S--Cell Phones & Associated Service for USEPA-Cincinnati

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a requirement for cellular phones and associated nationwide digital cellular phone service. The required phones will be utilized by EPA personnel who are organizationally assigned to offices in Cincinnati, although some of these personnel are physically stationed at EPA facilities in other states and in Washington, DC. EPA currently owns 79 non-secure and 11 secure phones, and the Contractor shall provide new replacement phones for these existing phones at the outset of the contract, along with associated service. EPA will have the option of ordering additional secure and non-secure phones and associated service through the life of the contract. The digital telephone service provided by the Contractor must operate within EPA?s AWBERC facility in Cincinnati and anywhere within the 50 states. Additionally, the Contractor must provide a package that allows all telephones, non-secure and secure, to share a monthly block of minutes, with no roaming or long distance charges. The secure phones must have secure wireless Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) phone service and circuit switched data service. A fixed-price contract is contemplated, with a one-year base period of performance plus four one-year option periods. Evaluation of proposals will be on a best-value basis, considering price as well as non-price factors such as technical approach. The solicitation will be released through the internet on EPA?s home page at www.epa.gov/oam/cinn_cmd/. Prospective offerors can download the Request for Proposals and related documents from this website on or about September 8, 2005. Telephone requests will not be honored.