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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 24,1998 PSA#2249

General Services Administration, Acquisition Services Division, 1301 Clay Street, Suite 280S, MB 45, Oakland, CA 94612

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SOL 9T9G801A DUE 123198 POC Chris Matthews, Contracting Officer, FAX (510) 637-3869 Office No. (510)637-3892 WEB: chris.matthews@gsa.gov, chris.matthews@gsa.gov. E-MAIL: chris.matthews@gsa.gov, chris.matthews@gsa.gov. The General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service, intends to issue a purchase order for information technology service. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulations document (FAR) subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation: quotes are being requested and a WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. Task ID No. 9T9G801A is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). This procurement is not a small business set aside. This request is for a service to handle an increasingly more complex information technology requirement for the Department of the Navy, Engineering Field Activity West located in San Bruno, CA. This is a Navy organization of approximately 500 total employees, Engineering Field Activity West (EFA West) provides facilities, engineering, technical, and contracting support for several active and closed Navy bases throughout Northern California and Nevada. EFA West and its 13 remote sites (ROICCs and Caretaker Site Offices) rely heavily on its Banyan VINES network and Microsoft servers for access to email, file and print services, the Internet, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Intranet, and various networked and client server databases. REQUIREMENTS: With rapidly expanding and increasingly more complex Information Technology (IT) requirements, the downsized EFA West IT staff can no longer meet these demands. The contractor must be able to provide specialized consulting services that include the technical design, configuration, implementation, and repair of information technology systems ranging from desktop and laptop computers to network fileservers, routers, bridges, and gateways, to telephony and video conferencing solutions in a multi-platform environment. Specifically, EFA West requires the following: Scheduled and Emergency Banyan and Microsoft Windows NT Networking Support: This supportmay be required 24 hours/day, 7-days/week, during and after regular work hours and during weekends at our main San Bruno site and several other Bay Area EFA West locations. These services should be provided by one or more Certified Banyan Engineers (CBEs) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSEs). Furthermore, the contractor must be both a Banyan Premier Network Integrator and a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. Due to the heavy integration of Microsoft Windows 95 and NT workstations and servers within the EFA West Banyan network, the Banyan Engineers that support EFA West sites shall also be dually certified as Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers. Scheduled Routine and Emergency Maintenance & Support Services: The contractor shall be capable of providing regular ongoing maintenance, support, upgrade, repair, problem resolution, and emergency disaster recovery services on networking operating systems, software, fileservers, hardware, or other required integration services 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. Both onsite and phone-based support services are required. The contractor must have a local support office that is within 50 miles of the eleven EFA West San Francisco Bay Area sites, which are: 1. EFA West main location (San Bruno, CA); 2. Caretaker Site Office (CSO) Treasure Island (San Francisco, CA); 3. CSO Hunters Point (San Francisco, CA); 4. CSO Alameda (Alameda, CA); 5. CSO Oak Knoll (Oakland, CA); 6. CSO Mare Island (Vallejo, CA); 7. CSO Point Molate (near Richmond, CA); 8. ROICC Moffett Field (Sunnyvale, CA); 9. ROICC San Francisco Bay (Alameda, CA); 10. ROICC Travis (Travis Air Force Base, near Fairfield, CA); 11. ROICC Concord (Concord, CA). The contractor must be able to provide a qualified network engineer to assist any of the above eleven locations within the following response times: Routine, non-emergency onsite or phone support: As available, within one week of request; Emergency onsite or phone support: Within four (4) hours of request. Out-Tasked Personnel Resources: The EFA West IT staff may be downsized by as much as 50% during 1999. As key individuals unexpectantly become ill, retire or leave, EFA West may have a need for temporary or long-term on-site network administration services for periods of one week to several months. The contractor should be able to provide this support as required. Desktop and Microsoft BackOffice Migration Consulting and Services: As mandated by NAVFAC Headquarters, EFA West will be required to migrate from Banyan Mail to Microsoft Exchange Server and the use of the Microsoft Outlook client. The selected contractor must be capable of successfully designing, planning, and implementing this conversion and training the existing EFA West IT staff to manage, maintain, and support the Exchange Server environment. The contractor should also be capable of providing end user training on the use of the Microsoft Outlook client for up to 500 end users. Banyan VINES to Windows NT Migration Services: Again, as mandated by NAVFAC Headquarters, EFA West will be required to migrate from a Banyan VINES based network to a Windows NT network. The selected contractor must be capable of designing, planning, and implementing, and maintaining a Windows NT Server network to