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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 2,2000 PSA#2548Fleet & Industrial Supply Center, Regional Contracts Dept, Attn: Bid
Officer/Code 210A94, 937 N. Harbor Drive, Suite 212, San Diego, CA
92132-0212 S -- PAGER SERVICES SOL N00244-00-T-0584 DUE 030600 POC For general
information contact the Bid officer at 619-532-2692; the Contract
Specialist for this solicitation is Mrs. Estrada at 619-532-2650. WEB:
Click here to obtain additional information about FISC,
http://www.sd.fisc.navy.mil. E-MAIL: Click here to send an e-mail to
Mrs. Estrada, Contract, penny_a_estrada_@sd.fisc.navy.mil. This is a
combined synopsis/Solicitation for Commercial Items prepared in
accordance with the format in FAR Subparts 12.6 and 13.5, as
supplemented with additional information included in this notice. THIS
ANNOUNCEMENT CONSTITUTES THE ONLY SOLICITATION TO BE ISSUED; quotes
are being requested and NO FURTHER WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL BE ISSUED.
The solicitation number for this Request for Quote is N00244-00-T-0584
and closes on, 06 MAR 2000, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time. This solicitation
and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through
Federal Acquisition Circular 97-14. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DFARS
252.204-7004 "REQUIRED CENTRAL CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION" APPLIES TO ALL
SOLICITATIONS ISSUED ON/AFTER 6/1/98. LACK OF REGISTRATION IN THE CCR
DATABASE WILL MAKE AN OFFEROR/QUOTER INELIGIBLE FOR AWARD. PLEASE
ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THIS REGULATION WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR QUOTE. CALL
1-888-227-2423 OR VISIT THE INTERNET AT HTTP://CCR.EDI.DISA.MIL FOR
MORE INFORMATION. This solicitation is unrestricted. The Standard
Industrial Code is 4899. The Business size is $11.0 mil. The Federal
Service Code is S113. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center intends to
issue an award for a base period (date of award to 30 Sep 2000 and four
(1) year option years. Service to become effective from date of award.
The place of delivery shall be the Construction Battalion Center, 1000
23rd avenue, Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4300. It is contemplated that a
Firm Fixed Priced contract/order shall be awarded as a result of this
combined synopsis/solicitation. Purchase Description: The requirement
is for Pager Messaging Services in accordance with the Statement of
Work for a base period and four one year option years. Description:
Base Period of performance 01 OCT 1999 to 30 SEP 2000. CLIN 0001: Base
Period, Initial Start-up/ Re-crystallization of pager, (ONLY IF
NECESSARY), in accordance with (IAW), Statement of Work (SOW). 0002,
Digital Pagers -- local. 0002AA Base Period, NUMERIC -- LOCAL. 0002AB
Base Period, ALPHA-NUMERIC -- LOCAL. 0003 Base Period, DIGITAL
STATEWIDE Pagers. 0003AA Base Period, NUMERIC -- STATEWIDE. 0003AB Base
Period, ALPHANUMERIC -- STATEWIDE. 0004 Base Period, Digital Local
Regional Pagers. 0004AA Base Period, Numeric pagers Local Regional
Pagers. 0004AB Base Period, ALPHANUMERIC -- Local Regional Pagers. 0005
Base Period, Digital- Regional Pagers IAW SOW. 0005AA Base Period,
Numeric pagers Regional Pagers. 0005AB Base Period, ALPHANUMERIC --
Regional Pagers. 0006 Base Period, DIGITAL NATION-WIDE Pagers IAW SOW.
0006AA Base Period, NUMERIC -- STATEWIDE. 0006AB Base Period,
ALPHANUMERIC -- NATION-WIDE. 0006AC Base Period, VOICEMAIL. 0006AD Base
Period, NUMERIC RETRIEVAL. 0006AE Base Period, Personal 800 number.
