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Technology Stocks : Loral Space & Communications -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ok2Launch who wrote (6736)	8/31/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 10852

Sounds like a contract made for Loral... SPACEBUSINESS TODAY -- AN AEROSPACE DAILY EXTRA GSA seeks fixed, mobile satellite services plus equipment The General Services Administration has issued a request for proposals on what could be a huge purchase of satellite communication services. Bids on satellite time and equipment to support distance learning, telephony, pager, data, fax and video transmission are being sought. While government will always have its own systems for some things, said one industry observer, so many applications are becoming available that it's almost a given that it also will need commercial capacity. No top-dollar limit has been set for either the value or number of contracts that could be awarded, but the contract or contracts would be for one year with four more option years. Companies can bid on all or part of the RFP, which is detailed in the Aug. 24 issue of Commerce Business Daily. Responses are due by Sept. 21. Once the contracts are negotiated, a wide variety of agencies, including the Dept. of Defense, will be eligible to use the services. The contracts will be fixed-price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity with no sales guarantee for the awardees. Narrow-band Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) is being sought for voice and low-rate data transmission. Fixed satellite service is sought for dedicated and reservation-based voice, video and high-speed data transmission, including point-to-point and point-to-multipoint services. At a minimum, fixed service is supposed to be in the C and Ku bands. Broadband services are also being sought to support distance learning. Government clients can be anywhere in the world, and suppliers should be able to support world-wide orders as well as personal, transportable, airborne, shipborne and vehicular-mounted equipment. Copyright 1999 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.