DGS to Hold Bidders' Conference for Telecommunications Services Contract.WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Seeks Companies Interested in Providing Voice and Data Services to State and Local Governments As part of its open solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual for the CALNET CALNET California Network II multi-year telecommunications contract, the Department of General Services (DGS DGS Department of General Services DGS Digeorge Syndrome DGS Dynamic Geometry Software DGS Defected Ground Structure DGS Diego Garcia (space launch ground station) DGS Diocesan Girls' School DGS Digital Station ) will hold an optional conference for prospective bidders on December 2. At the conference, bidders will be afforded the opportunity to meet with state personnel and discuss the content of the bid and the procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. process. Written questions received prior to the conference will be answered and posted to the CALNET II homepage at http://www.td.dgs.ca.gov/Services/ONS/CALNETIIHomepage.htm or answered at the conference. The state may also accept oral questions at the conference and provide non-binding oral answers. The conference will run from 10 a.m. to noon. It will be held at the auditorium on the first floor of the Department of General Services' headquarters at 707 Third Street in West Sacramento. The public is welcome to attend. Garage parking is available for $2 per hour or $12 per day. CALNET is a contract for voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. service by DGS that provides the state and more than 2,000 local government agencies with communications services at discounted rates that are significantly below market prices. The original CALNET contract, worth roughly $300 million per year, was awarded in December 1998. The new contract, which is called CALNET II, is expected to be awarded in December 2005. It will be a five-year contract with two optional one-year extensions. Currently, the state receives communications service from a partnership between SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. (formerly Pacific Bell) and MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. . State government agencies under the executive branch of government receive communications service through CALNET, and many other state and local agencies participate voluntarily. In fact, more than half the business done through CALNET involves local agencies. |
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