SOURCES SOUGHT
58 -- Request for Information About Commercially Available Cell Phones and Calling Plans for Them
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334210
— Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-04-182-RFI-2
- Response Due
- 8/31/2004
- Archive Date
- 9/1/2004
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS; IT IS STRICTLY A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). NEITHER UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS NOR ANY OTHER KINDS OF OFFERS WILL BE CONSIDERED IN RESPONSE TO THIS RFI. The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD is currently performing market research to determine what kinds of commercial service offerings and related capabilities currently exist for Voice (Cellular Phone) products and related services. Along those lines, NIST seeks responses to this RFI from commercial sources to indicate what kinds of cellular phone products and related services that they currently offer. In responding to this RFI, respondents should indicate whether currently commercially available solutions are available that can provide one or more of the following services/capabilities and exactly how the system works: 1. Currently available cell phones, specifications for those phones, and features and capabilities of those phones, as well as, at a minimum: - Indication of whether a trade-in program for older cellular phones is available. - Warranty offerings - Repair offerings for broken phones not covered by warranty or outside of warranty provisions - Replacement policy of older phones on some periodic basis 2. Details of currently available cell phone calling plans and/or other related usage plans that may be purchased with the currently available cellular phones, including whether, at a minimum: - minutes for usage could be rolled over and/or shared among multiple users - discounts are available based on level of consumption of a large number of users and, if so, how tit works - any other discounts are available based on a large number of users that all have the same service - termination charges could be waived for early termination of individual cell phone plans if they are part of a pool of users all under the same calling plan Next, NIST seeks commercial list price information (or possible range of pricing if commercial list price does not exist) for cell phones and calling plans, as noted above, that are currently available in the marketplace. This pricing should reflect how current cell phones and related calling plans are currently priced and structured for commercial marketplace sales, including any tiered pricing that is available. Finally, NIST seeks to determine whether currently commercially available cell phones and calling plans could potentially be procured on a multiple year contract basis (i.e., contract with a base period of one year and one-year options to extend the term of the contract after that?each year including pre-priced line items for predefined cell phone specifications and calling plans for them.) Respondents should email responses and, if available, commercially available literature and commercial list price information to Joseph.Widdup@nist.gov no later than August 31, 2004. Such responses will be used to assist NIST in determining how to construct minimum requirements in the event that a procurement is conducted in the future.
- Record
- SN00629316-W 20040725/040723211836 (fbodaily.com)
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