Dark Fiber RFI.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

DARK FIBER MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICES

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Classification:

NAICS Code: 541519- Other Computer Related Services

Product Service Code: DG11- Information Technology and Telecommunications — Network

Place of Performance: Hanscom air Force Base Bedford, MA 01731 USA

Description:

Located in Bedford Massachusetts, Hanscom AFB is approximately 20 miles Northwest of

Boston Massachusetts and 20 miles Southeast of Harvard Massachusetts. Nearby cities surrounding the base include Lincoln, Sudbury, Lexington, Lowell, north Chelmsford, Woburn, Waltham, Watertown and Newton Massachusetts. Hanscom AFB, 66th ABG, provides support for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC).

The Hanscom Air Base Group Communications and Information Division (66 ABG/SC) integrate, operate and defend Hanscom AFB’s cyberspace capabilities; accelerate USAF cyberspace and DISA innovations; provide enduring cyberspace support to all customers and missions.

Through this Request for Information (RFI), the 66 ABG/SC and AFLCMC/PZI are seeking information from interested contractors in support of Market Research for Dark Fiber services.

Note:

This RFI is issued for informational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or commit the government to award a contract now or in the future. Submitting information for this

RFI is voluntary, and participants will not be compensated. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort. The information provided may be used by the Air Force in developing its acquisition strategy and performance specifications.

Contractual Information:

The Government anticipates utilizing a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Contract Line Item Number

(CLIN) structure.

If a resulting contract is awarded, supporting documentation to accompany the award may be classified as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Please provide any concerns regarding compliance with the following provisions and clauses:

• FAR 52.204-21, Basic Safeguarding of Covered Contractor Information Systems

• DFARS 252.204-7008, Compliance with Safeguarding Covered Defense Information

Controls

• DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident

Reporting

• DFARS 252.204-7019, Notice of NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements

• DFARS 525.204-7020, NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment Requirements

Technical Description:

This effort requires repair, maintenance and emergency maintenance/ response for an existing 2-strand dark fiber owned by Crown Castle Fiber LLC. This includes ensuring the connectivity between two sites by the Dark Fiber, scheduling routine maintenance and repair check and services and included, without limitation, “dig-safe” responses” and cable locate services.

Emergency Maintenance:

In the event of emergency maintenance, the contractor shall respond to any failure, interruption, or impairment within two (2) hours after receiving a report and restore all failure, interruptions, or impairments within six (6) hours of receiving a report.

Emergency Maintenance Standards:

In the event of an emergency:

• Emergency response shall be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year.

• Contractor will respond immediately to any reported or detected service-affecting network troubles,

• Emergency maintenance personnel, tools and materials will be dispatched to the trouble sites as soon as possible, with best efforts used to have appropriate personnel on-site within a time interval not to exceed two (2) hours following the initial report.

• The Contractor shall provide required maintenance to return fiber connectivity to service as soon as possible upon notification of failure, RFI Response Request:

Interested parties should submit a letter of interest detailing how their organization would meet the requirements listed above. The Government acknowledges pertinent information to assist with the development of your response is currently not available, so please make assumptions to formulate your response. Please provide a point of contact for your organization as well as the name of a person (if different) with authority to enter into agreements with outside parties.

In addition to a Letter of Interest (LOI), please indicate whether your company has performed or is currently performing this type of work. If so, and the capability can be obtained under an existing Government contract, please provide the contract number(s) and Government point of contact.

RFI Submission Instructions:

1. Respondents who submit proprietary data shall clearly mark the data with appropriate markings on the cover sheet and on each applicable page. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. All information received in response on this RFI marked

“Proprietary” will be protected and handled accordingly.

2. All documentation, including any illustrations, pictures, etc., must be no more than three

(3) pages in combined length and shall be either Portable Document Format (PDF) or

Microsoft Word format. Formatted 8.5” x 11” (letter size) paper with type no smaller than 11-point font.

3. To ensure Government receipt, combined file size of emailed attachments should be limited to 10 MB. Attachments with files ending in .zip or .exe are not allowed and will be stripped. Ensure only .pdf, .doc or .docx documents are attached to your email.

4. All correspondence sent via email shall contain a subject line that includes “RFI-FA2835-

DarkFiber [Company Name yyyymmdd]”

5. Please deliver RFI responses and any inquires via electronic submission through email to

Contract Specialist, Kamryn Anderson at kamryn.anderson@us.af.mil and Contracting

Officer, Capt Ashleigh Oneal at ashleigh.oneal@us.af.mil.

6. Please provide RFI responses to the Government no later than (NLT) 19 June 2025.

mailto:kamryn.anderson@us.af.mil mailto:ashleigh.oneal@us.af.mil