THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS ISSUED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL AND PLANNING PURPOSES AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION. No formal solicitation documents exist at this present time. Responses to this Sources Sought notice will be utilized by the Government to make appropriate acquisition decisions. After review of the responses to this Sources Sought notice, a solicitation announcement may be published via SAM.gov | Contract Opportunities. This notice constitutes market research for fiber dedicated Internet access (DIA) at all ABMC sites listed in Figure 1 below. About ABMC The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent agency established under authority of Chapter 21 of Title 36 U.S.C. Its mission is to commemorate the sacrifices and achievements of the United States armed forces. It accomplishes this mission through the administration, operation, and maintenance of commemorative cemeteries and memorials in 17 countries around the world, including the United States. Overview: ABMC is seeking a new fiber dedicated Internet access provider (Contractor) to provide Tier I broadband connectivity and Internet services to its 1) global sites and offices, and 2) nearby cemetery Superintendent quarters. ABMC contracted its current fiber aggregator provider GTT to build the physical connectivity between the provider’s network to ABMC’s cemeteries and offices. However, current speeds range from only 100Mb/s at several cemetery sites, to 1Gb/s at HQ in Arlington, and Paris, France offices. The current contract term is through approximately July 2023. ABMC’s goals in issuing this RFI are to: Identify strategies for connecting ABMC global sites, and Superintendents’ living/residential quarters located within cemetery grounds to reliable, modern, and secure broadband and to stimulate interest in providing last-mile broadband access to all ABMC sites. Please note that two separate broadband needs and funding sources are identified, including ABMC official sites outlined in Figure 1 below, and nearby Superintendent quarters, which are private residences with non-commercial billing requirements. Identify ideas and/or recommendations on how to speed up any necessary construction and deployment of broadband infrastructure to support ABMC events. Identify options to provide broadband up to 10Gb/s for ABMC events. Identify suggestions on how ABMC can leverage partnerships, utilize existing assets, and/or take other steps to expedite broadband deployment and reduce costs. Identify potential challenges and/or barriers to the expansion of fiber to Superintendent quarters. Identify gaps in coverage areas, access, speeds, affordability, and reliability, and methods to obtain such data. Obtain information on potential technology solutions that might enable broadband access for remote ABMC sites. Identify regional considerations that be relevant to ABMC’s ability to meet its business goals. Objectives: Contractor shall provide all management, personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to Engineer, Furnish, Install and Test (EFI&T) fiber optic cabling and associated man holes, hand holes, and duct paths between the provider’s nearest and/or most optimized route to ABMC’s sites and cemeteries’ network closet and the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendents quarters, using Residential Fiber (FTTH). Contractor may use existing single strand fiber where available on ABMC premises and do not need to furnish new fiber cable(s) to the network closet. Secondly, Contractor shall provide Tier I Internet Service Provider (ISP) connections and related security services (e.g. site monitoring, DDoS) for all ABMC sites utilizing the physical network. The proposed service must have the ability to deliver bandwidth capacity: ABMC sites: Up to 1Gb/s to ABMC’s Arlington and Paris offices, 1Gbp/s to all other sites with burstable rate up to 10Gb/s on an as needed monthly basis, Superintendents’ quarters: 100Mb/s minimum and up to 1Gb/s to Superintendents’ quarters. REQUESTED INFORMATION . If you are interested, capable, and can provide the required services, please provide the requested information as indicated below: Company name, address, point of contact, size of business, DUNS, cage, and contract number. Is this service on contract with your GSA, SEWP, other federal contract? If so, provide the contract type and number. Provide business size status and representations for the above NAICS code. Provide any previous contract award information for past similar projects. Provide hourly rates of staff typically employed in past similar projects. All responses to this Sources Sought notice shall be submitted via email to Ms. Anna Nereng at
[email protected]. Telephone, Fax, or any other form of communication inquiries will not be reviewed or accepted in response to this Sources Sought notice. Responses must be received no later than January 10, 2023 by 1300 EDT. DISCLAIMER: All information received in response to this RFI marked as proprietary will be handled in accordance with (IAW) Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e). Response to this notice is not an offer and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses incurred responding to this Sources Sought notice. Figure 1: France Paris Office 32 rue Monceau, 75008 Paris Brittany American Cemetery 50240, Saint James Aisne-Marne American Cemetery 2400, Belleau Epinal American Cemetery 385, rue de la Rondenolle, 88000 Dinozé Lorraine American Cemetery Avenue de Fayetteville, 57500 St Avold Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Rue du Général Pershing, 55110 Romagne-sous-Montfaucon Normandy American Cemetery American Cemetery, 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer Oise-Aisne American Cemetery CD2, 02130 Seringes-et- Nesles Pointe du Hoc Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument, 14450 Cricqueville-en-Bessin Rhone American Cemetery 553 blvd John F. Kennedy, 83300 Draguignan Saint-Mihiel American Cemetery Route de Verdun, 54470 Thiaucourt Somme American Cemetery 02420 Bony Suresnes American Cemetery 123 Boulevard Washington, 92150 Suresnes Château Thierry American Cemetery Route du Monument, 02400 Château-Thierry Lafayette Escadrille Monument Cemetery 5 Boulevard Raymond Poincaré, 92430 Marnes-la-Coquette Belgium Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery 159, rue du Mémorial Américain, 4852 Hombourg Ardennes American Cemetery 164, route du Condroz, B-4121 Neupré, Liege Flanders-Fields American Cemetery Wortegemseweg 117, 8790 Waregem Italy Sicily Rome American Cemetery Piazzale Kennedy, 1, 00048 Nettuno Florence American Cemetery Via Cassia S.N., 50023 Tavarnuzze (Firenze), Impruneta Luxembourg Luxembourg American Cemetery 50, Val du Scheid, 2517 Luxembourg Netherlands Netherlands American Cemetery AM Begraafplaats 1, 6269 NA Margraten Philippines Manila American Cemetery McKinley Road, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City 1634, Philippine Clark Veterans Cemetery Manuel A. Roxas Highway, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines United Kingdom Cambridge American Cemetery Madingley Road, Coton CB23 7PH, Cambridge Brookwood American Cemetery Dawney Hill - Brookwood, Woking GU 240 JB, Surrey Tunisia Tunis American Cemetery BP 346 Sidi Bou Said, 2026 Tunis Panama Corozal American Cemetery Calle Rufina Alfaro, Edif. #6566, Corozal Mexico Mexico City US National Cemetery Virginia Fabregas No. 31, Col. San Rafeal, C.P. 06470, Mexico, D.F, Mexico City, Mexico United States Arlington Washington DC Headquarters Courthouse Plaza II Ste 500, 2300 Clarendon Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201