Job Details
CANDIDATES MUST HOLD AN ACTIVE Top Secret Clearance or higher to be considered
Cable Maintenance
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Scope of the Work
The Contractor shall provide all personnel and services. Work under this PWS will support the mission of 21st Communications Squadron at Peterson SFB by providing highly reliable wired telecommunications and networked voice, video, and data services. The Contractor shall perform Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and other services (including installations) required to ensure the Base Communications (BC) are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The BC consists of the inside plant (ISP) cabling, outside plant (OSP) cabling, manholes, Protected Distribution Systems (PDS), Base Civil Engineering Work Clearance Request, AF Form 103, Antenna transmission systems Preventative Maintenance Inspections (PMI), and all associated equipment described in Appendix F, which may include other systems (e.g. radio, etc.). The Contractor shall operate and maintain all BC equipment and systems in accordance with (IAW) the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) technical manuals and specifications, Department of Defense (DoD) and AF policy and regulations, applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Since this location is a northern tier base, contractor must plan appropriately for adverse winter conditions, and the follow-on increase in
warm-weather construction activity base-wide.
General Requirements
Base Civil Engineering work Clearance Requests. The Contractor shall prepare and coordinate a Base Civil Engineering Work Clearance Request, AF Form 103, prior to any trenching, digging, The Contractor shall notify the facility manager to submit an AF Form 332, Base Civil Engineer Work Request, prior to any work requiring structural modification to the facility. Trenching, excavation, confined spaces entry, confined spaces atmospheric testing/forced air ventilation, and marking and barricading of open trenches are to be performed IAW Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) standards, Air Force Occupational Safety and Health (AFOSH), any local procedures and other provisions of this contract.
Equipment
All required equipment will be provided by the government.
Personnel
The Contractor is solely responsible for ensuring sufficient personnel are assigned to this contract and all personnel are qualified and certified at a minimum on Security + and BISCI ISP/OSP installer II, along with Top Secret clearances to perform the requirements listed herein, including those qualifications and certifications required by the OEM requirements to maintain, install, or operate the equipment covered by this contract including current certifications for all voice switching systems. The Contractor shall ensure personnel also meet the criterion stated in its proposal for this requirement. The Contractor is solely responsible for compliance with OSHA standards for the protection of their employees. The Contract Manager shall ensure specific safety requirements in AFOSH standards are complied with by Contractor Personnel when non-compliance would clearly present the potential to harm or damage government resources. The AF is not responsible for ensuring that Contractors comply with personal safety requirements that do not present the
potential to damage government resources. The Contractor shall not employ persons for work on this contract if such employee is identified to the Contractor by the Contracting Officer as a potential threat to the health, safety, security, general well-being or operational mission of the installation and its population. Contractor Personnel shall present a neat appearance and be easily recognized as Contractor employees.
Operate and Maintain (O&M) Requirements
Overall responsibility to properly operate and maintain the BC shall rest with Contractor as described by the maintenance support plan (MSP) (see PWS section 12.3.12, BC Work Center Records) and the OEM s recommended procedures.
Perform Inside Plant (ISP) & Outside Plant (OSP) O&M. Contractor shall maintain ISP & OSP cable and equipment as identified in Appendix F and IAW applicable documents listed in Appendix F of this PWS. Upon request by the COR, the contractor will perform end to end testing on existing ISP/OSP cabling. Applicable commercial standards apply to all testing and test results will be delivered to the COR for acceptance. Preexisting cable infrastructure will be the responsibility of the contractor, as well as all repairs to include all demarcation points and faulty wiring to include horizontal cabling and cross connects.
Preventive Maintenance Inspections (PMIs). Contractor shall perform PMIs as required on all systems covered by this contract IAW OEM recommended or established schedules and/or manuals.
Protected Distribution System (PDS). Contractor shall perform a line route inspection IAW Air Force Systems Security Instruction AFSSI 7703 that consists of a close visual inspection of the PDS for signs of penetration, tampering, and any other anomaly that may cause a deterioration of protection safeguards.
Manholes and/or Handholes. The Contractor shall inspect 20% COR-accepted manholes (which will not be the same manholes) per year under the O&M portion of this contract.. If the Contractor is working in a manhole not scheduled for a PMI, the Contractor must correct any discrepancies before the job is considered complete. Then, the manhole will be counted in the monthly PMI schedule. The Contractor shall inspect each manhole/handhole for the following discrepancies and correct/open work order as needed:
All cables will be identified and tagged. At each splice, tags will be placed on each side of the splice identifying each cable. In manholes with pull through cables, each cable will be identified with a tag.
All cables will be racked to the manhole cable supports.
All ducts (vacant or occupied) will be sealed.
All manholes or handholes will be cleaned of mud, water, and any other debris.
System and Service Outages and Trouble Calls/ Tickets
Contractor Availability. The Contractor shall respond in case of emergencies, outages, alerts and exercises, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
Scheduled Outages. Contractor shall identify, coordinate, and schedule service outages with the CFP. The Contractor shall schedule such outages to minimize inconvenience to users based upon Government user work schedules.
Restoration/ Completion of Outages, Trouble Calls/ Tickets (NIPR/SIPR Remedy), Work Orders, and O&M Requests. Outage/troubles will be prioritized ahead of work orders and O&M requests. The 21 CS CC, COR or authorized government representative can change priories if needed. The Contractor shall respond and initiate repair actions within the specified time listed below from the time the COR advises the Contractor of the problem. However, exceptions to time limits may be allowed, with approval of the COR or CO or authorized government representative, with appropriate justification. The contractor shall repair and/or restore services in the priority order determined by the CFP. The COR or Restoration Priority List (RPL) shall apply in the absence of the CFP. The Contractor shall continue to work on repair actions until service is restored based on priority. The Contractor shall work closely with the COR on all repairs/service or system outages, trouble calls/tickets, O&M Requests, and Work Orders and notify the COR in writing upon restoration of service providing the time service was restored and a description of repair action. The Contractor shall coordinate with Network Infrastructure to restore any Internet Protocol (IP) phone set outages. The Contractor shall log the outage IAW the guidance in PWS section Outage/trouble ticket call (NIPR/SIPR Remedy), Work Orders, and O&M Request categories are further defined as: