General Services Administration, FTS/TQL, ATTN: Phillip L. Barber, c/o Mitretek Systems, Inc., 7525 Colshire Drive, Mail Stop Z476, McLean, VA 22102

D -- INTERNATIONAL DIRECT DISTANCE DIALING (ID3) Sol. KEL-TJ-94-0004. Due 072496. Contact Phillip L. Barber, Contracting Officer, 703-610-2313. International Direct Distance Dialing (ID3). The General Services Administration will issue a solicitation in hardcopy and on the Internet on or about June 12, 1996, to provide outbound international direct distance dialing services from any Government location in the US, (for the purpose of this solicitation the US is defined as the contiguous states (CONUS), the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands) with calling card inbound capability. The resulting contract will be a non-mandatory use contract; i.e., the use of this contract will be at an agency's discretion. Some of the services include: calling card services, direct ordering, installation, testing, operating, maintaining services. Invoice payment and customer billing will be done through the GSA. Interested organizations and individuals may request a copy of the solicitation by submitting a written request to the above address. The request should reference ``ID3'' and/or the solicitation number ``KEL-TJ-94-0004'' and be sent to the attention of Mr. Phillip L. Barber. This synopsis constitutes a Request For Proposals (RFP). Interested parties who have previously requested to be placed on the Bidder's Mailing List need not reapply. The RFP may be retrieved via the Internet's World Wide Web at the following site: http://post.fts2k.gsa.gov. In addition to on-line retrieval, the government will accept questions and/or comments on the RFP through July 3, 1996. Questions/comments may be submitted electronically to the Internet electronic mail address at id3@post.fts2k.gsa.gov in either of the following two formats: plain ASCII or uuencoded representations of Microsoft Word (version 6.0 and earlier) documents. Alternately, questions/comments may be addressed in writing (with a copy on 3.5 inch PC formatted diskette in Microsoft Word 6.0 format to the Contracting Officer. (144)

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