Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, Building 504, Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5040

Y -- EXTENTION TO THE FIBER OPTIC DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, NAVAL AIR STATON, PATUXENT RIVER, MARYLAND 20670-5040 SOL N62477-94-R-3063. POC Procurement Technician, Karl Hanson, 301/826-3854, Contracting Officer, Don Mumbert. The intent is to procure by informal source selection procedures, the provision and installation of tube cable capable of accepting air blown fiber optics. This requirement is to provide and secure extensions to the fiber cable plant and necessary incidental work that includes, but is not limited to, trenching, excavating, and backfill, complete and ready for the installation of a air blown fiber optic cable backbone in various locations around the Naval Air Station. The work includes providing and installing manholes, pedestal enclosures, direct burial tube cable, tube cable in conduit, splice cases, network building services entrances, junction boxes, underground rigid metallic conduit, underground polyvinyl chloride (PVC) conduit, tranching, jack and boring, the replacement of any road markings that need to be on the road when making new patch with asphalt or cement, and incidental related work. The required system must be capable of supporting projects for engineering, manufacturing, and development of aircraft and related subsystems for the next 20 years. Procurement and installation of fiber and transmission medium is not a part of this requirement. Due to the constantly changing mission requirements of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division and the 53 other tenant commands located at this base, the tubing system must allow the flexibility to easily reconfigure and re-route air-blown fiber optic cable. This tube cable system must be able to satisfy the following requirements: (a) the incremental installation of the quantities and types of air blown fiber needed to meet changing mission requirements, (b) the ability to remove and reuse air blown fiber selectively with no tensile stress on the fiber strands themselves, (c) the ability to provide expedient emergency restoration without inducing additional splice loss (attenuation) in a single stap process, (d) the ability to establish and change telecommunications routes quickly and easily without disrupting main telecommunicatons services, and (e) the ability to change fiber technology (single mode, multimode or new capabilities) both selectively and incrementally. This requirement shall be awarded as an Indefinite-Delivery Quantity type of contract using competitive procedures. The estimated cost of construction is between $1,000,000.00 and $5,000,000.00. The minimum guarantee will be $600,000.00. The successful offeror will be selected by informal competitive negotiation. Offerors will be evaluated on price and other non-price (Technical/Management) related criteria. Technical/Management factors are equal in importance to price considerations. A pre-proposal conference is tentatively scheduled for 28 March 1995. Do not call for additional technical information. Issuance of the Request for Proposal is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 13 March 1995. Based on the tentative issuance date all proposals must be received in the Resident Officer in Charge of Construction (ROICC) office by 2:00 p.m. 17 April, 1995. There will be a $15.00 non-refundable fee for the plans and specification/RFP. Checks should be made payable to the Treasurer of the United States of America. Mail or deliver your request for receiving plans and specificatons to ROICC, Building 504, Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5504, Attn: Karl Hansn. Telephone and facsimile requests for the RFP will not be honored. (041)

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