OPTION YEAR ONE (1), CLINS 0007 through 0013AE, Period of performance
01 OCT 2000 to 30 SEP 2001. OPTION YEAR TWO (2), CLINS 0014 through
0019AE, Period of Performance 01 OCT 2001 to 30 SEP 2002. OPTION YEAR
THREE (3), CLINS 0020 through 0025AE, Period of Performance 01 OCT 2002
to 30 SEP 2003. OPTION YEAR FOUR (4), CLINS 0026 through 0032AE, Period
of Performance 01 OCT 2003 to 30 SEP 2004. Descriptions are the same as
those for the Base Year, CLINS 0001 -- 0006AE respectively. STATEMENT
OF WORK: 1.0 SCOPE: A. The Contractor shall provide all support
services, materials, travel training and equipment necessary for: (1)
service activation for up to 700 Government-owned digital numeric and
alphanumeric pagers (local, statewide, local regional, regional, and
nationwide). Maintenance and repair are not required for these pager
units. (2) The Contractor shall provide the required and defined
services according to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Regulations
and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Licensing. 2.0 (1)
Current Public Utilities Commission Regulations. (2) Current Federal
Communications Commission (FSS Licensing. 3.0 Requirements: 3.1 Pagers:
The Contractor shall: (1) Be in compliance with the current Public
Utilities Commission (PUC) Regulations and the current Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) licensing requirements. (2) Provide
government-owned pagers with all common equipment, (i.e., terminal,
repeater, etc.). (3) Provide government-owned pagers with licensing
access. (4) Provide local, statewide, local regional, regional,
nationwide and international digital numeric and alphanumeric
activation, without service interruption, cost or charge in the
existing pager access numbers, for government-owned pagers. There are
approximately 500 pagers currently in service. (5) Re-crystal pagers,
if necessary, during the full term of the contract and at no cost to
the government. (6) Provide voicemail, numeric retrieval, 800 number
access and group dispatch/broadcast capabilities. (7) Provide
international service capabilities packaged on a case-by-case basis
(i.e. quarterly, semiannually, etc.). 3.2 Coverage: (1) Provide a map
detailing the local, state-wide, local regional, regional, nationwide,
and international service areas covered to the Contracting Ordering
Officer. Local area coverage shall have an effective minimum rage of 35
miles form the Main Gate at the Construction Battalion Center Port
Hueneme and Point Mugu, California. (2) Provide coverage designated for
local, statewide, local regional, regional, nationwide, and
international access that has separately priced ranges. (3) Provide
pager access by dialing through the Oxnard and Port Hueneme/Point Mugu
Telephone exchanges at no cost to the government. (4) Provide a unique
telephone number to each government-owned pager. (5) Provide special
features such as voice mail, numeric retrieval, 800# access and
dispatching capabilities. (6) Provide deactivation or cancel services
at no cost to the government. (7) Provide international access
capabilities at a minimum cost to the government and lower than any
corporate rate. 3.3 Ordering: (1) Pager service shall be ordered as
need by the designated ordering officer. (2) The contractor shall: The
contractor shall: (a) Provide a single Point of Contact for ordering
services. (b) Respond to service requests, technical questions, and
questions regarding billing concerns within 2 hours. (c) Acknowledge
verbal orders with a confirming document. The contractor shall list the
pager service by type (local, statewide, local regional, regional,
nationwide and international) and feature (voicemail, numeric
retrieval, 800 number access, group dispatching or broadcast
capability), the number of each type and/or feature in service, the
unit price of each service type and/or feature provided and the total.
The contractor shall attach a copy of the confirming document for each
oral order received during the invoicing period to the monthly billing
invoice. Note: Confirming documents include written acknowledgements
of the government's verbal requests to the Contractor to activate pager
access service; change service types or features, cancel pager access
service, etc. (d) Activate orders of 10 pagers or less within 5 days of
the verbal request and within 10 days for 11 or more pagers. (e) Make
alldeliveries to: (Location to be provided on individual delivery
orders). 3.4 Billing: The Contractor shall: (1) Provide an invoice with
confirming documents in accordance with Section G on the addendum of
the Contract. (2) Provide itemized billing by CLIN against all
established Delivery Orders (DO's), incorporating customer codes and
job order numbers provided by the Government. (3) Provide monthly
billing information to the Government on CD-ROM and hard copy that
includes as a minimum a. Government-owned digital pager service b type
(local, state-wide, local regional, regional, nationwide. b. The
number of each type in use by CLIN. c. the unit price of each pager by
CLIN, d. Re-crystallization of each pager unit. e. Total. Submit first
report on the first day of the month following the month in which
service was provided, subsequent reports no later than 5 days after the
end of the month and a CD-ROM summarizing all billing by CLIN for all
established DOs to the Ordering Officer. (4) No overcall charges. (5)
Payments may be made via Customer Government Purchase Card and/or as
specified on individual delivery order. It is anticipated that Payments
via Government purchase card will be implemented by 01 October 2000.
