The United States Air Force, 6th Contracting Squadron is seeking sources for a contemplated contract for the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM)/J6. USCENTCOM requires Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) accounts and maintaining of the DBS and Television receive-only (TVRO) Satellite TV Systems for military and coalition situational awareness.
This Request for Information (RFI) is issued for informational and planning purposes only. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP). It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals, nor will any award be made as a result of this RFI. The Air Force will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this RFI.
This FedBizOpps notice is an announcement seeking market information. The 6th Contracting Squadron is currently conducting market research for vendors who can provide ALL of the following channels: FOX NEWS CHANNEL, CABLE NEWS NETWORK, HEADLINE NEWS NETWORK, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, PENTAGON CHANNEL, CNBC, CNBC WORLD, MSNBC, BLOOMBERG TELEVISION, THE WEATHER CHANNEL, BBC AMERICA, Three Angels Broadcasting Network, TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK, GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK, DAYSTAR, ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, HISTORY CHANNEL INTERNATIONAL, MILITARY CHANNEL, TAMPA - ST. PETERSBURG ABC-WFTS, TAMPA ST. PETERSBURG CBS-WTSP, TAMPA - ST. PETERSBURG NBC-WFLA, TAMPA - ST. PETERSBURG FOX-WTVT, AL JAZEERA, AL ARABIYA, AL ZIKR, DUBAI SATELLITE CHANNEL, ESC-1, FUTURE TV, MBC, NEW TV, ABU DHABI, EuroNews, NBN, Al Iraqia, AL JAZEERA English, Multiple Free to air Arabic channels (pending)
The information requested by this RFI will be used within the Air Force to facilitate decision making and will not be disclosed outside the agency. For purposes of this RFI, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code is 515210, Cable and Other Subscription Programming and the small business size standard is $13.5M.
If your firm is capable of providing the requirements described above, please provide a Capability Statement to Maria McKenzie-Williams @
[email protected] by 4 Apr 08. The statement should include general information and list at minimum the above identified channels. Interested parties shall not submit more than 3 single sided, type-written pages using 12-point font or larger. Published literature may be any number of pages.
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