meet the existing and future EFA West requirements and most importantly, migrating the existing Banyan file volumes and print services to their Windows NT equivalents. Where possible, the contractor may be required to duplicate the functionality of the existing EFA West Banyan network in a Windows NT environment. SQL Client Server Database (Oracle and Sybase) Expertise: EFA West's IT staff must implement and maintain several client/server database applications including the Oracle-based Environmental NORM Database and the Human Resources Personal Productivity Improvement (PPI) application. The Department of Defense (DOD) Standard Procurement System (SPS) is a mandatory procurement database application developed in Sybase. EFA West will be required to use and maintain this system, as is the rest of DOD. The contractor must be capable of providing Oracle and Sybase integration and administration services within a Banyan and Windows NT environment. Citrix WinFrame, MetaFrame and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition Integration: In order to provide access to the DOD Standard Procurement System at some of the locations within NAVFAC, thin-client technology such as that offered by the Citrix WinFrame, MetaFrame and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition has been considered and is currently being tested. Due to slow 56kbps frame relay links to EFA West's remote sites, the contractor may be required to install Citrix WinFrame or Microsoft Windows Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition as a solution for providing reliable access to the ROICC and Caretaker Site Office personnel who require remote access to the SPS database. The contractor should have familiarity and experience with evaluating, implementing and supporting various thin-client technology products such as those identified above.Quantity and Type of Support Hours Required: 20 occurrences of eight-hour blocks of routine, non-emergency onsite network support or other advanced information technology consulting services. 20 hours of routine, non-emergency phone-based network support or other advanced information technology consulting services. 25 occurrences of four-hour blocks of emergency (must respond within four hours) onsite network support or other advanced information technology consulting services. 30 hours of emergency (must respond within four hours) phone-based network support or other advanced information technology consulting services. 1175 hours of various scheduled project-related onsite and offsite network support or other advanced information technology consulting services. Total Hours Of Network Support/Other Advanced Information Technology Consulting Services: 1485 hours of combined onsite, offsite, and phone-based, non-emergency and emergency support. The quantity and type of support hours listed above are based uponnormal business hours (regular non-holiday workdays, Monday -- Friday, (8:00a.m.-5:00p.m.). It is assumed and understood that after hours and weekend rates are higher, which will reduce the total number of support hours available on the contract. All unused funds remaining in the EFA West account must be available during the following years at rates that are no higher than those established for the later years. All information technology items must be Year 2000 compliant which means information technology that accurately processes date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing and sequencing) from, into and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations. Furthermore, Year 2000 compliant information technology, when used in combination with other information technology, shall accurately process date/time data if the other information technology properly exchanges date/time data with it. All responsible sources solicited may submit a quotation which will be considered. The government will award a contract resulting from this RFQ to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to this notice will be most advantageous, representing the best value to the government price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: (1) Technical (a) technical capability of the item offered to meet the government requirements, (b) past performance and (c) delivery terms-ability to meet required delivery schedule and (2) Price. Evaluation of past performance shall be based on information provided by the offeror and any other information from other sources. The offeror, submitted with the quote, must identify two federal government contracts or task orders for which the offeror has performed work similar to this CBD Notice. The offeror shall provide a point of contact, telephone number for each contract or task. Type of Contract: A level-of effort contract shall be awarded. Estimated start date of the task is ator around January 4, 1999. Other conditions before award: (1) Potential awardee must register in IT Solutions Shop at http://it-solutions.gsa.gov; (2) Resume(s) of contractor employees involved in task shall be requested by the GSA/ITM; (3) Monthly Status Report (MSR) shall be required the fifth of each month in the format approved by the government and put into IT-Solutions; (4) Invoices sent to Finance-Ft. Worth shall match invoice amounts submitted in IT-Solutions Shop by the Contractor. Quote shall be e-mailed to the Contracting Officer at chris.matthews@gsa.gov or by fax at (510)637-3869 on or before 3:00pm pacific standard time December 31, 1998. Contact Mr. Chris Matthews, Contracting Officer, at (510)637-3892. Technical questions and/or request for site visits may be e-mailed to the GSA/ITM at marie.hamilton@gsa.gov. Posted 12/22/98 (W-SN282755). (0356)

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