J -- Operations and Maintenance for the Base Telecommunications System at Nellis AFB, NV

The 38th Engineering Installation Group/PKL, Contracting Division, has a requirement for non-personal services for operations, maintenance and recurring support services of the Base Telecommunications Systems (BTS) at Nellis AFB NV. A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on 28 Sep 05. If your company is interested in attending the Pre-Proposal Conference, please provide the name, company position and social security number of those individuals who will be attending. This information can either be faxed to the attention of Mr. Tony Durverney at +1 (555) 000-0000 or emailed to contact@example.gov or email to contact@example.gov by COB 23 Sep 05. The proposed contract is for a base year of 9 months with 4 one year options. Contractor shall perform operation and maintenance on the switching system(s), transmission equipment, ancillary equipment, customer premise equipment (CPE), and the inside and outside cable plant and perform recurring support services. The Dial Central Office Switching System is a Definity G3r, Version 11. The switching system is approximately assigned 25,012 ports and wired approximately for 7,028 lines. Foreign participation is permitted only at the subcontractor level. Copies of the solicitation will be provided to foreign firms only in order that they may pursue subcontracting opportunities. This acquisition is competitively set aside 100% for small business concerns. For this acquisition, a concern will be considered small under North American Classification Systems (NAICS) code 517110 with Size Standard 1,500 employees. Based upon market research, the Government is not using the policies contained in Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, in this solicitation for the described supplies or services. An ESC Ombudsman has been appointed to consider anf facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. Before consulting the Ombusdman concerned parties should first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendation to the Contracting Officer for resolution. In addition, AFFARS 5352.201-9101, Ombudsman, will be included in this acquisition's solicitation and contract. The ESC Ombudsman is the ESC Director, Commander's Staff, and can be contacted at: ESC/DS, Bldg 1606, 9 Eglin St, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731, Telephone +1 (555) 000-0000, Facsimile +1 (555) 000-0000; E-mail contact@example.gov No telephone request for the Request for Proposal (RFP) will be accepted. The RFP will be paperless and will be released using Electronic Posting System (EPS) via (www.eps.gov). The RFP will contain files in MS Word 2000 and MS Excel 2000. Do not request any documents in writing. A registration page for the solicitation will be available at the solicitation Web page. All offerors who wish to participate in this solicitation must complete the registration page which places them on the solicitation source list. Offerors should submit all questions or comments relative to the solicitation electronically to contact@example.gov. All proposal must be submitted in a hard copy per the proposal preparation instructions in Section L of the solicitation. Vendors are required to be registered in Central Contractor Registration (http://www.ccr.gov/index.asp).