D -- MSHA HEADQUARTERS MOVE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS

Notice Date

September 18, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Acquisition Management Branch (VA), 4015 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA, 22203-1984

ZIP Code

22203-1984

Solicitation Number

J8R21001

Response Due

November 9, 2001

Point of Contact

Vincent Lynch, Purchasing Agent, Phone (703)235-8454, Fax (703)235-1563, Email lynch-vincent@msha.gov -- Katherine Volpe, Chief, Acquisition Management Branch, Phone (703) 235-8454, Fax (703) 235-1563, Email volpe-katherine@msha.gov

Description

MSHA Headquarters Move Network Infrastructure Requirements Synopsis The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), an agency of the US Department of Labor, will be relocating its offices from Arlington to Rosslyn at the end of February 2002. All work under the contract must be completed in concert with the build-out of the new location space; so that all network infrastructure is completed prior to build-out completion. MSHA has leased 4 ? floors in an existing high-rise building located at 1100 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA. Each floor has approximately 17,000 sq. ft. of usable space. MSHA desires a complete telecommunication infrastructure solution. The contract includes design, installation, configuration, testing and documentation. All voice and data communications hardware including servers, routers, firewalls, UPS, PCs, servers, printers and telephones will be furnished by the Government. All cabling (copper and fiber), cable management materials (ceiling hangers, cable ties, etc) will be furnished by the Contractor. The selected contractor shall be responsible for the design of the computer room including server rack design, cable rack design, fire suppression, electrical and HVAC requirements and UPS specification. The contractor shall also be responsible for the configuration of Government furnished data communications devices and will need to work closely with the architect and the building manager during the tenant build-out phase. As-built drawings, configuration documentation both hard and soft copies, and test results are to be delivered prior to infrastructure acceptance. The infrastructure consists of a structured cable plant, LAN infrastructure (workgroup and core switches), wide-area network connection devices, carrier services, wireless local area networks and video conferencing. To the maximum extent possible, the infrastructure shall be designed to provide high availability via meshed networks, redundant hardware, fail-over capabilities and alternate paths. The cable plant shall be based on an ?Mixed Office Architecture? design concept utilizing consolidation points strategically placed around each floor. The cable plant (closet to consolidation point) shall include 2 data (copper) cables, 2 voice (copper) cables and 2 multi-mode fiber strands for each user (all integrated on the same faceplate). All copper cable shall be plenum rated category 5e (and support at a minimum 100Mbs throughput to the desktop) and all fiber shall be plenum rated 62.5 micron. The number of voice and data drops is approximately 500. At least 5 phones per floor will utilize a power failure cut-over to the Verizon phone system for dial tone. All drops will be individually certified and documented.=20 The LAN infrastructure consists of workgroup switches connected to one or more core switches via fiber uplinks. The core switches are connected to routers/firewalls/servers via copper and fiber at gigabit speeds. The user community is segmented using VLANs. Wireless LANs shall conform to IEEE 802.11b with the eventual goal of migration to IEEE 802.11a and future WLAN technologies. The wireless solution shall include proprietary mechanisms to overcome the inherent flaws in IEEE 802.11b security. Video conferencing is required in one conference room on each floor and in the training room. The conferencing systems shall be capable of supporting H.320, H.323 and T.120. Each conferencing system shall have dual wall-mounted plasma displays. The training room shall be equipped with one plasma display and one smart board/ceiling mounted projector. It should be possible to use the smart board as a while board.=20 The above telecommunication infrastructure solution needs to take into consideration that during the transition period, both old and new MSHA locations must be maintained. This requirement is considered an unrestricted procurement. The requirement will be a best value source selection in accordance with FAR Part 15. The contract resulting from the solicitation will be a firm-fixed price, indefinate delivery/indefinate quantity contract.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010920/DSOL017.HTM (D-261 SN50X9P7)