SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Enhance and Sustain Core Transport Capability - CTD (Connecting-The-Dots) - Summary of Requirements
- Notice Date
- 11/7/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry & Security, Department of Commerce, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, District of Columbia, 20230
- ZIP Code
- 20230
- Solicitation Number
- IFB-CO-14797-CTD
- Archive Date
- 12/12/2018
- Point of Contact
- Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583
- E-Mail Address
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LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov
(LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Summary of Requirements The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for the provision of of Enhanced Leased Transmission Services to interconnect the three NATO Data Center locations over a resilient ring (hereafter referred to as the Transport Core), as well as sustaining and enhancing connectivity between the Transport Core and all NATO Command Structure Headquarters (NCS HQs) as well as NATO Points of Presence (PoP) in nations (hereafter referred to as the Transport Edge). The enhancements seek to encompass higher capacity and increased resilience where required, in support of the various Communities of Interest (COI) served by the NCI Agency NATO wide. This Project (Serial 2018/0CM03301) is programmed in Capability Package (CP) 9C0123 ‘NATO Core Communications Network Services' and it will implement a new network transmission layer linking NATO entities across the 29 Nations to the IT Modernization Program (ITM) data centers. NCI Agency plans to issue one IFB with two separate Prospective Contracts, covering the Core portion and the Edge portion of the project. The Prospective Contracts will be evaluated separately so prospective Bidders may bid on one or both Prospective Contracts. The Purchaser may decide to award one single Contract combining both Contracts in case the lowest compliant Bidder for the two Prospective Contracts is the same Bidder. Award of the Contract(s) is planned to will be made on a Firm Fixed Price Basis to the lowest price technically compliant Bidder(s). Potential U.S. prime contractors must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, laboratory, etc.) within the United States, 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB), and 3) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government. The reference for the IFB is IFB-CO-14797-CTD, and all correspondence concerning this IFB should reference this number. SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS Please see attached. BECOMING ELIGIBLE TO BID NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate U.S. prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list, however, the U.S. firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. Firms are approved for U.S. NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis. The U.S. NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA. U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/other-areas/strategic-industries-and-economic-security-sies/nato-related-business-opportunities The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email: - the title and/or solicitation number of the project - the name/phone/email of the company employee who should receive the bid documents After approval of your one-time NATO ICB application, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) will then know to follow up by issuing a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) for that project. NATO member governments use a DOE to nominate an approved firm to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project. IMPORTANT DATES: - Request from DOC that a DOE be issued (and, for firms new to NATO ICB, submit the completed one-time NATO ICB application): December 6, 2018 - NCIA issues IFB (target): December 2018 - Bid Closing (target): February 2019 - Contract Award (target): June 2019 and December 2019 - Period of Performance: The Project is expected to be completed two years from the Effective Date of Contract (EDC) with follow-on Contract Options for eight additional years of service that will be funded through Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funding.
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