PWS - Cable and Commercial Internet.pdf

Ver. October 2022

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

FOR

Local Cable and Commercial Internet Services

1.0 General:

1.1 Scope: This requirement will provide essential Cable Television and Internet services on Hector Field ANGB in Fargo, ND. The requirement is being pursued by the 119th COMM so they can bring services to the base populous for MWR and World situation monitoring on multiple news channels. There is an additional requirement for fiber optic commercial internet connection. This cable and internet connection will support the installation 24 hours a day/seven days a week/365 days a year (24/7/365).

1.2 Background: Currently there is cable TV and internet connections throughout the base under a base contract with option years. This service contract will be expired in November 2023 and the contract will be replaced with a new service contract. The expectation of this requirement will be to be able to obtain cable television and commercial internet services across the entire base at Hector Field on a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract for long term duration that fall within legal terms and conditions set forth with all applicable regulations and policies set forth by DOD, USAF, ANG and any other applicable agencies.

1.3 Period of Performance (PoP): The Period of Performance shall be (1) Base Year of 12 months and four (4) 12-month option years, for a total of five (5) years.

Base Year: November 12, 2023 – November 11, 2024 1st Option Year – November 12, 2024 – November 11, 2025 2nd Option Year – November 12, 2025 – November 11, 2026 3rd Option Year – November 12, 2026 – November 11, 2027 4th Option Year – November 12, 2027 – November 11, 2028

1.4 General Information:

1.4.1 Place and Performance of Services: The contractor shall provide services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Performance shall be at 119th ND Air National Guard, 1400 32nd Ave N, Fargo, ND 58102. The contractor shall at all times maintain an adequate work force for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined within this PWS when the Government facility/installation is not closed for the above reasons. When hiring personnel, the contractor shall keep in mind that the stability and continuity of the work force are essential. Teleworking is/is not authorized.

1.4.1.1 Reserved.

1.4.1.2 Unscheduled gate closures by the Security Police may occur at any time causing all personnel entering or exiting a closed installation to experience a delay. This cannot be predicted or prevented. Contractors are not compensated for unexpected closures or delays. Vehicles operated by contractor personnel are subject to search pursuant to applicable regulations. Any moving violation of any applicable motor vehicle regulation may result in the termination of the contractor employee’s installation driving privileges.

1.4.1.3 The contractor’s employees shall become familiar with and obey the regulations of the installation; including fire, traffic, safety and security regulations while on the installation. Contractor employees should only enter restricted areas when required to do so and only upon prior approval. All contractor employees shall carry proper identification with them at all times, and shall be subject to such checks as may be deemed necessary. The contractor shall ensure compliance with all regulations and orders of the installation, which may affect performance. The Government reserves the right to direct the removal of an employee from Government property or revoke access to Government systems for misconduct, security reasons, or any overt evidence of communicable disease. Removal of contractor employees for reasons stated above does not relieve the Contractor from responsibility for total performance of this contract.

1.4.2 Recognized Holidays: The following are recognized United States (US) holidays.

The contractor shall not perform services on these days:

1.4.2.1 New Year’s Day: January 1st

1.4.2.2 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday

1.4.2.3 President’s Day

1.4.2.4 Memorial Day

1.4.2.5 Juneteenth National Independence Day: June 19th

1.4.2.6 Independence Day: July 4th

1.4.2.7 Labor Day

1.4.2.8 Columbus Day

1.4.2.9 Veteran’s Day: November 11th

1.4.2.10 Thanksgiving Day

1.4.2.11 Christmas Day: December 25th

1.4.3 Reserved.

1.4.4 Reserved.

1.4.5 Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures. The contractor shall comply with all applicable installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures, which may be obtained from the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks to meet installation access requirements to be accomplished by the local installation’s Security Forces, Director of Emergency Services or local Security Office. The contractor shall ensure compliance with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by DoD, Headquarters Air Force (HAF) and/or local policy. Should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes.

1.4.5.1 The contractor shall obtain base identification and vehicle passes, if required, for all contractor personnel who make frequent visits to or perform work on the Air Force installation(s) cited in the contract. Contractor personnel are required to wear or prominently display installation identification badges or contractor-furnished, contractor identification badges while visiting or performing work on the installation.

