Network Drops Contract Award

1. The Department of the Army, Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC), Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington, intends to solicit bids for a contractor to provide personnel, management, labor, materials, equipment, and other items, specified or not, and services not Government-furnished to install, label, and test Category 6 (CAT 6) computer network/phone drops with associated communication closet. The contractor must provide two (2) patch cords per data drop install for connectivity from the computer to the networking switch. The patch cords must be blue, plenum rated, snagless RJ45 to RJ45 booted, CAT 6, Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP), fifteen (15) and five (5) feet in length to augment the existing CAT 6 data network infrastructure, equipment racks, patch panels and cable trays at JBLM NEC-owned buildings and its associated clinics.

2. The Request for Quotation (RFQ) will result in the award of one (1) single fixed-price requirements contract. The applicable NAICS code is 238210 Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors and the small business size standard is $15 million. This procurement will be a 100% small business set-aside.

3. The anticipated contract period of performance is a base period of 1 October 2015 - 30 September 2016 and four (4) one-year option periods (Option Period 1: 1 October 2016 - 30 September 2017; Option Period 2: 1 October 2017 - 30 September 2018; Option Period 3: 1 October 2018 - 30 September 2019; Option Period 4: 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020) that expires on 30 September 2020.

4. The Government will not honor telephonic requests for the solicitation. When issued, the solicitation will be available via the FedBizOpps website, http://www.fbo.gov/. The tentative RFQ issue date is 24 March 2014 and the anticipated closing date is 23 April 2015. Interested offerors shall consult the actual solicitation for final dates and times.

5. The Government will consider bids from all capable and responsible sources. Firms offering a response to this notice should ensure that they have registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database, https://www.sam.gov/, and ensure that the applicable NAICS code 238210 is included in the SAM profile prior to submission of bids.

6. Prospective bidders should submit any questions they may have, in advance and in writing, to usarmy.jblm.acc-micc.list.proposals@mail.mil and Larissa Ortmann, Contract Specialist, at Larissa.a.ortmann.civ@mail.mil.

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