Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, Building 504, Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5040

Y -- EXTENSION TO THE FIBER OPTIC DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, NAVAL AIR STATION, PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND 20670-5040 Sol N62477-94-B-3063. POC Procurement Technician, Karl Hanson, 301-826-3854, Contracting Officer, Don Mumbert. This requirement was synopsized on 6 February 1995 as a Best-value negotiated procurement. The specification has since been more fully designed and shall be procured as a Invitation for Bid. This IFB is to procure for the provision and installation of tube cable capable of accepting air blown fiber optic strands. The successful bidder must be capable of installing Sumitoma Electronic Industries (SEI) manufactured tube cable capable of accepting air blown fiber optic strands. Additionally, the successful bidder must be certified and provide proof of certification as an acceptable installer by the manufacturer at time of bid opening. SEI is the only known (to date) manufacturer of air-blown fiber optic technology available. This requirement is to provide and secure extensions to the fiber cable plant and necessary incidental work that includes, but is not limited to, trenching, excavating, and backfill, complete and ready for the installation of a air blown fiber optic cable backbone in various locations around the Naval Air Station. The work includes providing and installing manholes, pedestal enclosures, direct burial tube cable, tube cable in conduit, splice cases, network building services entrances, junction boxes, underground rigid metallic conduit, underground polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduit, trenching, jack and boring, the replacement of any road markings that need to be on the road when making new patch with asphalt or cement, and incidental related work. The required system must be capable of supporting projects for engineering, manufacturing, and development of aircraft and related subsystems for the next 20 years. Procurement and installation of fiber and transmission medium is not a part of this requirement. Due to the constantly changing mission requirements of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division and the 53 other tenant commands located at this base, the tubing system must allow the flexibility to easily reconfigure and re-route air-blown fiber optic cable. This tube cable system must be able to satisfy the following requirements: (a) the incremental installation of the quantities and types of air blown fiber needed to meet changing mission requirements, (b) the ability to remove and reuse air blown fiber selectively with no tensile stress on the fiber strands themselves, (c) the ability to provide expedient emergency restoration without inducing additional splice loss (attenuation) in a single step process, (d) the ability to establish and change telecommunications routes quickly and easily without disrupting main telecommunications services, and (e) the ability to change fiber technology (single mode, multimode or new capabilities) both selectively and incrementally. This requirement shall be awarded as an Indefinite-Delivery Quantity type of contract using competitive procedures. The estimated cost of construction is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The minimum guarantee will be $600,000.00. A site visit is tentatively scheduled for 20 April 1995. Do not call for additional technical information. Issuance of the Invitation for Bid is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 5 April 1995. Based on the tentative issuance date all proposals must be received in the Resident Officer in Charge of Construction (ROICC) office by 2:00 p.m. 10 May 1995. There will be a $15.00 non-refundable fee for the plans and specification/RFP. Checks should be made payable to the Treasurer of the United States of America. Mail or deliver your request for receiving plans and specifications to ROICC, Building 504, Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5504, Attn: Karl Hanson. Telephone and facsimile requests for the RFP will not be honored. (082)

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