D--Sudden Link Bridge Contract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Acquisition Operations (OAO), Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, New Jersey, intends to modify an existing contract to maintain coverage for Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) services on VA Region 1 Telecommunications Business Office (R1 TBO) Suddenlink Communications infrastructure. TAC intends to award a sole source, firm-fixed price modification to Suddenlink Communications, 902 South Clack Street, Abilene, Texas 79605, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1 entitled, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." The period of performance is October 1, 2015 through October 31, 2015, with three (3) 1-month option periods. These LEC services consist of: plain old telephone service (POTS), Primary Rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (PRI) service, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) numbers, Metro E-Service metropolitan-area Ethernet, or metro Ethernet network (MOE), Caller ID (name and number) feature (POTS Line and PRI Circuit (23B+D)), Call Block feature, Call Hunting/Roll over feature, Business Key Feature, Primary inter-LATA (local access and transport area) Carrier (PIC/LPIC) provisioning, and Telephone Service Priority (TSP). The Contractor shall provide telecommunication services at the facility 24 hours per day, seven days per week with maximum service availability. Coverage and services shall be in place on October 1, 2015 with no interruptions to the circuits or services. The North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) for this effort is 57110. The service delivery points (SDP) are as follows: a. Amarillo VA Health Care System 6010 Amarillo Boulevard, West Amarillo, TX 79106 TX b. West Texas VA Health Care System 300 Veterans Blvd. Big Spring, TX 79720 TX c. Lubbock Clinic 6104 Avenue Q South Drive Lubbock, TX 79412 TX d. Abilene CBOC 3850 Ridgemont Abilene, TX 79606 TX e. Clovis CBOC 921 East Llano Estacado Clovis, NM 88101 NM f. Hobbs CBOC 1601 N Turner (4th Floor) Hobbs, NM 88340 NM g. San Angelo Clinic 2018 Pulliam San Angelo, TX 76905 TX h. Amarillo Vet Center 3414 Olsen Blvd. Suite E Amarillo, TX 79109 TX i. Lubbock Vet Center 3106 50th St. STE 400 Lubbock, TX 79413 TX j. Abilene Vet Center 3564 N 6th Street, Abilene, TX 79603 TX k. Big Spring Contracting Office 707 E 3rd Street, Big Spring, TX 79720 TX Submittal Instructions: If your company is capable of providing the abovementioned services by October 1, 2015, please submit a Vendor Capabilities Statement, limited to five pages for your company, to include a cover page which indicates your company's full name, point of contacts and your size standard for NAICS 517110. All interested parties shall respond no later than 12:00pm Noon EST on September 23, 2015 via email to Angel Santos, Contract Specialist at contact@example.gov and Brett Schwerin at contact@example.gov, Contracting Officer.