Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Emergency Communications Division (ECD) Priority Telecommunications Services (PTS)

This is a pre-solicitation notice for the intent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Procurement Operations (OPO) to issue an open-market, competitive solicitation in accordance with FAR Part 15 "Contracting by Negotiation" in order to procure Priority Telecommunications Services (PTS) support for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Emergency Communications Division (ECD). The Priority Telecommunications Services (PTS) program, and its service components consisting of Government Emergency Telecommunications Services (GETS), Wireless Priority Service (WPS), and Next Generation Networks (NGN) Priority Service (PS) responds to a White House tasking to address the communications needs for Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Continuity of Government (COG). Through priority enhancements to the national telecommunications infrastructure, the Emergency Communications Division (ECD) can effectively and economically address the COOP/COG needs while also providing a significant benefit of assured communications during National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) incidents to the broader national, state, local, and non- government NS/EP community. In maintaining PTS in an all-hazards environment, the ECD requires: contractor engineering; negotiating service agreements with the GETS local exchange carriers (LECs) and WPS providers; program management; integration, coordination; and operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) support. Additionally, contractor engineering and acquisition support is required to transition Legacy GETS and WPS to Internet Protocol packet-based networks, along with adding video and data priority as the public switch network (PSN) evolves. This pre-solicitation notice is for planning purposes only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. The Government will not award a contract based upon vendor responses to this announcement. The Government does not assume any costs associated with obtaining the draft pre-solicitation documents or industry responses to the draft pre-solicitation documents.