Bureau of Land Management, 6881 Abbott Loop Rd., Anchorage, AK 99507

99 -- VOICE MAIL SYSTEM, 1 EACH SOL 1422-L953-Q98-5009 DUE 031298 POC H. Maria Luis (907) 267-1306, Fax (907) 267-1434 or e-mail mluis@ak.blm.gov This solicitation is a combined synopsis/solicitation and a bid package will not be issued. The Bureau of Land Management (Alaska) has a requirement for one Voice Mail System to support their Fairbanks Northern District Office. Voice Mail specifications are as follows. Required: Interface with hybrid Nortel (Northern Telecom) Meridian PABX. The common and network equipment is an Option 61C. The peripheral equipment is SL1N shelves. The lines are a mix of analog and SL1 multi-line. The system shall support 100 voice mailboxes and shall be modularly expandable* to a minimum of 300 voice mailboxes. Number of ports shall be for 100 voice mailboxes by purchased voice mail package specifications. The number of ports and a minimum of 8 hours of storage shall also be modularly expandable*. The voice mailbox shall be programmed so that callers have the following capabilities: Be able to immediately access a live person, dial another extension, or leave a message. Audio prompts shall guide the caller through thevarious options available. Subscribers shall be able to configure the mailbox with a menu-driven system and record their own messages both locally and from a remote location. Subscribers shall be able to: Remotely access and manage their mailbox; call in and retrieve, delete, and otherwise organize their voice mailbox (e.g. An option for a standard message and a vacation message, which messsage greets the caller.); and remotely record a new message. This should be menu driven. *Modularly expandable means that if 4 ports are purchased and in the future 8 ports are needed, we have the ability to add 4 additional ports instead of purchasing an entirely new 8 port module. A trade in policy is an acceptable substitute. However, if the number of voice mailboxes or storage is increased, the previously installed voice mailboxes and storage will not have to be reprogrammed. At a minimum we must be able to back up and restore what has been previously stored. Options Required to be Available are (Provide pricing for these items): Integration with Lotus Notes E-Mail package. The post office for Lotus Notes is AIX (IBM's flavour of UNIX). The client software is AIX, Windows, and Macintosh. Required integration is with Windows clients. Integration with AIX and Macintosh clients is preferred. For the purposes of voice mail, our LAN is IP based. Ability to integrate with other E-Mail software, including POP3 post office is considered an advantage. Software shall allow the subscriber to manage their voice mailbox and it shall be Windows based. Availability of AIX and Macintosh based software is an advantage. This solicitation is setaside for small business only. Award shall be made on a "Best Value Price" basis and other factors. The solicitation requires a quote for FOB Destination to the Northern District Office in Fairbanks, Alaska. If you are a small business and are interested, please mail your quote and information by 12 March 98 to: Bureau of Land Management, Campbell Tract, Procurement Section, 6881 Abbott Loop Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99507-2599. (0050)

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