3.5 Contractor monitoring: The Contractor: (1) May utilize monitoring
of their paging system as a business tool only to keep them abreast of
any problems that might occur within the system. (2) Shall not,
through this act of monitoring, infringe upon the rights of the systems
user. (3) Shall not benefit from any information he hears through such
monitoring. 3.6 Termination of Pager Service by the Contractor: The
Contractor shall not terminate pager service without prior permission
of the Contracting Officer Representative or the Contracting Officer.
The Contractor shall notify in writing, stating the specific causes
warranting termination. The government will investigate and if
appropriate, terminate the government user's privileges. 4.0
INSTRUSION: A. The Contractor shall not intrusively monitor a
particular pager's transmission exclusively without first filing a
report with the Construction Battalion Center Security Department
(PS100) and obtaining a "Call Trap" permission from the Local Exchange
Carrier (LEC). 5.0 SPECIAL CONSIDERATONS: (1) Security Classification.
This requirement is UNCLASSIFIED. Evaluation: The government intends to
issue a single award to the responsible Offeror whose offer is the most
advantageous to the Government offering the greatest value considering
price and other factors. Award will be made to the Offeror meeting the
requirements stated in the above purchase description and statement of
work at the lowest overall price. The following clauses and provisions
are applicable and hereby incorporated into the solicitation by
reference: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors, FAR 52.212-3,
Offeror representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items, FAR
52.212-4, Contract terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, FAR
52.212-5, Statues and Executive orders- Commercial Items applies with
the following applicable clauses for paragraph (b): FAR 52.222-26,
Equal Opportunity, FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special
Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans, FAR 52.222-36, Affirmative Action
for Handicapped Workers; FAR 52.222-37, employment Reports on Special
Disabled and Veterans, and Veterans of Vietnam Era, FAR 52.217-6 Option
for Increased Quantity, FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services, FAR
52.217-9 Option to Extend the Terms of the Contract (MAR 1989), FAR
52.219-6, FAR 52.232-33 Mandatory Information for Electronic funds
Transfer Payment (Aug 1996), FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on
Subcontractor sales to the Government with Alt I, FAR 52.219-14
Limitation on Subcontracting, FAR 52.225-18 European Community
Sanctions for End Products, Far 52.239-1 Privacy or Security
Safeguards, FAR 52.215-5 Facsimile Proposals, 52.216-18 Ordering. As
prescribed in 16.506(a), insert the following clause: ORDERING (OCT
1995) (a) Any supplies and services to be furnished under this contract
shallbe ordered by issuance of delivery orders or task orders by the
individuals or activities designated in the Schedule. Such orders may
be issued from date of award through 30 SEP 2000. (b) All delivery
orders or task orders are subject to the terms and conditions of this
contract. In the event of conflict between a delivery order or task
order and this contract, the contract shall control. (c) If mailed, a
delivery order or task order is considered "issued" when the Government
deposits the order in the mail. Orders may be issued orally, by
facsimile, or by electronic commerce methods only if authorized in the
Schedule. ORDER LIMITATIONS (OCT 1995) (a) Minimum order. When the
Government requires supplies or services covered by this contract in an
amount of less than (1) each the Government is not obligated to
purchase, nor is the Contractor obligated to furnish, those supplies or
services under the contract. (b) Maximum order. The Contractor is not
obligated to honor -- (1) Any order for a single item in excess of 700
each; (2) Any order for a combination of items in excess of 1000 each;
or (3) A series of orders from the same ordering office within 5 days
that together call for quantities exceeding the limitation in
subparagraph (1) or (2) of this section. (c) If this is a requirements
contract (i.e., includes the Requirements clause at subsection
52.216-21 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)), the Government
is not required to order a part of any one requirement from the
Contractor if that requirement exceeds the maximum-order limitations in
paragraph (b) of this section. (d) Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and
(c) of this section, the Contractor shall honor any order exceeding the
maximum order limitations in paragraph (b), unless that order (or
orders) is returned to the ordering office within 5 days after
issuance, with written notice stating the Contractor's intent not to
ship the item (or items) called for and the reasons. Upon receiving
this notice, the Government may acquire the supplies or services from
another source. (End of clause) 52.216-22 Indefinite Quantity. As
prescribed in 16.506(e), insert the following clause: INDEFINITE
QUANTITY (OCT 1995) (a) This is an indefinite-quantity contract for the
supplies or services specified, and effective for the period stated, in
the Schedule. The quantities of supplies and services specified in the
Schedule are estimates only and are not purchased by this contract.
