Region 1 LEC - Frontier

Added: Sep 05, 2014 8:08 am The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Acquisition Operations (OAO), Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, New Jersey, intends to enter into a contract on a basis of other than full and open competition for existing Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) services on the Region 1 Telecommunications Business Office (R1 TBO) Frontier Communications infrastructure. These LEC services consist of: plain old telephone service (POTS), Centrex service, Primary Rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (PRI) service, Basic Rate ISDN (BRI) 2B+D Service, Private Branch Exchange (PBX) Trunk, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) numbers, Caller ID (name and number) feature (POTS Line and PRI Circuit (23B+D)), Three-Way Calling feature, Call Forward feature, Call Wait feature, Voicemail feature, Call Block feature, Call Hunting/Roll over feature, Call Redirect feature, Third Party Billing Block feature, Primary inter-LATA (Local access and transport area) Carrier (PIC/LPIC) provisioning, and Telephone Service Priority (TSP). The Contractor shall provide telecommunication services at the facility 24 hours per day, seven days per week with maximum service availability. The intended sole source award will be a firm-fixed price contract with Frontier Communications, 3 High Ridge Park, Stamford, Connecticut 06905. The Statutory Authority for this effort falls under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 6.302-1 entitled, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." The North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) for this effort is 517110. The estimated date of award for this action is October 01, 2014.



This notice does not in itself represent the issuance of a formal request for proposal/quote and is not intended to be taken as such. This notification shall close on August 29, 2014.



Questions/responses shall be submitted via e-mail to Contract Specialist, Sarah Kuna, e-mail: Sarah.Kuna@va.gov, with the subject line as the synopsis number, VA118-14-Q-0595. The Points of Contact (POCs) for this action are Sarah Kuna, Contract Specialist, 732-440-9651or David Nostrant, Contracting Officer, 732-440-9706.