SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Network Line for Boyers, PA Facility
- Notice Date
- 9/6/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 517110
— Wired Telecommunications Carriers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, P. O. Box 1450 - Mail Stop 6, 600 Dulany Street, MDE, 7th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450
- ZIP Code
- 22313-1450
- Solicitation Number
- DOC50PAPT1100040
- Archive Date
- 9/30/2011
- Point of Contact
- Heather M. Bakos, Phone: 5712725361
- E-Mail Address
-
heather.bakos@uspto.gov
(heather.bakos@uspto.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office, Facility Operations and Production Services Division (FOPSD), Production Services Branch (PSB), Remote Production Services Section (RPSS), leases 43,765 square feet of space for a secure, remote production, operation, and disaster recovery data center in a limestone mine facility in Boyers, Pennyslvania. The Lessor is Iron Mountain/National Underground Storage (IM/NUS), which operates the facility and maintains the security of the mine. Boyers, PA is a remote location and high speed telecommunications services into the site are limited. IM/NUS leased high speed SONET telecommunications services between Boyers, PA and Pittsburgh, PA to provide a highly redundant and cost effective solution for high speed telecommunications services to their site. In 2007, USPTO contracted with ATT (GSA FTS2001 contract) and IM/NUS (USPTO contract) to obtain an OC-12 (622 Mbps) telecommunications circuit from Alexandria, VA to Boyers, PA. The circuit supports the USPTO data bunkering project for data recovery in the event of a disaster. The telecommunications circuit was re-competed on the GSA Networx contract in 2009. The ATT Networx proposal of an ATT Networx OC-12 circuit from Alexandria, VA to Pittsburgh, PA and an IM/NUS OC-12 circuit from Pittsburgh, PA to Boyers, PA was the lowest cost proposal that meet the requirements. IM/NUS maintains the contract for the OC-12 line as the Lessor, and therefore USPTO must contract with IM/NUS for this requirement. Sole Source Authority: The Patent and Trademark Acquisition Guidelines (PTAG) specifically exempts USPTO from the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA - 41 USC 253). Reason for Sole Source: Only one responsible source: the supplies or services needed by the agency are available from only one responsible source and no other type of supplies or services will satisfy the agency requirements.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/PTO/OPDC20220/DOC50PAPT1100040/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1137 Branchton Road, Boyers, Pennsylvania, 16020, United States
- Zip Code: 16020
- Zip Code: 16020
- Record
- SN02564329-W 20110908/110907000413-72a5dbc2f049d051275cffebc34ad4aa (fbodaily.com)
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