1.4.5.2 The contractor shall submit a written request on company letterhead to the contracting officer listing the following: contract number, location of work site, start and stop dates, and names of employees and subcontractor employees needing access to the base. The letter will also specify the individual(s) authorized to sign for a request for base identification credentials or vehicle passes. The contracting officer will endorse the request and forward it to the issuing base pass and registration office or Security Forces for processing. When reporting to the registration office, the authorized contractor individual(s) should provide a valid driver s license, current vehicle registration, valid vehicle insurance certificate, and [insert any additional requirements to comply with local security procedures] to obtain a vehicle pass.

1.4.5.3 During performance of the contract, the contractor shall be responsible for obtaining required identification for newly assigned personnel and for prompt return of credentials and vehicle passes for any employee who no longer requires access to the work site.

1.4.5.4 Upon completion or termination of the contract or expiration of the identification passes, the prime contractor shall ensure that all base identification passes issued to employees and subcontractor employees are returned to the issuing office.

1.4.5.5 Failure to comply with these requirements may result in withholding of final payment.

1.4.5.6 Communications Security/Information Technology (COMSEC/IT) Security. All communications with DoD organizations are subject to COMSEC review. All telephone communications networks are continually subject to intercept by unfriendly intelligence organizations. DoD has authorized the military departments to conduct COMSEC monitoring and recording of telephone calls originating from, or terminating at, DoD organizations. Therefore, the contractor is advised that any time contractor personnel place or receive a call they are subject to COMSEC procedures. The contractor shall ensure wide and frequent dissemination of the above information to all employees dealing with DoD information. The contractor shall abide by all Government regulations concerning the authorized use of the Government's computer network, including the restriction against using the network to recruit Government personnel or advertise job openings.

1.4.6 Physical Security. The contractor shall safeguard all Government property provided for contractor use. At the close of each work period, Government facilities, equipment and materials shall be secured.

1.4.7 Reserved.

1.4.8 Reserved.

1.4.9 Contract Manager (CM): The contactor shall designate a CM who shall ensure performance under this contract. The name of this person, and an alternate who shall act for the contractor when the CM is absent, shall be designated in writing to the KO.

The CM or alternate shall have full authority to act for the contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operation of this contract. The CM shall work through the KO, to resolve issues, receive technical instructions, and ensure adequate performance of services. The CM shall ensure that contractor employees do not perform any services outside the scope of the contract without an official modification issued by the KO. The CM shall ensure contractor employees understand that services performed outside the scope of the contract are performed wholly at the expense of the contractor.

1.4.10 Identification of Contractor Employees: All contractor personnel attending meetings, answering Government telephones and working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties are required to identify themselves as such to avoid creating an impression that they are Government employees. The contractor shall ensure that all documents or reports produced by contractor personnel are suitably marked as contractor products or that contractor participation is appropriately disclosed. The contractor’s status as a “contractor” shall be predominantly displayed in all correspondence types (to include signature blocks on e-mail) and dealings with Government or non-Government entities. Contractor personnel shall wear identification badges distinguishing themselves as such. The badges shall have the company name, employee name and the word “contractor” displayed.

1.4.10.1 The contractor shall retrieve all identification media (including vehicle passes) from its employees who depart employment for any reason. The contractor shall return all identification media (i.e., badges and vehicles passes) to the KO within 14 days of an employee’s departure.

1.4.11. Combating Trafficking in Persons: The United States Government has adopted a zero tolerance policy regarding trafficking in persons. Contractors and contractor employees shall not engage in severe forms of trafficking in persons during the period of performance of the contract; procure commercial sex acts during the period of performance of the contract; or use forced labor in the performance of the contract. The Contractor shall notify its employees of the United States Government’s zero tolerance policy, the actions that will be taken against employees for violations of this policy. The contractor shall take appropriate action, up to and including termination, against employees or subcontractors that violate the US Government policy as described at

FAR 22.17.