(b) Delivery or performance shall be made only as authorized by orders
issued in accordance with the Ordering clause. The Contractor shall
furnish to the Government, when and if ordered, the supplies or
services specified in the Schedule up to and including the quantity
designated in the Schedule as the "maximum." The Government shall order
at least the quantity of supplies or services designated in the
Schedule as the "minimum." (c) Except for any limitations on quantities
in the Order Limitations clause or in the Schedule, there is no limit
on the number of orders that may be issued. The Government may issue
orders requiring delivery to multiple destinations or performance at
multiple locations. (d) Any order issued during the effective period of
this contract and not completed within that period shall be completed
by the Contractor within the time specified in the order. The contract
shall govern the Contractor's and Government's rights and obligations
with respect to that order to the same extent as if the order were
completed during the contract's effective period; provided, that the
Contractor shall not be required to make any deliveries under this
contract after 30 Sep 2000. DFARS 252.212-7000 Offeror Representations
and Certifications-Commercial Items; DFAR 252.212-7001, Contract terms
and conditions applies with the following clauses applicable for
paragraph (b): DFAR 252-205-7000 Provision of information to
Cooperative Agreement Holders, DFAR 252.225-7012 Preference for certain
domestic commodities, DFAR 252-227-7015 Technical Data -- Commercial
Items, DFAR 252.227-7037 Validation of Restrictive Markings on
Technical DATA, DFAR 252.243-7002 Certification of Request for
Equitable Adjustment, DFAR 252.247-7024 Notification of Transportation
of Supplies. 5252.216-9402 ORAL ORDERS (INDEFINITE DELIVERY CONTRACTS)
-- OCT 1996- NAVSUP, 5252.216-9403 WRITTEN ORDERS (INDFINITE DELIVERY
CONTRACTS) -- -- JAN 1992 -- NAVSUP. OFFERORS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE
AND INCLUDE A COPY OF THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS WITH THEIR PROPOSALS:
FAR 52.212-3 OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS -- COMMERCIAL
ITEMS, DFARS 252.212-7000, OFFEROR REPRESENTATIONS AND
CERTIFICATIONS-COMMERCIAL. Year 2000 Warranty -- Commercial Supply
Items SEP 1996, The contractor warrants that each hardware, software,
and firmware product delivered under this contract shall be able to
accurately process date data (including, but not limited to,
calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from into and between the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including leap year calculations,
when used in accordance with the product documentation provided by the
Contractor, provided that all products used in combination with
product properly exchange date data used with it. If the contract
requires that specific listed products must perform as a system in
accordance with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply
to those listed products as a system. The duration of this warranty
and the remedies available to the Government for breach of this
warranty shall be as defined in, and subject to, the terms and
limitations of the contractor's standard commercial warranty or
warranties contained in the contract, provided that notwithstanding any
provision to the contrary in such commercial warranty or warranties,
the remedies available to the Government under this warranty shall
include repair or replacement of any listed product whose
non-compliance is discovered and made known to the contractor in
writing with ninety (90) days after acceptance. Nothing in this
warranty shall be construed to limit any rights or remedies the
Government may otherwise have under this contract with respect to
defects other than Year 2000 performance. Deliveries from a resulting
contract shall be delivered F.O.B. Destination. Quotes from responsible
Offerors to must be received no later that 3:00PM, local time, 06 MAR
2000. Quotes sent via the us Postal service should be mailed to the
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego, Bid Officer, 937 N.
Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92132-0212. Quotes may be faxed to
619-532-2347. Contractors are responsible for all faxes. Hand carried
offers must be delivered directly to and placed in the depository
located at FISC Regional Contracts Dept., Building 1, 2nd Floor Bid
Desk, room 207, 937 N. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92132. Direct
delivery is only possible during weekdays, excluding Federal Holidays,
between the hours of 8:00 am and 3:00pm Pacific Time. Posted 02/25/00
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