SF 30 CNX II Amend 08 pg 2.pdf

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Amendment 08

8/30/10

The purpose of this amendment is to state the following:

This is a reminder that the deadline for receipt of proposals is Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. All proposals are to be electronically submitted via the

Connections Hosting Center (CHC).

Any proposal submitted with a system generated time stamp after the 5:00 PM deadline will not be accepted for evaluation. There will be no extensions granted to the proposal deadline due to lack of electronic access to the CHC.

It is strongly encouraged that all potential offerors should be exercising “testing” their connectivity into the CHC this week, August 30 - September 3, and be familiar with the application. This weekend (September 4-5-6) is a Holiday Weekend. Offeror's IT Staffs may be unavailable to assist if there are system problems on the proposing vendor's site.

The CHC Help Desk (703-610-2669 / support@nhc.noblis.org) is available all this week to work with offerors to resolve access issues and answer application questions. The

CHC Help Desk will monitor all email and voice mail requests for assistance over the

Holiday Weekend, and will assist offerors to resolve any issues to the greatest extent possible. However, if the offerors IT Staff is unavailable, those issues may not be resolved until their return to duty.

A. As a reminder all offers are due by 5:00 PM ET on September 7, 2010 and must be submitted electronically using the Connections II Hosting Center.

B. Questions to the above solicitation are no longer being accepted. Questions were due

Monday, August 2, 2010 by 5:00 PM ET.

C. Sections I and L are hereby replaced in their entirety by the attached Sections I and L dated August 30, 2010.

D. All potential Connections II offerors are advised to submit their Connections II

Hosting Center (CHC) applications as soon as practicable. The process for obtaining the necessary certifications for access to the secure web portal can take up to three (3) weeks.

Connections II proposals can only be submitted electronically via the CHC. The government WILL NOT grant any requests for extending the proposal due date due to a vendor not having received their certifications for secure access to the CHC.