SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- TV transmission, reception and switching services
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Department of State, Office of Logistics Management, Acquisition Management, P.O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia, 22219
- ZIP Code
- 22219
- Solicitation Number
- SAQMMA09R0273
- Archive Date
- 8/1/2009
- Point of Contact
- Raschell D. Jones, Phone: 703-875-5319, Kelly M Bracey, Phone: 703-875-6298
- E-Mail Address
-
jonesrd@state.gov, braceykm@state.gov
(jonesrd@state.gov, braceykm@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- U. S. Department of State intends to award a sole source contract to Beers Enterprises, Inc., 969 Main St., Osterville, MA 02655 for the Washington Switch service. The Department proposes to enter into this contract under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c) (1) only one available source and no other supplies or services will satisfy the Department’s requirements. The Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Broadcast Services (PA/OBS) maintains two television facilities located at the Truman Building and the National Press Building. PA/OBS requires full time television broadcast connectivity and switching services from these facilities for State Department content distribution to broadcasters across the world. Beers Enterprises and their facility, The DC Switch is the only contractor that provides peer-to-peer, customer-controlled multi-port source and destination switching for broadcasters across the United States and throughout the world. This is the only service that enables the State Department to have direct and indirect access to hundreds of domestic and international broadcasters through on-demand transmission gateways in Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles and Miami. Beers Enterprises will provide the State Department with exclusive on-demand transmission and reception services with hundreds of domestic and global broadcasters with the following transmission services: 1)One (1) TV-1 analog video fiber circuit, one (1) Switch Input Port from the US State Dep’t facility to The DC Switch facility. 2)One (1) TV-1 analog video fiber circuit, one (1) Switch Output Port from The DC Switch facility to the US State Dep’t facility. 3)One (1) Control System - US State Dep’t is providing a secure internet connection for the web-enabled control system. 4)Hybrid Digital/Analog television customer-controlled on-demand switching centers in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C. The State Department’s original distribution network provided by the Verizon Washington, D.C. AVOC is actually a series of switches that limit the volume of connectivity to 32 fixed transmit and receive ports, but allow for 4 simultaneous streams or paths. The Beers DC switch is the only service that expands this connectivity to over 100 transmit and receive ports each in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C., but across just one path. The Beers DC Switch is the only facility that can provide these robust services and serve as the full-time back-up to the State Department’s original distribution network provided by the Verizon Washington, D.C. AVOC. The Beers DC Switch and Verizon services are very different and neither can compete with the other. They offer the State Department an effective primary and back-up capability, with Verizon offering 4 simultaneous two-way paths to 32 fixed transmit and receive ports, and The DC Switch offering 1 two-way path to over 100 transmit and receive ports. This notice is neither a request for competitive proposals nor a solicitation of offers. A determination by the Government not to compete this requirement is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.
- Web Link
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- Place of Performance
- Address: U.S. Department of State, 2201 C. Street, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20520, United States
- Zip Code: 20520
- Zip Code: 20520
- Record
- SN01840658-W 20090612/090610234736-6f44ded41f63066ce981c5a6179af0f6 (fbodaily.com)
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