Renew of Existing Dark Fiber

Agency/Office:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Location:
Acquisition Management Division (AMD)

Title:
Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Crown Castle, LLC

Description:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) located in Gaithersburg, MD intends to award on a sole source basis to Crown Castle Fiber, LLC. NIST currently has a contract with Crown Castle, LLC formally Lightower Fiber Network for the installation of new dark fiber tail, activation of two (2) strands of fiber and 1 gigabit ethernet retransmission service using a southern transmission route for redundancy.

The purpose of this procurement is to renew access/connectivity of the existing service for a Point-To-Point (PTP) single mode Dark Fiber Pair Link with 1 Gigabit Ethernet Retransmission Service on the Southern Route fiber path from the NIST Gaithersburg, MD campus (215/C08) across the Potomac River at or south of the American Legion Bridge to Equinix in Ashburn, VA. The purpose of the fiber is to continue the established network communications with Amazon Web Services and DoE ESNET via the NIST equipment at Equinix in Ashburn, VA.

This acquisition is being conducted under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1 "Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements". The FAR as supplemented by the Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) will be used to evaluate the quote and award this requirement. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 517110 - Wired Telecommunications Carriers.

This is NOT a solicitation for quotations, quotation abstracts, or a request for competitive quotations and there is no solicitation package available; however, all responses received by the close date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract action based upon responses to this notice is solely with the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered for the purpose of determining whether a qualified source is more advantageous to the Government, the order will be issued to Crown Castle, LLC.

Any questions regarding this notice must be submitted in writing via email to Stephanie Kelly at stephanie.kelly@nist.gov. All responses to this notice of intent must be submitted so that they are received at stephanie.kelly@nist.gov no later than June 19, 2019 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time

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