questions they may have regarding the requirement. All comments and questions need to be submitted electronically via email. Please ensure your capability statement includes: Years of experience your company has for this requirement or similar in nature All pertinent Information where your company has provided these services Statement that you have the capability to provide ALL requirements stated within the PWS Any questions that your company has regarding the PWS and/or this notice In addition to the capability statement, please provide: Company Name (as registered in SAM.gov) Cage Code Number and Unique Entity ID Mailing address Point of Contact to include phone/fax number and email, and website State whether your company is a large or small business, 8(a), VOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone small business, SDB, and WOSB, etc. State if your company is registered with SAM.gov under NAICS 238210 If you have a GSA Contract #, please list this in your response to include if your service is listed on the GSA Schedule THIS IS A NOTICE FOR MARKET RESEARCH ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTATION, PROPOSAL, OR INVITATION FOR BID. All communication regarding this notice shall be in writing, reference “90 CS Pairgain Long Range Ethernet Replacement,” and be sent electronically to the following email addresses: seth.johnson.27@us.af.mil and trisha.lamarr@us.af.mil . NO PHONE INQUIRIES. Responses MUST be received no later than Thursday, March 16, 2023; by 1000 (Mountain Standard Time). FA461323Q1010 Department of the Air Force Global Strike Command
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