SOURCES SOUGHT
60 -- DARK FIBER/MANAGED LAMBDA
- Notice Date
- 3/28/2002
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, DC, 20231
- ZIP Code
- 20231
- Solicitation Number
- 2003DARKFIBER
- Response Due
- 4/12/2002
- Archive Date
- 4/27/2002
- Point of Contact
- Brenda Carswell, Contract Specialist, Phone 703-305-9127, Fax 703-305-5484, - Helen Hensley, Procurement Analyst, Phone (703) 305-8008, Fax (703) 305-8294,
- E-Mail Address
-
brenda.carswell@uspto.gov, helen.hensley@uspto.gov
- Description
- The USPTO Dark Fiber/Managed Lambda Requirement Request for Information/Sources Sought: The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) requires information on solutions for dark fiber or lambdas via Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) between two sites in Northern Virginia. The proposed solution must be fault tolerant, provide redundant paths, and provide diverse entrances into the buildings. The vendors can propose dark fiber, lambdas, or both solutions. The locations of the USPTO sites are the following: Location A US Patent and Trademark Office 11th floor Computer Room 2121 Crystal Drive Arlington, VA 22202 Location B 400 Dulany Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (new construction) Please provide the following information for a dark fiber proposal: Two strands of dark fiber via one path and two strands of dark fiber via another path from Location A to Location B (this path is needed by August 2003). Please provide the following information for a lambda via DWDM proposal: Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and two Fiber Channel interfaces on protected lambdas from Location A to Location B (required by August 2003). For all solutions, please provide the following information: *Provide an installation schedule *Estimates of installation costs and monthly recurring costs using commercial and/or government pricing *Indicate whether the fiber runs are aerial, buried, or a combination of both *Indicate the distances between the redundant fiber paths *Indicate how much construction will be required for the solution *List any known or anticipated right of way problems *Provide a map illustrating the approximate paths for the fiber runs *Describe your network security *Provide previous installations and references
- Place of Performance
- Address: 2121 CRYSTAL DRIVE, ARLINGTON, VA
- Zip Code: 22202
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 22202
- Record
- SN00049568-W 20020330/020328213150 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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