1.4.12 Reserved.

2.0 Definitions and Acronyms:

2.1 Definitions:

2.1.1 Contractor: A supplier or vendor awarded a contract to provide specific supplies or service to the Government. The term used in this contract refers to the prime.

2.1.2 Defective Service: A service output that does not meet the standard of performance associated with the PWS.

2.1.3 Deliverable: Anything that can be physically delivered and includes non-manufactured things such as meeting minutes or reports.

2.1.4 Key Personnel: Contractor personnel that are evaluated in a source selection process and that may be required to be used in the performance of a contract by the PWS. When key personnel are used as an evaluation factor in best value procurement, an offer can be rejected if it does not have a firm commitment from the persons that are listed in the proposal.

2.1.5 Physical Security: Actions that prevent the loss or damage of Government property.

2.1.6 Quality Assurance: The Government procedures to verify that services being performed by the Contractor are performed according to acceptable standards.

2.1.7 Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP): An organized written document specifying the surveillance methodology to be used for surveillance of contractor performance.

2.1.8 Quality Control: All necessary measures taken by the Contractor to ensure that the quality of an end product or service shall meet contract requirements.

2.1.9 Subcontractor: One that enters into a contract with a prime contractor. The Government does not have privity of contract with the subcontractor.

2.2 Acronyms:

AEI Army Enterprise Infostructure AR Army Regulation AT/OPSEC Antiterrorism/Operational Security BI Background Investigation CM Contract Manager COR Contracting Officer Representative

DA Department of the Army DD254 Department of Defense Contract Security Classification Specification DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement DoD Department of Defense DSCA Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation GFP/M/E/S Government Furnished Property/Material/Equipment/Services HQDA Headquarters, Department of the Army HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive IA Information Assurance IS Information System(s) KO Contracting Officer NGB National Guard Bureau OCI Organizational Conflict of Interest PII Personally Identifiable Information PIPO Phase In/Phase Out POC Point of Contact PRS Performance Requirements Summary PWS Performance Work Statement QA Quality Assurance QASP Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan QC Quality Control QCP Quality Control Program SCR Service Contract Reporting SSN Social Security Number TE Technical Exhibit USD(I) Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

3.1 Reserved.

3.2 Reserved.

3.3 Reserved.

3.4 Reserved.

3.5 Utilities: All utilities in the facility will be available for the contactor’s use in the performance of this contract. The contractor shall instruct employees in utilities conservation practices. The contractor shall operate under conditions that preclude the waste of utilities, which include turning off the water faucets or valves after using the required amount.

4.0 Contractor Furnished Property, Materials, and Equipment (CFP/M/E):

4.1 General: Except for those items specifically stated to be Government-Furnished in Paragraph 3.0, the contractor shall furnish everything required to perform these services as indicated in Paragraph 1.1.

5.0 Requirements: The contractor shall provide both:

5.1 Internet Service Requirements: The contractor is responsible for supply all equipment, material, and labor up to the demarcation point. This includes all necessary components, manpower, and travel for service-related repairs and updates to the CATV. High speed, fiber optic connection with an Ethernet handoff to government owned equipment in equipment room located in building 110 equipment room to be redistributed as needed via existing government owned network equipment. Minimum speed of 150Mbps upload and 150Mbps download with the option to add more capacity and provide (5) static IPs, all without making changes to the NDANG current system.

These services are to be provided on one monthly billing invoice (bundled pricing) using WAWF monthly.

Provide pricing for current 150Mbps upload/download as well as 250Mbps upload/download and 500Mpbs upload/download with the option to add more capacity and provide (5) static IPs.

5.2 Television Service Requirements: The contract will provide basic cable television services that include, but are not limited to the following: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, TNT, TBS, USA, FX, AMC, TLC, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, etc. without placing a converter at each TV. Currently an existing Vecima TC600 will be reused unless the service provider can furnish another cost-effective solution at no cost to the North Dakota Air National Guard.

