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The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego plans to award a sole source firm fixed price contract to the City of Monterey to fulfill the Naval Post Graduate School’s need for high-speed fiber optic connections. These connections will link NPS to other higher education institutions on the Monterey Peninsula, prominent research organizations, and various Federal and Department of Defense agencies. The infrastructure requirements include providing 1 Gigabit per second data rates locally and a committed information rate of at least 155 Mbps across the wide area, with the capacity to burst beyond 600 Mbps for stress testing purposes. The City of Monterey's I-Net is uniquely positioned to meet these stringent local and wide area network requirements, which are critical for data exchange in education, research collaboration, and disaster support. This anticipated contract award, scheduled for February 23, 2010, will be conducted using Commercial Acquisition Procedures under the authority of Other than Full and Open Competition according to FAR 13.501. Although this notice is not a solicitation for proposals, the Government invites challenges to the sole source designation within five days of publication if alternative providers can meet the specified needs. The decision to compete or proceed with the sole source award remains at the Government’s discretion. The contracting office handling this procurement is the Naval Supply Fleet Logistics Center in San Diego, with LT Ryan Tobin serving as the point of contact.

General Info

Sole source contract to City of Monterey for NPS high-speed fiber optic network, awarded February 2010.

Agency

Department Of Defense → Navsup Flt Logistics Ctr San Diego

NAICS

517919 - All Other Telecommunications

Place of Performance

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PhasePresolicitation

PostedFeb 12

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyDepartment Of Defense → Navsup Flt Logistics Ctr San Diego

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OfficeSAN DIEGO, CA, 92136, USA

Organization / AgencyDepartment Of Defense → Navsup Flt Logistics Ctr San Diego

Office AddressSAN DIEGO, CA, 92136, USA

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Full Description

The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego intends to award a Sole Source Firm Fixed Price contract to the City of Monterey. The Naval Post Graduate School (NPS) has a requirement for high speed fiber optic connections to other institutions of higher education on the Monterey Peninsula to research organizations such as the Naval Research Lab and Fleet Numerical Meteorological Oceanographic Center, and various Federal and Department of Defense organizations such as the National Weather Service and Defense Manpower Data Center. NPS also requires high speed fiber optic connections to colleges and universities beyond the Monterey Peninsula such as University of Southern California, Stanford and University of California San Diego. The local connections are essential to the exchange of data concerning education, research and mutual support in times of disaster; wide area connections are essential to providing sufficient bandwidth for research in emerging network technologies and protocols such as Gigabit Ethernet across IPv6. The local infrastructure must provide 1 Gigabit per second data rates to support the volume of data exchanged locally and across the wide area. The minimum required Committed Information Rate across the wide area is 155 Mbps with the ability to burst to more than 600 Mbps to allow stress testing of hardware and software protocols over extended distances. The City of Monterey's I-Net is the only known provider that can satisfy both local and wide area requirements. This notice of intent is not a request for proposals or quotations; however, any challenges to this sole source received within five days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government for the purpose of determining whether or not to compete the requirement. Challenges must include information sufficient to enable the Government to make a determination that an equivalent service exists which would meet the Government's needs as stated herein. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed requirement based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. This purchase will be made using Commercial Acquisition Procedures and Other that Full and Open Competition as authorized under FAR 13.501. The anticipated award date is 23 February 2010. The Point of contact for this procurement is LT Ryan Tobin at +1 (555) 000-0000.