Fiber Dedicated Internet Access Provider

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:

1. Company name, address, point of contact, size of business, DUNS, cage, and contract number.
2. Is this service on contract with your GSA, SEWP, other federal contract?
   1. If so, provide the contract type and number.
3. Provide business size status and representations for the above NAICS code.
4. Provide any previous contract award information for past similar projects.
5. Provide hourly rates of staff typically employed in past similar projects.
6. All responses to this Sources Sought notice shall be submitted via email to Ms. Anna Nereng at nerenga@abmc.gov. 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