Internet services for the ITA - U.S. Mission China Offices

The Department of State's Regional Procurement Support Office Frankfurt is soliciting quotations on behalf of the International Trade Administration for VPN, internet services, and circuitry at five U.S. Mission China locations, with questions due November 30, 2026 and quotations due December 23, 2026 at 15:00 CET. The procurement is not a set-aside, and the contractor must obtain People's Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs authorization within 15 business days of award, along with authorization to conduct business in the PRC and required government licenses.

Service locations are the U.S. Embassy Beijing, U.S. Consulate Guangzhou, Shanghai Center, U.S. Consulate Shenyang, and U.S. Consulate Wuhan. Service must be delivered over optical fiber through dedicated internet channels via Hong Kong, 24/7/52 weeks per year, with a 99.7% availability standard. Minimum bandwidth is 50 MBps at Beijing with a /29 subnet and 20 MBps at each of the four other locations with /30 subnets, all public internet routable. Downtime credits apply when availability falls below 99.7% monthly or annually. The contractor must assign an English-fluent Project Manager and respond to government requests within one to two business days. Offerors must demonstrate three comparable projects within the past five years, maintain active SAM registration, and complete a Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management questionnaire.

The contract is an IDIQ with firm fixed unit prices, a one-year base period beginning February 10, 2027, and four one-year options. Pricing covers monthly recurring service per location plus a one-time installation CLIN where required. Value Added Tax is priced separately. Defense Base Act insurance is required only for U.S. citizens, residents, or those hired in the United States, because the PRC is on the Department of Labor's active waiver list. Foreign contracting parties must also provide Form W-14.

No incumbent is named. Evaluation factors are Technical Capability, Past Performance, and Price, using comparative evaluation, and the government reserves the right to award without discussions based on initial offers. The source does not weight the factors. Offerors submit two volumes, Volume I (Price Quotation) and Volume II (Technical Quotation), by email to baltaa@state.gov and machendd@state.gov, with the subject line "Quotation 19GE5027Q0007." NAICS is 517111 and PSC is DG10.