D -- Television Programming Subscription Service

Television Programming Subscription Service Contract Description. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and services necessary to provide either satellite or cable television programming subscription services to Cannon AFB government owned buildings. The government will provide a location on Cannon AFB with adequate room for contractor owned equipment. Adequate room will be made available to install the needed dish antennas or head-in system. The government will provide all equipment, filter, cables and supplies or manpower needed to inject the Government Access Channel(s) signal. The contractor will furnish, at their expense, all satellite receivers, hardware or cable boxes needed to provide television programming services to government administrative, lodging and public areas at Cannon AFB. This will include more than one receiver/cable box per building if needed. The capability must exist to change the channel at each television and to be able to watch different programming at each television at the same time. Satellite contractors will minimize the number of satellite dishes required to provide coverage to Cannon AFB areas by using best available technology. NOTE: Residential television programming subscription service is not included in this solicitation. Currently, the cable television infrastructure at the various locations on Cannon AFB is owned and operated by an existing commercial cable television provider. Therefore, the prospective television-programming providers must furnish at its own expense necessary infrastructure to distribute the television-programming signal to all specified facilities. In instances where there is no existing cable infrastructure at a facility requiring television programming, the contractor will provide and install all needed equipment at no additional cost to the government. The Government Access channels will not be required where there is no existing cable or fiber infrastructure. The contractor will provide a minimum of three tiers of service (1) Government Administrative Basic, (2) Government Lodging and (3) Government Public Viewing areas. Government Access Channel. If technically feasible, the contractor shall provide at no additional cost to the government, at least one government access channel on the system for noncommercial use by the government. The system shall be designed and constructed to permit the government to originate programming for the government Access Channel from a single facility on the Base. A best value contractor will be selected using source selection procedures outlined in FAR Part 15. Prospective offerors interested in submitting a proposal for this solicitation should call the Contracting Office or email contact@example.gov or contact@example.gov and register as an interested party. Include your company name, address, telephone number, point of contact, fax number and e-mail address. Tentative date for solicitation release is 1 Jul 02. The deadline for receipts of proposal is tentatively 24 Jul 02. A pre-proposal conference is tentatively schedule for 10 Jul 02. Questions on the RFP must be submitted to the Contracting Office not later then 17 Jul 02. Past Performance information required by this RFP is due 24 Jul 02. Contractors must be registered in the Centralized Contractor Registration (CCR) in order to receive a contract award from and DoD activity. Contractors may access the CCR at http://ccr.edi.disa.mil. For more information concerning Business Opportunities at Cannon AFB please visit our website at http://www.cannon.af.mil