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* = Required Field FedBizOpps Sources Sought Notice Rev. March 2010 R Infrastructure Telecommunications Logistics 20001 36C10F18Q0674 06-22-2018 N 541614 Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Construction and Facilities Management (003CB4) 425 I Street, NW Washington DC 20001 Tammiko Newell Contract Specialist 202-632-5111 tammiko.newell@va.gov tammiko.newell@va.gov The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Seeks Expressions of Interest from contractors that can provide standard specifications for facilities requiring cabling installation and moves, adds and changes or Telecommunication Equipment.

Notice: This is not a solicitation for offers, nor is it a request for proposals. The Government will not pay for any costs incurred as a result of this Notice. Respondents are advised that the Government assumes no responsibility to award based on responses to this notice.

Background:

The Department of Veterans Affairs Infrastructure Management Group primary responsibility is the installation and maintenance of all Horizontal, Vertical and VA owned Cable Plant cabling (copper & fiber) to support Telecommunications/LAN closets, VTC, work area outlets and CATV outlets at the Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO). These tasks encompass all on-site and off-site facilities in the Washington, DC Metro Area totaling 18 buildings, 12,000 communications outlets, 1548 multi-mode and 84 single mode Fiber Optic strands to date. CATV programming is provided to various buildings via fiber from VACO, two other facilities have their own head end distribution.

Brief Description:

Contractor shall install or relocate data circuits, voice circuits and coaxial or any combination thereof to each user outlet as a standard configuration. The data circuits are provided via Category 6 cables and voice circuits via Category 5e to each outlet. Horizontal data cables shall be terminated on rack-mounted Category 6 patch panels. contractor will furnish and install a complete telecommunications system supporting voice, video and data. specification.

Information Requested:

This source sought notice is for market research purposes in accordance with Federal Acquisition. Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses and Veteran Owned Businesses are encouraged to respond. All firms responding to this Sources Sought notice are advised that their response to this notice is not a request that will be considered for contract award. Firms interested in submitting their capabilities must include the following information in the cover letter/introduction: (1) Company name, address, point of contact with phone number and e-mail address; (2) Business size determination and qualifying small business status. Please limit responses to fifteen (15) pages. The Contractor capability statement shall include, but not be limited, to the following:

1). Design Build Experience:

· Provide at least three (3) projects within the past five (5) years that demonstrate experience in logistic services to include telecommunications in accordance with Telecommunications Industry Standards and Building Industry Consulting Service. Provide projects over $1,000,000.00.

2). Corporate Experience:

· Provide a potential team composition for this type of project and the associated tasks and responsibilities for each team member.

· Provide a description of your company’s Quality Control Method/Plan.

Please submit capability packages via email to: Tammiko Newell, Contracting Officer at tammiko.newell@va.gov no later than 2:00 pm EDT on June 22, 2018, and in the subject line state "VA Telecommunications Infrastructure and [Company Name]. At this time, no solicitation exists; therefore, NO SOLICITATION PACKAGE is available.