DARK Fiber Services SOW - Final.pdf

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Statement of Work (SOW)

For

Lease of Hanscom AFB/MITRE Bedford Fiber Connectivity

66th Air Base Group Communications and Information Division (66ABG/SC)

Hanscom AFB MA

Date: 29 May 2025

Prepared by:

66ABG/SC

Hanscom AFB, MA 01731

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Overview:

The Contractor shall lease, maintain, and repair existing dark fiber, 2-strand, single mode fiber owned by Crown Castle Fiber that provides connectivity between the demarcation point for Hanscom AFB, Bldg. 1646A, and the demarcation point for MITRE Corporation, Building D (main distribution frame room), 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA. The Period of Performance is for one year of service with 4, one year option periods. The fiber transport connection must be terminated at both demarcation points. The Contractor shall maintain connectivity as described below throughout the contract’s entire Period of Performance.

Fiber Property Crown Castle Fiber

Email: https://www.crowncastle.com/

Phone: 877-486-9377

Location

66 ABG/SC

30 Hamilton Street Bldg. 1435 Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 Attn: Robert Guanga

Point of Contact:

Primary Name: Robert Guanga Email: robert.guanga.1@us.af.mil Telephone: 781-225-0022

Secondary

Name: Donn E. DeSilva Email: donn.desilva.1@us.af.mil Telephone: 781-225-1413

Contracting Officer:

Name: Capt. Ashleigh Oneal Email: ashleigh.oneal@us.af.mil Telephone: TBD

Contract Specialist Name: Kamryn Anderson Email: kamryn.anderson@us.af.mil Telephone: 312-845-0151 https://www.crowncastle.com/ mailto:robert.guanga.1@us.af.mil mailto:donn.desilva.1@us.af.mil mailto:ashleigh.oneal@us.af.mil mailto:kamryn.anderson@us.af.mil

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Period of Performance (with multiple option years)

Year 1 Start Date: 9/1/2025 End Date: 8/31/2026

Year 2 Start Date: 9/1/2026 End Date: 8/31/2027

Year 3 Start Date: 9/1/2027 End Date: 8/31/2028

Year 4 Start Date: 9/1/2028 End Date: 8/31/2029

Year 5 Start Date: 9/1/2029 End Date: 8/31/2030

Requirement:

1.0 Mission essential services are to lease, maintenance and repair of existing 2-strand, single mode fiber owned by Crown Castle Fiber that provides connectivity between the demarcation point for Hanscom AFB, Bldg.

1646A, and the demarcation point for MITRE Corporation, Building D (main distribution frame room), 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA.

1.1 The Contractor shall perform all necessary repair and maintenance for the fibers, including routine and emergency maintenance and repair functions, including, without limitation, "dig-safe" responses and cable locate services. The Government reserves the right to have an employee or representative available to observe the Contractor’s work during any maintenance or repair of the Fibers. The Contractor shall use all commercially acceptable communication efforts to provide the Government with forty-eight (48) hours advance notice for all routine maintenance and repair functions by notifying the Government’s designated point of contact listed above. In the event of an emergency, similar notice shall be given to the Government as soon as the emergency is discovered. The Contractor shall use all commercially available efforts to restore connectivity service as soon as possible but no later than 72 hours.

1.2 Relocation - If the Contractor is required by a third party to relocate any of the Fibers, the Contractor shall give the Contracting Officer at least sixty (60) days’ written notice (or a period of notice that is consistent with the notice the Contractor may have received from the third party). Third parties may include, but are not limited

4 | P a g e to, a governmental entity, but do not include a landlord. In the event the Contractor is not reimbursed for the cost of such relocation by a third party, the Contractor shall be responsible for all costs associated with the relocation of the Fibers.

1.2.1 If the Government desires, for any other reason than stated above, to relocate any of the Fibers of Supporting Facilities, such relocation shall be undertaken by the Contractor at the Government’s sole cost and expense as agreed to in a bilateral contract modification.

1.3 Emergency Maintenance - The Contractor shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to respond to any failure, interruption, or impairment affecting the use of the Fibers within two (2) hours after receiving a report from the Government or otherwise learning of any such failure, interruption, or impairment. The Government reserves the right to have a representative present to observe any maintenance or repair. The Contractor shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to restore all Fibers within six (6) hours of any failure or interruption. When a failure, interruption, or impairment affecting the use of the Fibers occurs, the Government will perform their normal troubleshooting efforts for connected systems to ensure failure is not on the government’s end. If the failure is due to the fiber connectivity, the Contractor shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to perform maintenance and repair to correct any failure, interruption, or impairment and restore connectivity in accordance with the procedures set forth in Exhibit A.

1.4 Routine Maintenance - The Contractor shall schedule and perform specific periodic maintenance and repair checks and services, according to commercial best practice on the Fibers, at the Contractor's discretion, but at times agreeable to HAFB and in coordination with the Government.

1.5 In the event that, in the Contractor’s reasonable opinion, all or any part of the Fibers shall require replacement during the Initial Term of this Agreement, such replacement shall be made as soon as reasonably practical, at the Contractor's sole cost and expense. If replacement of the Fibers is required in accordance with the preceding sentence, the Contractor shall give the HAFB written notice of such replacement as soon as it is reasonably practical and shall ensure connectivity is restored as soon as possible.

EXHIBIT A

Emergency Maintenance Standards

Response Time:

Emergency response shall be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year (24/7/365).

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 site 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

5 | P a g e initial report. The Contractor shall provide required maintenance to return fiber connectivity to service as soon as possible upon notification of failure.

Service Restoration Objective:

HAFB services restored as soon as possible upon securing safe restoration condition.

Emergency Communications and Incident Reporting:

In the event of an Emergency Maintenance situation, Contractor will use best commercial efforts to perform an initial damage / trouble assessment and report the findings to the Government POC within two (2) hours of the arrival of Contractor personnel at the trouble location. The initial assessment shall minimally include the following information:

1. Nature and cause of the service-affecting trouble

2. Estimated time to achieve restoration of HAFB service

3. Requirements for additional / special tools, materials or personnel to achieve restoration of HAFB service

4. Subsequent to the restoration of service, but not less than one (1) calendar week following the event, the

Government may request documentation of the incident, detailing, at minimum, the following:

a. Cause(s) of the service outage

b. Resolution of the trouble event

c. Subsequent, or follow-up repair requirements and schedule of activities

d. Records updates, as appropriate

Emergency Restoration Parts and Equipment:

Contractor will maintain a local inventory of fiber cable, materials, and tools sufficient to support cable restoration activities in accordance with Base Communication Plans. This inventory shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) test equipment for cable fault identification and isolation

2. Emergency restoration cable

3. Splicing equipment and equipment necessary to provide communications from the damage location, for coordination of restoration activities Preparedness:

Contractor will maintain a level of preparedness to ensure an effective and efficient response to meet Emergency Maintenance situations affecting the Fibers. Preparedness shall include, but is not limited to, a capability statement and advising appropriate Contractor personnel regarding fiber restoration requirements and procedures.

NOTIFICATION OF COMMENCEMENT: The Contractor shall notify the Project Manager POC identified above and the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) at the time of completion of each event of preventative maintenance, repair or other services rendered.