Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration NETWORX UNIT PRICER— TRAINING MANUAL July 17, 2007

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 2 Networx Unit Pricer — Released Prices Functions of the Pricer  Unit Pricer  Provides capability to compare unit prices across Universal, Enterprise, and FTS2001 vendors (where available)  Current and past year prices  No login necessary

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Networx Unit Pricer — Released Prices  Unit Pricer  Provides capability to compare unit prices across Universal, Enterprise, and FTS2001 vendors (where available)  Current and past year prices  No login necessary 3 Functions of the Pricer

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 4 Main Page

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 5 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 This icon must be double clicked in order to select it A plus sign indicates that there are additional sub-choices

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 6 Box 1 – Choose Your Vendors You can choose to see prices from all vendors or choose your own combination of vendors

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 7 Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can navigate to a CLIN or Service by typing in the Find CLIN box

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 8 Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN Available CLINs will appear in a list – Single click to select the appropriate CLIN

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 9 Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can also navigate through a “tree” of available Services and CLINs

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 10 Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN A list of the services within each group is available starting on slide 50 The first step is to choose your Service Group

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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 12 Choose Your Category Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 13 Double-Click to Choose Your CLIN Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 14 The Choose CLIN Box Will Show Your Selected CLIN Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN 15 You can also choose from recently selected CLINs

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Box 3 – Choose Locations 16 If a location is not required, Box 3 will appear as below. If a location is required, you will be prompted to enter the location information.

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Box 3 – Choose Locations 17 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.

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 18 Box 4 – Choose Date Range Choose from pre-defined ranges or specify your own range Dates must be entered in YYYY-MM-DD format

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 19 Box 5 – Pricing Options When in doubt, don’t change the default This panel allows you to adjust any applicable pricing parameters such as quantity or bandwidth

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 20 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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 21 Pricing Results Results appear in the Pricing Results panel on the right side of the Web page

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 22 Pricing Results: Navigation Hint To see the pricing results full screen, press the << in the Options title bar

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 23 CLIN Results ‘n/a’ indicates that the vendor does not offer that particular unit price Unit Price Data by VendorDate Range CLIN Description

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 24 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.

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 25 CLIN Results: Navigation Hint Bolded prices represent the lowest price for that time period

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 26 CLIN Results: Options

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 27 CLIN Results: Options— Download Choosing the Download option will prompt you to save the results

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 28 CLIN Results: Options— Download (Continued) Choose Save when prompted to download the results or Cancel to abort

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 29 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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 30 CLIN Results: Options— Download (Continued) A dialogue box will indicate that your results have been downloaded

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 31 CLIN Results: Options— Download (Concluded)

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 32 CLIN Results: Options— Remove Choosing Remove will generate a yes/no prompt

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 33 CLIN Results: Options— Remove (Concluded) Choosing Yes will clear the CLIN prices from the Pricing Results panel

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 34 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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 35 CLIN Results: Associated CLINs (Concluded) For example, choosing CONUS to CONUS PVC from Associated CLINs will pull 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)

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 36 Navigation Hint Choosing Clear Association Filter will allow all CLINs to be available for pricing when pricing associated CLINS

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Total Price Summary 37  Total Price Summary shows the sum of all price results by vendor:  If more than one CLIN was priced, the summary will reflect the sum of the results from each CLIN  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  If the CLIN is an NRC CLIN, results will reflect the first price  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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 38 Pricing Results: Clear Choosing Yes will clear all individual CLIN price results

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 39 HOW DO I PRICE MY DEDICATED ACCESS?

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration Navigation and Selection Basics  Step 1: Choose Your Vendors  Step 2: Choose Your CLIN  Telecommunication Services  Dedicated Access (DAA all services)  Domestic Wireline Building MRC  Select Your Speed (Bandwidth)  Step 3: Enter Your Location  City and State  NPANXX, NSC, SWC  Building address  Step 4: Choose Your Date Range  Step 5: Input Your Desired Number of Circuits for That Location (or Leave at Default of 1)  Step 6: Activate the Pricer by Pressing the “Price Selected CLIN” Button 40

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 41 Choose Your Vendors

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 42 Box 2 – Choose Your CLIN You can navigate by typing in the Find CLIN box … or …

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 43 Choose Your CLIN: Telecommunication Services … by browsing through the tree

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 44 Choose Your CLIN: Dedicated Access

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 45 Choose Your CLIN: Domestic Wireline Building MRC

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 46 Choose Your CLIN: Select Your Speed (Bandwidth)

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 47 Enter Your Location

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 48 Choose Your Date Range

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 49 Input Your Desired Number of Circuits for That Location (or Leave at Default of 1)

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 50 Activate the Pricer by Pressing the “Price Selected CLIN” Button

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 51 View Your Results

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 52 SERVICE GROUPS

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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 54 Telecommunication Services

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 55 Management and Applications Services

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

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

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

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 59 Access Services

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 60 Service Enabling Devices

Federal Acquisition Service U.S. General Services Administration 61 Other Services