Combined Solicitation & Synopsis for Comcast Cable and Internet Services in VA

Issuing Agency: United States Marshals Service (USMS)
Issuing Office: Office of Procurement
1215 S. Clark St
Arlington, VA 22202

This notice is being issued to comply with FAR 5.102(a). This notice uses the combined synopsis/solicitation stated in FAR Part 5.203(a)(1) & (2).

A sole source award is intended to Comcast Business Communications, LLC d/b/a Comcast pursuant to FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) based on their capability of providing the required service on their existing and compatible cable connections currently in place. However, any interested party may provide a quote in response to this combined synopsis/solicitation. All quotes received will be fairly considered.

Description of the Requirement:

NAICS Code: 517111
PSC: DG11
Size Standard of Employees: 1,500
Set Aside Status: N/A
Quantity: Service for one year for 15 Divisions at the USMS HQ location.
Period of Performance: 9/1/2024 – 8/31/2025
Anticipated Award Date: 8/21/2024

Instructions to Offerors:

Due Date and Time for Responses: August 16, 2024, no later than 4 pm Eastern Time.

Questions: All questions and quotes must be emailed to Deloyce Barrington, Deloyce.barrington@usdoj.gov by 3 pm Eastern Time on August 14, 2024.

Technical Capability: Offers must submit sufficient documentation showing it can meet capabilities of providing Internet and cable services for the above number of locations.

Price: The offeror must include a price per month subscription for each location.

Point of Contact: The offeror must include a point of contact, phone and email, for questions related to the quote. The offeror is expected to be responsive and respond to any inquiries from the USMS Contracting Officer within 24 hours or less.

Submission of the Quote: All quotes must be emailed to Deloyce Barrington, deloyce.barrington@usdoj.gov by the date/time specified above.

Basis of Award: As stated above, a single award for these services is anticipated to be made on a sole source basis to Comcast Business Communications, LLC d/b/a Comcast as a result of this combined synopsis/solicitation. If competition is received, lowest-price, technical acceptability procedures will be used for this acquisition. The offerors will be evaluated as follows:

Responsiveness: Partial submissions are not acceptable. The offeror must comply with the instructions stated in this solicitation.

Technical Capability: Technical acceptability is determined by the capabilities of providing cable TV and Internet services.

Price Reasonableness: The Contracting Officer will conduct an evaluation of price reasonableness in accordance with FAR 13.

Be otherwise eligible to receive an award: The offeror must be determined responsible pursuant to the general standards in FAR 9.104, be registered in the System for Award Management and otherwise eligible to receive an award.

The Government reserves the right to negotiate only with the apparent successful offeror. If the issues cannot be resolved, the apparent successful offeror will receive no further consideration for award and the Government reserves the right to negotiate with the next successful offeror. This process will continue until the Government has a successful offeror.

At the Contracting Officers discretion, incomplete quotes may be considered ineligible for award.

The standard commercial clauses will apply to the resulting purchase order: e.g., FAR 52.212-4, FAR 52.212-5 (applicable clauses will be indicated as appropriate in the purchase order), etc.

Electronic Invoicing: Electronic invoicing via the USMS IPP is required.

Options for Increased Quantity: Options are not applicable to this requirement.