70--AITC SONET RING Bridge Contract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OI&T), Service Delivery and Engineering, Enterprise Operations (EO) intends to award a firm fixed price sole-source contract to Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. AT&T for Private Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) Ring voice and data services on a sole source basis. The justification for this noncompetitive solicitation is due to Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P. AT&T is the sole supplier that has access to the lines. The NAICS code for this procurement is 517110 Wired Telecommunications Carriers with a size standard of 1500 Employees. THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES and no solicitation will be issued. Point of contact is Mr. Kendra Bell, contract specialist at e-mail address [email protected], phone 512-981-4438.