IAAS Draft J-Workbook 20251020.xlsx

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2) Instructions - Contractors

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Pre-Award Instructions for Completing Each Column Contractor shall price all CLINs from this Pricing Workbook in Tab 4 regardless of if the "Traffic Indicator" columns indicate "Yes" or "No", regardless if the quantity is zero or higher.

Tab 4 "Base + OPs - BASE SVCS": for Base services The quantities are the agency's best estimates at time of Solicitation and are not a guarantee of future requirements: actual quantities ordered for optional CLINs and/or option periods may vary during the TO performance period. CLINs, Quantities and Periods are not guaranteed and are subject to change.

Current Services & Optional CLINs: identifies if the Service CLINs are in current inventory or if these CLINs are new to exercise in Base Period or in future 12 Optional periods of performance and 6 months extension.

- "Current " - VA currently has these services and features in inventory. These services and CLINs might be purchased in Base period. Traffic Indicator indicates "YES" if required, and "NO" if optional.

- "Optional" - Not in current monthly inventory. VA might purchase these services and CLINs in Base period or / and in the future periods. Traffic Indicator with "yes" provides the timeframe when these CLINs might be purchased.

"Unique ID": groups services, features, and access arrangements by NSC for agency's tracking Frequency: corresponds to EIS CLINs, except for "NRC" CLINs with charge type based on # occurrences and instances. These "NRC" CLINs are changed to "OCCURRENCE" frequency for accuracy reflection of the task order values.

EIS Services: groups services, corresponding features, and Access Arrangements in Bundled Services.

Task Order Unique Description / Notes: Optional Field - if the agency has Task Order Unique CLINs. This column is also being used for additional description of the requested CLIN or Equipment type.

Case Numbers: Optional Field - to be generated by the Contractor when creating the pricing model for TUC CLINs. NOTE: VA requires that case numbers must not contain any spaces.

Catalog Class ID - Optional Field - To be provided by the Contractor when submitting price quote if Catalog pricing is included in the quote.

Traffic Indicator- "Yes" as intended to purchase and "No" as optional to purchase by Agency.

Quantity - Required quantities of services. Must be >0 in order to calculate price. Estimated Quantities might change.

EIS Unit Price - Contractor to provide EIS unit price for the services required in each line and each Task Order Period. Regardless if the Task Order is annual or six months, the Unit Price shall be Price per Unit per Month or per Instance.

Extended Price - Calculated field. Do not edit.

Quantity, Unit Price and Extended Price for Base Period and Subsequent Option Periods - Contractor to provide EIS unit price services required in each line for the subsequent option periods.

3) SUMMARY $ - BASE

UNITED STATES DEPARMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS - IAAS TASK ORDER

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4) BASE + OPs - BASE SVCS

6) Glosssary of Terms

Glossary of Terms

Agency Hierarchy Code (AHC) - A unique 20-character internal government accounting code that must be tracked for all services from order submission through disconnection.

Area of World (AOW) - AOW IDs shall be used in pricing tables that allow for adjustments based on their OCONUS and Non-Domestic locations. The AOW IDs are included in the NSC Crosswalk Table.

Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) - Metropolitan and Micropolitan geographic entities delineated by OMB for use in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics.

Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) - A unique number used to identify billable items; a term used to describe an item that can have a single unit price; a contract line item must be identified separately from any other items or services on the contract.

CONUS - The 48 contiguous United States plus the District of Columbia.

Country/Jurisdiction ID - The Country/Jurisdiction IDs shall be used in pricing tables that require identification of the origination and/or destination country/jurisdiction. The country/jurisdiction IDs can be found in section B.4.2 of the EIS Solicitation Section B.

Federal Agency - In FAR definition, means any executive agency or independent establishment in the legislative or judicial branch of the government (except the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Architect of the Capitol, and any other activities under the Architect's direction).

Monthly Recurring Charge (MRC) - A fixed charge paid monthly.

Network Site Code - identifies a physical location, a customer agency building, Physical Concentration Location, and/or Point of Presence. An address is required for each NSC. GSA and EIS contractors will maintain an NSC database to ensure that every government location is associated with a single NSC identifier even where multiple addresses may refer to the same location. This allows services delivered to the government to be priced for each specific location using a unique NSC identifier represented by eight-character Common Language Location Identifier (CLLI) codes.

Non-recurring Charge (NRC) - A cost for a facility, service, or product that only occurs one time or is not periodically charged.

Not Separately Priced (NSP) - A capability or feature that is included in the price of the basic service.

OCONUS - U.S. territories and possessions outside of the contiguous 48 states. It includes Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, Midway Island, Palau, Wake Island, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) and Micronesia.

Physical Concentration Location (PCL) – any place connections (e.g., copper wire, fiber and coax) are aggregated (e.g., POPs, carrier hotels, cable heads, and Serving Wire Centers (SWCs)). PCLs may refer to the access side of the service or to the network side. For pricing purposes, the PCL is identified by the NSC.

Point of Presence (POP) – contractor-owned or -controlled physical location where network facilities provide EIS services and where access from a user agency’s location is connected to the network. For pricing purposes, the POP is identified by the NSC.

Pricing Hub (PHub) – used to assign a unique identifier to locations with the same price for the same access service type. This PHub ID is used only for pricing purposes and is independent of the physical network. The contractor selects and assigns a PHub ID to a set of prices by access type (i.e., by bandwidth).

Service Type - Describe a group of individual services that are similar and are grouped to simplify specification, offering and evaluation processes. Within each Service Type, individual service are specified. In EIS, there are twelve (12) Service Types as follows:

1) Data Service. Includes services such as VPNS, Ethernet, Optical Wavelength Service, Private Line, SONET, Dark Fiber and Internet Protocol Service.

2) Voice Service. Includes services such as IPVS, CSVS, Toll Free and CSDS.

3) Contact Center Service

4) Collocated Hosting Service

5) Cloud Service. Includes services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Platform as a service (PAAS), Software as a Service (SAAS) and Content Delivery Network Services.

6) Wireless Service

7) Commercial Satellite Service

8) Managed Services. Includes services such as Managed Network Service, Web Conferencing Service, Unified Communication Service, Integrated Performance Monitoring Service, MTIPS, Managed Security Services, Managed Mobility Service, Audio Conferencing, Video Teleconferencing and Intrusion Prevention Security Service.

9) Access Arrangements

10) Service Relating Equipment

11) Service Related Labor

12) Cable and Wiring

Sub-Agency - A subsidiary billing entity as defined by the parent agency and identified by an Agency Hierarchy Code.

Traffic Model - A representation of traffic. A model of 5-year estimated traffic to be used in preparation and evaluation of IGCEs and Section B of the RFQ.

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