United States (U.S.) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Service Delivery and Engineering (SDE) VA118-15-N-0818 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Acquisition Operations (OAO), Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, New Jersey, intends to modify an existing to contract to maintain coverage for Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) services on the VA Region 1 Telecommunications Business Office (R1 TBO) infrastructure. TAC intends to award a sole source, firm-fixed price modification to GCI Communication Corporation, 2550 Senali Street Ste 1000, Anchorage, AK 99503, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1 entitled, "Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." The period of performance is October 1, 2015 through October 31, 2015, with 5, 1-month option periods. The proposed modification is for LEC services to include plain old telephone (POTs) service, Centrex service, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface (PRI) service, Basic Rate ISDN 2B+D Service, T-1 Digital Switched Service, Direct Inward Dialing numbers, Metro E-Service metropolitan-area Ethernet, or metro Ethernet network, Caller ID (name and number) feature (POTS Line and PRI Circuit, 23B+D), Three-Way Calling feature, Call Forward feature, Call Wait feature, Voicemail feature, Call Block feature, Call Hunting/Roll over feature, Call Redirect feature, Third Party Billing Block feature, Primary inter-LATA (Local access and transport area) Carrier (PIC/LPIC) provisioning, Telephone Service Priority, E-911 Private Switch/Automatic Location Information, and Digital Subscriber Line, currently being provided at the below listed facilities in Alaska. Coverage and services shall be in place on October 1, 2015 with no interruptions to the circuits or services. The North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) for this effort is 57110. The service delivery points (SDP) are as follows: 1201 N Muldoon Road, 2C-102 Anchorage AK 99504 3001 Cst Anchorage AK 99503 3101 Penland Pkwy Anchorage AK 99508 4201 Tudor Centre Dr, Ste 115 Anchorage AK 99508 Bldg 58-512 Davis Hwy Ft. Richardson AK 99505 Bldg 4076, Neeley Rd Ft. Wainwright AK 99703 540 4th Ave, Ste 100 Fairbanks AK 99701 723 27th Avenue Fairbanks AK 99701 709 W 9th St Juneau AK 99801 11312 Kenai Spur Highway #39 Kenai AK 99669 43335 Kalifornsky Beach Rd. Bldg F, Ste 4, Red Diamond Ctr Kenai AK 99669 865 N Seward Meridian Hwy, Ste 105 Wasilla AK 99654 851 E Westpoint Drive, Ste 111 Wasilla AK 99654 803 Sawmill Creek Road Sitka AK 99835 5955 Zeamer Ave. Elmendorf AFB AK 99506 This is a request for information (RFI) only and shall not be considered an Invitation for Bids, Request for Quotations, or a Request for Proposal. Do not submit a proposal or quote. This market research is issued for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation nor does it restrict the Government as to the ultimate acquisition approach. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Additionally, there is no obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services described in this RFI. You will not be entitled to payment for direct or indirect costs that you incur in responding to this RFI. Any contract that might be awarded based on information received or derived from this market research will be the outcome of a competitive process. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary, restricted or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government does not intend to pay for the information submitted in response to this RFI. Submittal Instructions: If your company is capable of providing the abovementioned services by October 1, 2015, please submit a Vendor Capabilities Statement, limited to five pages for your company, to include a cover page which indicates your company's full name, point of contacts and your size standard for NAICS 517110. All interested parties shall respond no later than 12:00PM Noon on September 23, 2015 via email to Jessica Adamitis, Contract Specialist at [email protected].

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