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U -- CISCO INTERNETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING TRAINING COURSE AND ADVANCED CISCO ROUTER CONFIGURATION TRAINING COURSE Sol. M67400-96-R-A004. Due 061796. Contact: Rick Maberry, 011-81-6117-45-1504 or 3974; FAX 011-81-98-6024/Contracting Officer: C.E. KING. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation, proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation M67400-96-R-A004 is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. This acquisition is for Instructional Training for Cisco courses. CLIN 0001: CISCO INTERNETWORK TROUBLESHOOTING TRAINING COURSE, 12 Students, Cisco System P/N TRN-CIT. CLIN 0002 CISCO ADVANCED CISCO ROUTER CONFIGURATION TRAINING COURSE, 12 Students, Cisco System P/N TRN-ACRC. The contractor will be required to provide the above training courses for the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan. The offer shall include all cost except for items indicated as Government furnished. The contractor shall provide a protocol analyzer student handouts, student manuals, instructors' manuals for each course. The contractor will be responsible for the shipping of class materials to and from Okinawa. The contractor will provide certified CISCO course certificates to each student upon completion of each course. These certificates shall be applied towards completing the Cisco Certified InternetWork Expert program. The contractor's instructor shall meet or exceed the following criteria: the Instructor shall be certified a Cisco Router instructor and must have been trained by Cisco Systems Education Center or one of their Certified Training Centers, and possess a valid current certification document, must read, write and speak fluent English, must possess a thorough working knowledge of the two courses he/she is to teach and all Cisco Routers. The Cisco Internetwork troubleshooting Class shall include the following: Training in Troubleshooting Methodology, symptoms, causes and actions, with generic problem solving. It must include training on Protocol characteristics and troubleshooting tools. The course shall have a strong focus on Banyan Vines protocol, Cisco diagnostics tools and hands on troubleshsooting. The Advanced Cisco Router Configuration Class shall include the following: Training in traffic congestion management, scaleable routing protocols, and scalability features for WAN's, training on TCP/IP and VINES protocols. The Government will provide the following for each class: Twelve (12) computers, 486/50 with 8MB RAM, VGA monitors, DOS, and Windows, and will run ethernet or Token Ring; two (2) servers with 32MB RAM, 1GB hand drive; Banyan Vines Ver 5.54 (20), MNet, PCPrint, PCDialin, LAN Server-to-Server, WAN Server-to-Server, Mail, IM3, Vines Assistant, two (2) Hayes V-Series modems; a white-board and overhead-projector for the classroom, invitational orders allowing the instructor access on base, and access to the commissary and Post Exchange. The Government will provide daily transportation to and from the billeting location to the designated class, unless the instructors decide to rent a vehicle. CLIN 0001 is to be performed during the period of July 8-12, 1996. CLIN 0002 is to be performed during the period of July 15-19, 1996. All instruction will be performed at MCB Camp Kinser, Bldg 107, Okinawa, Japan. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items (Oct 1995) applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial items (Oct 1995 applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a Contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms to the solicitation and is the most advantageous offer to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors listed in descending order of importance will be used to evaluate offers: (1) Price: The evaluation of this factor shall be based on comparison to costs of any known recent procurements of the same or similar items by this or other commands; comparison of prices obtained on this solicitation, and comparison to catalog prices. (2) Technical Expertise: Offeror shall submit the educational background/level, years of teaching experience and certifications and credentials of each instructor. Each instructor must have at the time of award, at least 2 years of in-classroom instructional time and at least 1 year of experience of hands-on Cisco Router Operating Systems. (3) Past Performance: Offeror shall submit the following information concerning similar services furnished during the past two (2) years: Name, address, telephone number, point of contact, total dollar amount of contracts and orders from Federal, State, Local Government agencies or private companies in which the offer has performed similar services. In addition, the offerors may provide information on problems encountered while performing those contracts or orders and the offerors' corrective action used to resolve those problems. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award contract without discussions, therefore, offerors are encouraged to submit their offer from a cost or price standpoint. The offeror is required to submit a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications--Commercial Items (Oct 1995). FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items (Oct 1995) applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders--Commercial Items is incorporated in this solicitation. the following additional FAR Clauses are applicable to this acquisition: FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate I (41 U.S.C. 253g and 10 U.S.C. 2402), FAR 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity (41 U.S.C. 423), FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans (38 U.S.C.4212), FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 4212). Closing date will be 17 June 96 at 1500 hours, Japan Standard Time. For additional information, contact Rick Maberry at 011-81-6117-45-1504/3974 or FAX 011-81-988-93-6024. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which will be considered. (144)

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