United States (U.S.) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OI&T), Region 5 Telecommunications Business Office VA118-16-N-1664 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Acquisition Operations (OAO), Technology Acquisition Center (TAC), located at 23 Christopher Way, Eatontown, New Jersey, is seeking vendors that can maintain coverage for Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) services at VA Region 5 Department of Veterans Affairs locations. The Contractor shall provide LEC Services to include local dial tone service, including trunking services on Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface (PRI) lines, industry standard T-1, analog trunks (direct business lines) for Off-Premise Exchange (OPX), and Direct Inward Dial (DID) services, equivalent to those currently utilized through the existing Local Exchange Carrier, with the addition of Caller ID. Existing main and DID numbers are to remain the same. If current blocks of DID numbers are not available to the Contractor, the Contractor shall provide a block of consecutively-DID to the VA for approval. Location: 1000 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. See specific tasks and deliverables in the attached draft Product Description (PD) and Service Delivery Point Spreadsheets. See specific tasks and deliverables in the attached draft Product Description (PD) and Service Delivery Point Spreadsheets. 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. If capable, please submit a Capabilities Statement, limited to five pages for your company. Indicate your socioeconomic group and if you are a scheduled contract holder. If your company can provide all or any of the requested services, please give an estimated transition time. Please note VA118-16-N-1664 in the subject line of your response. Please confirm if you are vendorized in the VA FMS system to accept Purchase Orders and submit evidence of that. Submittal Instructions: Responses are requested no later than 3:00 PM EST, Friday, September 9, 2016 via email to Den-el Opuszynski, Contract Specialist at [email protected]. Submit questions in writing, regarding this RFI to [email protected]. The Government will try to answer all questions.

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