Commercial Ethernet Gateway (CEG) Hawaii

UPDATE May 6, 2024: Attached are the Government’s responses to questions received. Since there is no substantive additional info provided in these responses, response date of Monday, May 6, 2024 by 10:00am HST remains unchanged.

April 29, 2024: Since there are more Q&A forthcoming, Response Date has been extended to Monday, May 6, 2024 no later than 10:00am HST.

April 25, 2024: Attached are the Government’s responses to questions received. More Q&A forthcoming. Response date of April 30, 2024 by 2:00pm HST remains unchanged.

April 17, 2024: Attached are the Government’s responses to questions received. More Q&A forthcoming. Response date of April 30, 2024 by 2:00pm HST remains unchanged.

April 8, 2024: Attached are the Government’s responses to questions received. More Q&A forthcoming.

April 3, 2024: Response Date has been extended to April 30, 2024 by 2:00pm HST. Questions will continue to be received until April 8, 2024 at 4:00pm HST.

NOTE: This is a restricted access requirement and attachments will be made available only to entities registered under the appropriate NAICS code(s). Access requests must include the requestor’s UEI or CAGE code for verification purposes; any requests submitted without this identifying information will be rejected. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 517111.

ORIGINAL: This publication is a Request for Information (RFI) from DISA IE regarding the potential to implement a new communications service supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) and authorized non-DoD operations in the State of Hawaii utilizing Commercial Service Provider Ethernet Layer 2 services to transport DISA customer communications to DISA Commercial Ethernet Gateways (CEGs).

The purpose of this RFI is to conduct market research on the availability of Commercial Service Providers (CSP) with the capability to meet the technical and performance requirements of CEG in Hawaii and to ascertain if attendant cost savings and bandwidth improvements are likely should a CEG acquisition implementation proceed in Hawaii. Information obtained through this RFI will be used to determine appropriate strategies to meet the Agency’s requirements.

The Government requests that prospective contractors complete and return a capabilities statement as described below to determine current ability to meet the objectives and requirements herein.