Department of the Treasury, DY, U.S. Customs Service, Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 4.2-E, Washington, DC 20229

58 -- COMMUNICATION TRACKING EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES SOL CS-98-029 POC Mark Weinstein, (202) 927-0567 The United States Customs Service (Customs) has a requirement for Communication Tracking Equipment, ancillary equipment and services. The offeror shall provide Locator Workstations, Commercial Vehicle Locator Units, and Covert Vehicle Locator Units. The Locator Workstations shall be computer based workstations that shall be capable of locating Teletrac brand (Teletrac) transmitters. The Locator Workstation must be capable of dialing into a Teletrac mainframe, sending location commands, and displaying the location of the transmitter on a street level map on the screen. The offeror shall also provide documentation, training and maintenance support and must have an annual maintenance program. Support shall be provided for one year after final acceptance by Customs under a one year warranty. Multiple Awards may be made by Customs under this requirement. An Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Type Contract with a five year systems life (having options for maintenance and support services) is contemplated. Customs is contemplating having other federal law enforcement agencies use this contract vehicle to purchase communication tracking equipment. This procurement has been designated as a 100% unrestricted procurement. A Fast Track Source Selection Process will be used by Customs to award this requirement. The following criteria will be utilized to evaluate an offeror's response to this requirement: Experience, Past Performance, Technical Capability and Compatibility to existing installed base Teletrac equipment, and Cost/Price. This requirement will be processed using the procedures set forth in FAR part 12, Commercial Item Acquisition with the solicitation and contract containing the applicable provisions and clauses for conducting, evaluating, and awarding a contract for a commercial item. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors, Commercial Items, FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, apply to this requirement/acquisition. Award will be made to a technically acceptable, responsible offeror at fair and reasonable prices. Because this is a commercial item acquisition, FAR 12.603(c)(3)(ii) will be used for establishing the Solicitation response time, rather than the time established in note 22, which in this instance is not applicable to this commercial item acquisition. Y2K Clauses shall be included as part of any contract resulting from this acquisition. Written requests for the solicitation in response to this synopsis should reference Solicitation No. CS-98-029 and should be transmitted to Mr. Mark Weinstein, Contracting Officer, U.S. Customs Service Procurement Division, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 4.2-E, Washington DC 20229, fax #: 202-927-1190, Internet E-Mail Address: Mark.Weinstein@customs.sprint.com. No telephone requests will be honored. Customs anticipates that this solicitation will be released to Industry during May, 1998. (0103)

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