5.3 Site Visit: Offerors or quoters are urged and expected to inspect the site where services are to be performed and to satisfy themselves regarding all general and local conditions that may affect the cost of the contract performance, to the extend that the information is reasonable obtainable. In event shall failure to inspect the site constitute grounds for a claim after contract award. The site visit will be conducted October 27th at 1 PM, meeting in building 110, meet in entrance. All vendors who wish to attend site visit must provide 119 WG Form 31-18 employee information to the Contracting Officer no later than October 26th, 2023 by 1 PM.

5.4 Service Calls: The contractor shall respond to services calls within 24 hours, or the next business day, whichever is later, after the Contracting Officer submits a service request to the vendor designated point of contract. “Within 24 hours or next business day” is any reasonable Contracting Officer contact to the service provider requesting service prior to 4 pm Central Time; request made after 4 pm Central Time will be interpreted as requested the following day. “Response to service request” is defined as substantive action to correct service need. If correction of service cannot be completed within the required response time stated above, the vendor shall provide the Contracting Officer a “fixed by” date and the reason for the delay in corrective service. Corrective service shall not exceed seven (7) calendar dates from date of notification by the Contracting Officer.

6.0 Applicable Publications: Publications applicable to this PWS are listed below:

Publication (Chapter/Page)

Date of Publication

Mandatory or Advisory

Website

Federal Acquisition Regulation https://www.acquisition.gov/?q=browsefar

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfarspgi/current/in dex.html or https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars

DoDM 5200.2 Procedures for the DoD Personnel Security Program

(PSP)

04/03/2017 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/

DoDI 5200.46 DoD Investigative and Adjudicative Guidance for Issuing the Common

Access Card (CAC)

09/09/14 (Change 1:

05/04/2018) https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/

Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)-12

Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and

Contractors

08/27/2004 https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive-12

DoDI 5400.11 Department of Defense Privacy and

Civil Liberties Programs

01/29/2019 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/

DoD 5400.11-R Department of Defense Privacy

Program

05/14/2007 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/

DoDD 8140.01 Cyberspace Workforce Management

10/05/2020 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodd/

DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Workforce

Improvement Program

12/19/2005 (Change 4:

11/10/2015) https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/

DoD 5220.22-M National Industrial Security Program

Operating Manual (NISPOM)

02/28/2006 (Change 2:

05/18/2016)

AFI 10-245

Antiterrorism

03/28/2013 (Certified current

03/30/2017) https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/Product- Index/#/?view=pubs&orgID=10141&catID=1&series

=-1&modID=449&tabID=131

AFI 31-101

Security Forces Standards and

Procedures

08/18/2020 https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/Product- Index/#/?view=pubs&orgID=10141&catID=1&series

=-1&modID=449&tabID=131

AFMAN 31-113

Security Forces Standards and

Procedures

03/05/2013 Change 1:

12/02/2015 https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/Product- Index/#/?view=pubs&orgID=10141&catID=1&series

=-1&modID=449&tabID=131

AFI 10-701

Operations Security

7/24/2019 (Change 1:

06/09/2020) https://www.e-publishing.af.mil/Product- Index/#/?view=pubs&orgID=10141&catID=1&series

=-1&modID=449&tabID=131 https://www.acquisition.gov/?q=browsefar http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfarspgi/current/index.html http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfarspgi/current/index.html https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/ https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/ https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive-12 https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive-12 https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/ https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodd/

6.1 Applicable Forms: Forms available to the PWS are listed below:

Form Date Website

119 WG Form 31-18 Aug 2000 Not Applicable; Local WG Form

TECHNICAL EXHIBIT 2

Deliverables Schedule

PWS Reference / Deliverable Title

Frequency Number of Copies

Medium/Format Submit To

Contractor Employees working on base/ 119 WG Form 31-

18 NDANG

Application for Work

Under DOD Contract

4 Days prior to work 1 Electronic KO

List of channels provided with service

With proposal 1 Electronic Submission

KO

Documentation infrastructure is in place and have provided the signal to the designated equipment room located in Building

After Work is completed 1 Electronic KO

Upload and Download Speed

After work is completed 1 Electronic KO

Replacement of Vecima TC600 and/or upgrade with contractor supplied equipment

Prior to work starting 1 Electronic KO https://www.acquisition.gov/?q=browsefar