U S General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Networx Unit Pricer— Training Manual July 17, 2007

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Networx Unit Pricer — Released Prices http: //releasedprices. networx. gov Functions of the Pricer Ø Unit Pricer Provides capability to compare unit prices across Universal, Enterprise, and FTS 2001 vendors (where available) Ø Current and past year prices Ø No login necessary 2

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Main Page 3

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Navigation and Selection Basics If it’s a plus/minus sign, single click on the plus/minus sign to select or double click on the title itself A plus sign indicates that there additional subchoices This icon must be double clicked in order to select it 4

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 1 – Choose Your Vendors You can choose to see prices from all vendors or choose your own combination of vendors 5

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can navigate to a CLIN or Service by typing in the Find CLIN box 6

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN Available CLINs will appear in a list – Single click to select the appropriate CLIN 7

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can also navigate through a “tree” of available Services and CLINs 8

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN The first step is to choose your Service Group A list of the services within each group is available starting on slide 50 9

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN Choose Your Service 10

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN Choose Your Category 11

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN Double-Click to Choose Your CLIN 12

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN The Choose CLIN Box Will Show Your Selected CLIN 13

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can also choose from recently selected CLINs 14

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 3 – Choose Locations If a location is required, you will be prompted to enter the location information. If a location is not required, Box 3 will appear as below. 15

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 3 – Choose Locations Enter your desired location in the text field. Finish by pressing enter. You can enter any of the following information and the pricer will map results to the nearest wire center: street address with city/state; NPANXX; NSC; SWC; zip code; or city and state. 16

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 4 – Choose Date Range Choose from pre-defined ranges or specify your own range Dates must be entered in YYYY-MM-DD format 17

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 5 – Pricing Options This panel allows you to adjust any applicable pricing parameters such as quantity or bandwidth When in doubt, don’t change the default 18

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 6 – Activating the Pricer Once all choices have been made in Boxes 1 through 5, press the “Price Selected CLIN” button to cue the pricer to retrieve your results 19

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Pricing Results appear in the Pricing Results panel on the right side of the Web page 20

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Pricing Results: Navigation Hint To see the pricing results full screen, press the << in the Options title bar 21

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results ‘n/a’ indicates that the vendor does not offer that particular unit price CLIN Description Date Range Unit Price Data by Vendor 22

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results (Concluded) Each CLIN has a frequency. Frequency types are MRC, NRC, and Usage. CLINs are either Routine or Critical. Each CLIN has a Unit Type. This is the quantity from Box 5. 23

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Navigation Hint Bolded prices represent the lowest price for that time period 24

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options 25

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Download Choosing the Download option will prompt you to save the results 26

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Download (Continued) Choose Save when prompted to download the results or Cancel to abort 27

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Download (Continued) Navigate to your preferred save location and then select Save to download your results or choose Cancel to abort the action 28

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Download (Continued) A dialogue box will indicate that your results have been downloaded 29

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Download (Concluded) 30

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Remove Choosing Remove will generate a yes/no prompt 31

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Options—Remove (Concluded) Choosing Yes will clear the CLIN prices from the Pricing Results panel 32

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Associated CLINs If there are CLINs that are associated with the priced CLIN, they will be listed under the Associated drop down Single clicking on an associated category will automatically pull the relevant CLINs in Box 2 to allow you to choose them for pricing 33

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service CLIN Results: Associated CLINs For example, choosing CONUS to CONUS PVC from Associated CLINs will pull (Concluded) up the appropriate CLINs in the Options panel Choices will be constrained to CLIN characteristics that are equivalent to the original CLIN (grayed out CLINs are not appropriate choices) 34

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Navigation Hint Choosing Clear Association Filter will allow all CLINs to be available for pricing when pricing associated CLINS 35

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Total Price Summary shows the sum of all price results by vendor: Ø If more than one CLIN was priced, the summary will reflect the sum of the results from each CLIN Ø If the CLIN is an MRC CLIN, results will reflect the multiplication of the # of months in the chosen time period by the price; if the date range encompasses more than a single year, annual results will be summed together Ø If the CLIN is an NRC CLIN, results will reflect the first price Ø If the CLIN is a Usage CLIN, results will reflect the CLIN price multiplied by the quantity specified in Box 5 and then multiplied over the # of months in the chosen time period 36

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Pricing Results: Clear Choosing Yes will clear all individual CLIN price results 37

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service HOW DO I PRICE MY DEDICATED ACCESS? 38

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Navigation and Selection Basics Ø Step 1: Choose Your Vendors Ø Step 4: Choose Your Date Range Ø Step 2: Choose Your CLIN Ø Step 5: Input Your Telecommunication Services Desired Number Dedicated Access (DAA all of Circuits for That services) Location (or Leave Domestic Wireline Building at Default of 1) MRC Ø Step 6: Activate Select Your Speed (Bandwidth) the Pricer by Ø Step 3: Enter Your Location Pressing the “Price Selected City and State CLIN” Button NPANXX, NSC, SWC 39

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your Vendors 40

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can navigate by typing in the Find CLIN box … or … 41

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your CLIN: Telecommunication Services … by browsing through the tree 42

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your CLIN: Dedicated Access 43

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your CLIN: Domestic Wireline Building MRC 44

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your CLIN: Select Your Speed (Bandwidth) 45

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Enter Your Location 46

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Choose Your Date Range 47

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Input Your Desired Number of Circuits for That Location (or Leave at Default of 1) 48

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Activate the Pricer by Pressing the “Price Selected CLIN” Button 49

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service View Your Results 50

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service SERVICE GROUPS 51

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Groups 52

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Telecommunication Services 53

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Management and Applications Services 54

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Security Services 55

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Special Services 56

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Wireless Services 57

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Access Services 58

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Enabling Devices 59

U. S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Other Services 60