- HC102120QA049-0001.v0.pdf

IQO INQUIRY

FM: PL511

TO: Contractors

DATE (MM/DD/YYYY): 2/6/2020

SUBJECT: HC102120QA049-0001 Amend: 0001

A. TYPE ACTION: ADMIN AMEND

1. PURPOSE:

The Purpose of this Amendment 001 is to change the building number, add interface information to Location "A" and add Standard Provision 13.

All other contract terms and conditions remain unchanged.

*** Original solicitation ***

RFQ : NALLA/ALLA requirement to start a 10MB Ethernet commercial lease between Ramstein, Germany to Palmahin, Israel.

2. The requested service date is 18 April 2020. Please indicate the provisioning interval (commercial lead time in calendar days) required for bringing this circuit into service, counted from the day the contract is awarded. The customer desires and will accept earliest possible service date.

3. APL Equipment: In order to ensure compliance, the Vendor’s/Telecommunications Provider’s (TP’s) quote must provide a list of all equipment the TP or any subcontractor will use at the point of interface with the Government's network. – See Standard Provision 52.

4. Only a TP that is NALLA accredited in one of the NATO countries within which this circuit terminates will be eligible to receive an Order/Circuit Demand as the prime contractor under this inquiry. An administrative review of the offeror’s NALLA/ALLA accreditation will be conducted IAW Standard Provision 8 and Standard Provision 11. Quotes from TPs that are not accredited in one of the NATO countries within which this circuit terminates may be found unacceptable and un-awardable and removed from further evaluations.

5. Technical Acceptability Evaluation Criteria: A quote must comply with All Standard Provisions, Provisions, Clauses, and address sections F-M of the solicitation to be deemed technically acceptable. All portions of the solicitation should be carefully reviewed for all mandated requirements outlined within the Standard Provision and documentation requested as found in Section M and affiliated attachments. Quotations must include all required documents and responses indicated from these Standard Provisions, Provisions, Clauses, Section M and affiliated attachments to be considered technically acceptable and/or eligible for award. In response to this IQO inquiry, no terms, conditions, or assumptions will be entertained. If terms, conditions, and/or assumptions are included in a quotation, the quotation may be excluded on grounds that it failed to comply with the IQO inquiry's instructions.

6. In order to be eligible for award, TPs must respond to all provisions/clauses/SPs/text and selected answer(s)/check boxes for FAR 52.204-17, FAR 52.204-20, FAR 52.204-26 (FAR

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52.204-24, if required), FAR 52.209-2, FAR 52.209-11, FAR 52.212-3 ALT I, FAR 52.222-22, DFARS 252.204-7016 (DFARS 252.204-7017, if needed), and DFARS 252.239-7009. Please note: Offerors that do not provide the responses to all provisions/clauses/SPs/text, and/or offerors that fail to make appropriate representations and/or fail to select the answer(s)/check boxes may be found technically not acceptable and as such could be excluded from evaluation/consideration for award.

7. Offeror shall submit with its quote detailed circuit/path connectivity diagrams in accordance with the Circuit Routing Documentation Attachment. In addition to the requirement of circuit/ path connectivity diagrams submission during solicitation phase, as-built circuit/path connectivity diagrams must also be submitted after award to show as final record of the installed path.

Please provide all circuit/path connectivity diagrams to DIETER.ROMEY.LN@MAIL.MIL and

DISA.STUTTGART.DITCO.MBX.POSTAWARD-PL511@MAIL.MIL.

8. Evaluation Criteria: In addition to the procedures outlined in Standard Provision 23, technical evaluation team members will include Government personnel and may include Government's contracted advisors. Government personnel will make the final determination of technical acceptability.

9. Discrepancies/Questions: If an offeror believes that the requirements in this RFQ contain an error, omission, or are otherwise unsound, the offeror shall immediately notify DITCO-Europe in writing with supporting rationale. The government reserves the right to award this effort based on the initial quote, as received, without discussions. Such notification, as well as questions should be addressed to DITCO-Europe PL511 via email at DISA.STUTTGART.DITCO.MBX.PL511@MAIL.MIL and DIETER.ROMEY.LN@MAIL.MIL. Please provide any notification/questions in writing and no later than February 13, 2020 at 10:00AM Central European Time. The government reserves the right to not respond to notifications / not answer questions submitted after this time.

10. Quote Submission: TPs are authorized to submit their quote to DITCO-Europe GIG Transport Section DISA.STUTTGART.DITCO.MBX.PL511@MAIL.MIL and DIETER.ROMEY.LN@MAIL - See Standard Provision 17.

M. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

3. TSR NUMBER: CT19NOV195336A

4. CCSD: JZWDWZW2

Z. DITCO CONTACT:

Dieter Romey

+49.711.686395198 dieter.romey.ln@mail.mil

Michael D. Davis

DITCO Contracting Officer

Location A, LOCATION OF TERMINATION A change from:

ADDRESS: (BLDG) 494; GEB. 500 ZI. 102;RAMSTEIN MIESENBACH, DE, 66877

ROOM: TCF; 1 FL

LOCATION: RAMSTNAB

To:

ADDRESS: (BLDG) GEB. 500 ZI. 102;RAMSTEIN MIESENBACH, DE, 66877

ROOM: TCF; 1 FL

LOCATION: RAMSTNAB

Location A, INSIDE WIRE INSTALLATION / MAINTENANCE REQUIRED change from:

CPIWI-NO/CPIWM-NO

To:

CPIWI-YES/CPIWM-YES

Add the Following:

STANDARD PROVISION - 13 - END-TO-END SERVICE - AUG 2015

This telecommunications service shall be provided on an end-to-end basis, to include all facilities required to extend this service from Contractor provided commercial communications interface point to termination location (i.e., inside wire, etc.). Installation, provision, and maintenance of such service extensions shall be provided as firm fixed prices, and be included in Contractor’s quote as non-recurring charge (NRC) and/or monthly recurring charge (MRC), as applicable. Such service extension charges will be considered in the evaluation of quotes. Quotes containing other than firm fixed price charges for installation, provision, and maintenance of service extensions may be excluded from consideration for award. The U.S. Government shall not be obligated to pay charges which are not specified in the quote and authorized in resultant Order. Contractor receiving this contract shall have total responsibility for end-to-end technical sufficiency (i.e., end-to-end provisioning and restoral/maintenance) for entire telecommunication service.

ACCEPTABLE CONTRACTOR RESPONSE: The acceptable Contractor response to Standard Provision – Thirteen is

“UNDERSTAND,” and provide separately itemized service extension NRC and/or MRC in quote.