D -- Provide, Operate and Maintain Hawaii Terrestrial Transport - Pacific (HTT-P) Diverse Facilities under Indefeasible Right of Use for DoD, Island of Oahu

DITCO-PAC is issuing inquiry/quote/orders for the procurement of Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) Hawaii Terrestrial Transport - Pacific (HTT-P) facilities to support Department of Defense (DOD) users on the island of Oahu. It will require the contractor to provide the government with end-to-end assured diverse OC-192c indefeasible right of use (IRU) capital leased trunks between locations on the island of Oahu. Each DISN HTT-P OC-192c shall be provided with working and protection paths that have complete physical diversity (facilities and route avoidance) end-to-end. Additionally, each OC-192c shall be provided with physical diversity from all other circuits or systems as identified in the Telecommunications Request (TR) and subject inquiries. The Government anticipates soliciting I/Q/Os (competitive inquiries) for six separate TRs but will stipulate award of grouped TRs be made to a single prime vendor to ensure end-to-end physical diversity requirements are satisfied. The DITCO Inquiry/Quote/Order (I/Q/O) process (formally known as the DISA Acquisition Bulletin Board System (DABBS)) will be used to contract for the HTT-P requirements. The HTT-P Performance Work Statement (PWS) and I/Q/Os are anticipated for release on/or about 20 May 2004 and will be posted to the DITCO Contracting Opportunities Web page found at http://www.ditco.disa.mil. If your company is interested in competing for DISA-DITCO awarded contracts, please visit the DISA-DITCO website at http://www.ditco.disa.mil, click on "Contracting Opportunities." For administrative assistance in downloading inquiries and/or establishing userids and vendor mailboxes, contact the DITCO Customer Service Center at (618) 229-9333. For technical questions, contact Kevin Mehlan at (618) 229-9334. If your company is interested in doing business with the Department of Defense, your company must be registered in he "Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database". For registration, visit website http://www.ccr2000.com. All company's providing information technology shall be Year 2000 Compliant.