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D -- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ADMINSITRATIVE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS (ATS) SOL CBD&&&-9601-0003 POC Peter Terek, Contract Specialist (520) 538-8243 or Gary Scibona, Contracting Officer, (520) 533-0455. (Site Code DAEA32) The US Army Information Systems Command intends to award a contract for the Administrative Telephone System operation and maintenance in support of Defense Metropolitan Telephone System (DMATS) - St Louis, MO. RFP REFERENCE: DAEA32-96-R-0001. The highest Security Clearance required for this effort is Top Secret. Certain Contractor personnel employed under this contract must possess a Top Secret Security Clearance. This acquisition is 100% set aside for SMALL BUSINESS. The SIC code is 7378 and the size standard is $14.5 million. This effort is NOT a follow on contract. The requirement used the GSA POTS contract and service agreements from the local carrier, Southwestern Bell. Therefore, NO PREVIOUS CONTRACT DOCUMENT or previous pricing information is available for release. The Contractor shall be responsible for the following tasks: All telephone installs, de-installs and moves, including building cable and cross connects, jumpers to make the instrument operational, preventative, corrective, and demand maintenance on government owned equipment, including, but not limited to, Key systems, EPBAX's, ISDN units and instruments. Contractor shall be responsible for the preventative and remedial maintenance of all cabling on all compounds. There are customers located in 32 different locations in the St Louis metropolitan area, which includes part of Illinois. The Contractor will also be responsible for all LAN cabling on the various compounds. In addition, as an option to the contract, the contractor shall provide telephone operators to perform switchboard operations. The RFP will be a PAPERLESS document to be released via the ISC Contracting Office's Electronic Bulletin Board (EBB), NO HARDCOPY SOLICITATION WILL BE MAILED. A computer with a minimum 8 MB RAM and a modem with 28800 baud is needed to download documents from the EBB. The RFP has been prepared using Microsoft Word Version 6.0 and Microsoft Excel Version 5.0. These programs are recommended for ease of retrieving and reading the documents contained in the RFP. The bulletin Board can be accessed by dialing the EBBS using any communication program, ANSI VT00 or RIPGRAPHIC. Use phone numbers (520) 533-0132 thru 0139. Login as a new user, create your own password and use it each time you login. The first time you login, you will be given 30 minutes of access time. The following day you will be given full access as you are upgraded to a customer, however, we request usage is kept to less than one hour. (0030)

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