D -- SMARTRING RENEWAL

Notice Date

November 2, 2000

Contracting Office

Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 700, ATTN: M:P, Oxon Hill, MD 20745

ZIP Code

20745

Response Due

November 16, 2000

Point of Contact

Don Chauncey 202-283-1174

E-Mail Address

click here to contact the contracting officer via (Don.F.Chauncey@irs.gov)

Description

The Internal Revenue Services intends to award and renew on a sole source basis to BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.the monthly telephone service to the IRS Memphis Service Center and Telecommunications Centers. The services to be procured is the uninterrupted locat telephone setvice which consists of SONET based OC3+ and OC48 SmartRing Service with DS1,DS3 and OC3 interfaces. The SmartRing Service is deployed in BellSouth owned facilities, in a fully redundent CO, totally diverse fiber path rouths into the IRS Locations. The fiber facilities are buried, in conduit, delivered to the minimum point of enterance in the building, are self healing and monitored to prevent disruption of critical service. Any local exchange service provider must be certified by the Tennessee Public Utilities Commissioner to provide local commercial communications service and be a Treasury Department TCS contract approved RBOC vendor within the RBOC franchised regioal services area. Local communicataion service shall include as a minimum but not limited toL diverse route, fiber based self healing services, monitored 24X7, buried in conduit to the minimum point of enternace in the building, local access for Primary Rate Interface PBX Trunk, DID, directory number and number portability, hearing/speach impair, operator and directory assistance, 911 service, local and IntraLATA access, interconnection with InterLATA exchange carriers, and must have an existing agreement with FTS 2001 network for vitual-on-net access. The local exhange service provider must provide its own facilities, have its own local installation and maintenance technicans, provide repair service 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. SEE Note22.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001106/DSOL002.HTM (W-307 SN5057I5)