Improve ordering, billing, and inventory management. Networx must provide access to a broad spectrum of industry service providers. Service providers who are awarded contracts on Networx must be capable of providing a broad array of services. The contracts must include enforceable agreements that will ensure high quality service is delivered throughout the term of the contracts. Service on the Networx contracts must be provided by high quality telecommunications providers. Prices on the Networx program must continue to be better than prices available elsewhere in the telecommunications marketplace. All services to all locations that are currently provided on the FTS2001 and Crossover contracts must be included in the Networx program. The Networx program goals described below were developed by GSA in consultation with federal agencies via the Interagency Management Council (IMC). A link to a portal providing secure, electronic access to traffic data (e.g., location, type, and quantity of services) is available at Responses to the Networx Enterprise RFP are due on August 5, 2005. Industry responses to the Networx Universal RFP are due August 3, 2005. This added measure of value is essential for this day and time. The services provided by Networx will help the government move towards greater security, seamlessness, and interoperability, said Acting Federal Technology Service Commissioner Barbara Shelton. Networx Enterprise offerors will bid a core set of Internet Protocol or wireless services to a specified geographic profile.
Networx Universal service providers will provide service to all government locations currently served under existing programs, as well as all commercial locations served by the offeror. These acquisitions will serve as the primary replacement for expiring governmentwide telecommunications contracts. I am confident that the Networx Universal and Networx Enterprise acquisitions will be attractive to customers for the breadth of services and solutions offered and the flexibility the contracts provide agencies to secure leading edge services.
GSA has worked closely with our stakeholders during the development of these RFPs to ensure that these acquisitions are well-defined and provide federal agenciesat low costthe best telecommunications services and solutions that industry has to offer, said GSA Administrator Stephen A. General Services Administration (GSA) released the request for proposals (RFP) on for the Networx program acquisitions on May 6, 2005.
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