SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Subscription Services
- Notice Date
- 2/5/2008
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 519130
— Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;Acquisition Management Section/00D;1615 Woodward Street;Austin TX 78772
- ZIP Code
- 78772
- Solicitation Number
- VA-200-08-RQ-0025
- Response Due
- 2/7/2008
- Archive Date
- 2/11/2008
- Point of Contact
- Kari Cozzens Contract Specialist 512-326-6494
- E-Mail Address
-
Email your questions to Contract Specialist
(kari.cozzens@va.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Corporate Franchise Data Center - Austin, 1615 Woodward Street, Austin, TX 78772 intends a sole source award to University of Maryland Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) for the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology's participation in the MAX advanced regional inter-networking project infrastructure. MAX makes advanced networking services available among networking participants. Participating will include port connection and subscription to services for a period of 12 months. Authroity to award the sole source procurement can be found at 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(3)(B) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(3)(B) or FAR 6.302-3 (ii) To establish or maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institution or a federally funded research and development center; ; or maintain active engineering, research, or development work. MAX is a research and education regional computer networking organization, that offers a special type of connector known as a Gigapop, or Gigabit Point of Presence. It is one of several Gigapops across the country that specifically provides very high speed access (at least one gigabit per second - 1 Gbps) to the Internet2 network. MAX is the only provider for this service to higher education, Federal agencies, and non-profit institutions in the Washington, D.C. area. VA's originating connection will be made from its Reston, Virginia network center location at Sprint. The second requirement is a connection speed of 1 Gbps. Through market research in the form of contacting other connector organizations, MAX is the only Internet2 connector for the Washington, D.C. region. MAX is also able to meet the requirement for connection speed. It is a Gigapop organization and can provide the Department with the required access speed of 1 Gbps. Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) is an organization instituted primarily to support the academic and research communities in the U.S. It's mission is to provide the infrastructure to help these communities develop the new technologies and applications. The intent of VA is to use its membership in these organizations to do research and further explore new networking capabilities and applications that can be applied in VA lines of business, including healthcare delivery and education of its workforce. Formal membership may further support research projects already underway between VA staff and other Internet2 members because of enhanced network connectivity and a general awareness campaign by both VA and Internet2. Responses to this notice must be in writing and must be received by 3:00pm est on February 7, 2008. Third part firms will be considered only if responding with clear and convincing evidence that the firm has been granted rights to provide the services being procured. The determination to open competition based on responses is solely with in the discretion of the Government. If a solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Responses should be emailed to kari.cozzens@va.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology;Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20420
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20420
- Record
- SN01500295-W 20080207/080205223458 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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