SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- DISA is seeking information to assess the capabilities of the commercial market place to provide X-Band satellite service to the Government.
- Notice Date
- 8/25/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517410
— Satellite Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Procurement and Logistics, DITCO-Scott, 2300 East Drive Bldg 3600, Scott AFB, IL, 62225-5406
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5406
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-HC1013-XBAND
- Response Due
- 9/13/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2004
- Point of Contact
- Deborah Wellen, Contract Specialist, Phone 618-229-9547, Fax 618-229-9174,
- E-Mail Address
-
xband@scott.disa.mil
- Description
- 1. SUBJECT The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking information to assess the capabilities of the commercial market place to provide X-Band satellite service to the Government. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS RFI OR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR INFORMATION RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFI. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. All information received in response to this RFI that is marked PROPRIETARY will be handled accordingly. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations. Responses to the RFI will not be returned. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the U.S. Government to form a binding contract. 2. DESCRIPTION The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is exploring the practicality of acquiring satellite services in the X-band from commercial activities or other government entities. Specifically, this RFI seeks the following information: -- Identify all sources of X-band capacity currently available for lease. Small businesses are encouraged to respond to the RFI in order to assist DISA in determining the level of Small Business participation in providing X-band services from a provider or reseller standpoint. -- Identify all the various pricing mechanisms that are available or may be available to acquire these services. -- Provide the commercial terms and conditions for providing bandwidth portability, volume discounts, and bundling. Comment on any e tradeoffs for offering such terms and conditions. -- Provide concepts for ensuring a successful offeror continues to provide services at the lowest possible price. 3. DEFINITIONS Bundling. Consolidating similar services for the purpose of minimizing aggregate costs. Most Favored Customer. The status of a customer that through formal relationship or policy affords the customer the best pricing offered by a provider of goods or services. Near-Real-Time. Pertaining to the timeliness of data or information, which has been delayed by the time required for electronic communication and automatic data processing. This implies that there are no significant delays. Portability. The ability to discontinue unneeded or underused services on one system or subsystem for the purpose of re-initiating these same or similar services on another system or subsystem at no or minimal additional costs to the customer. Positive Control. Real-time or near-real-time monitoring and control of the physical assets providing services to ensure all users are properly accessing those services, there is no unauthorized use of those services, and anomalies or outages are quickly identified in order to effect rapid restoration of those services. Volume discounting. The practice of offering reductions to typical unit prices when an entity is demonstrably procuring a large quantity of an item or a large volume of services when individual orders are aggregated. 4. REQUIREMENTS This section describes the Government?s requirement. 4.1 Services provided by a commercial vendor or government entity must be fully compatible with the Global Information Grid (GIG). 4.2 The U.S. Government?s standing operating procedures with regard to operating in the X-band, e.g., polarization, access methods, take precedence over other considerations. 4.3 The government must have the ability to monitor all leased services in terms of availability and performance on a 24 hour per day 7 day a week basis. 4.4 The offeror must provide for the continuing positive control of all assets through which services are provided to the U.S. Government. 5. CONCEPTS This RFI seeks information about commercial capability to supply X-band satellite service to the Government. The Government will consider acquiring service from commercial vendors or foreign governments. 6. RFI RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS Electronic responses to this RFI are due by 4:00 p.m. CDST 13 September 2004. RFI responses should be limited to no more than 20 pages and shall be submitted electronically in accordance with the instructions that follow. Respondents must include Company Name, Street Address, State, NINE-digit Zip Code, POC, POC telephone and fax numbers, email address, Company Size and Status. If the company address includes a PO Box, the complete street address must also be provided. Respondents shall classify their company size using NAICS 517410, Satellite Telecommunications ($12.5 million). RFI response upload instructions are as follow: Prior to submitting responses to this RFI, vendors shall register with DITCO via its Contracting Opportunities web site at https://www.ditco.disa.mil/dcop. During the registration process, choose the option for ?The solicitation requires vendor registration for eligibility?. You will be prompted to enter the solicitation number (use the Reference No. HC1013-XBAND). Upon completion of registration, vendors will receive a user-id and password for use when uploading RFI responses. This process allows DITCO to precisely track when responses are uploaded (or attempted to be uploaded). Registration information will be verified by DITCO personnel, which takes about a day. Once the vendor?s information is verified, responses will be able to be uploaded. Vendors must register a minimum of one week prior to uploading a response to ensure the response upload is accomplished by the closing date and time. Vendors should also attempt to upload their response as early as possible to ensure no problems arise at the last minute. If a vendor would like to test the upload process, they may do so by typing in this url: https://www.scott.disa.mil/dcop. Under the heading Submit Proposals for:, look for Upload Proposal Test. If you have any problems, please contact Kevin Mehlan at (618)229-9334, email address: mehlank@scott.disa.mil, or the DITCO customer service center at (618) 229-9333. The technical point of contact for this RFI is Mr. David Frick, 703-882-0645, FrickD@ncr.disa.mil. All other questions concerning the RFI should be directed to Ms. Deborah Wellen, 618-229-9547, xband@scott.disa.mil.
- Place of Performance
- Address: N/A
- Record
- SN00653235-W 20040827/040826074145 (fbodaily.com)
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