USAFA Local Telecommunication Services

SOURCES SOUGHT: THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR QUOTATION BUT INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY!  This notice does not constitute a commitment by the Government.  All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government.

The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code proposed is 517111 - Wired Telecommunications Carriers. The size standard for the NAICS is 1,500 employees.  

The requirement is to provide the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) with

essential Local and Long-Distance Telecommunication Services (LTS) support and features. Support shall be provided to the installation 24 hours a day/seven days a week/365 days a year (24/7/365). Services shall support Direct Inward Dialing (DID) of up to 10,000 directory numbers to the installation while providing diverse routing over Two (2) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) local exchange trunks. Services shall include E911 capabilities and shall be routed to the El Paso County Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). Services shall provide all labor, tools, facilities, materials, and services needed to perform and provide local access to the designated circuit demarcation point(s) and shall provide/install transmission equipment and cables for local exchange access and transport service circuits to the Government-provided floor space at the Government demarcation location(s).

Include in your capabilities package your UEI, Cage Code, and System for Award Management expiration date.

Delivery is FOB Destination to USAF Academy, CO 80840.

We are interested in any size business that is capable of meeting this requirement.

Market research is being conducted to determine interest, capability, and socio-economic category of potential sources for the requirement.  The government requests interested parties submit a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size), business status (i.e., 8(a), Historically Underutilized Business Zone, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, veteran-owned small business, or small business) anticipated teaming arrangements, and a description of similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers.

All interested firms shall submit a capabilities package that explicitly demonstrates company capabilities-indicating examples of commercial sales-and product specifications related to this effort. Also indicate if you are the manufacturer, or provide the name and size of the manufacturer of the product(s) you will be supplying.  Respondents are further requested to indicate their status as a Foreign-owned/foreign-controlled firm and any contemplated us of foreign national employees on this effort.

NOTE:  RESPONSES TO THIS SOURCES SOUGHT SHALL STATE IF THEY ARE A SUPPLIER OR MANUFACTURER!

Please note:  All contractors doing business with the Federal Government must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database.  The website for registration is www.sam.gov.

Responses may be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: brianna.morphis@us.af.mil and kenneth.helgeson.3@us.af.mil. Telephone responses will not be accepted.

RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN: October 7th at 2:00 PM (MDT).

Future information about this acquisition, including issuance of a quotation and/or applicable amendments, will be issued through FedBizOpps.  Interested parties are responsible for ensuring they have the most up-to-date information regarding this acquisition.