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70 -- FORE SYSTEMS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Contact Carl D Edwards, (202) 373-2834, Contract Specialist/Contracting Officer, James K Dashiell, (202) 373-2947. The Virginia Contracting Activity, on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intends to solicit and award a contract on a sole source basis to FORE Systems, Inc for the following equipment: 32 Port Switch Cluster PN ASX200BXE, NM-OC12c Network Module 1 622 Mbps PN NM-1/622, Multimode Fiber Interface 8,000 cell shared buffers PN MMSTB, NM-OC3C Network Module 4 155 Mbps PN NM-1/155, Multimode Fiber Ports -ST 8,000 cell shared buffers PN MMSTB, AVA-200 3 Port Video Adapter PN AVA-200, JPEG-Standard Compression Option PN JPEG. AVA Real Time Display Software - Master for Sun Sparc (Sun OS 4.1.3 w/SBA-200) PN RTDS-M/SF1, AVA AVA Real Time Display Software - Master for Sun Sparc (Solaris 2.x w/SBA-200) PN RTDS-M/SF2, AVA Real Time Display software - User Foreman Silver Maintenance Level Support for One Year for the above items. PN RTDS-U10 FOREMan. This synopsis of intent to place a contract with FORE Systems shall not be made on the basis of any response to this notice. All responses should reference 470/0020Z/95. Interested parties have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to sumbit their qualifications/capabilities to provide the supplies/services mentioned above. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a full and open competition basis. Responses received without the requested information may be considered non-responsive to this synopsis. Oral communications are not acceptable to this synopsis. A determination by the Virginia Contracting Activity not to compete this proposed procurement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this synopsis is solely within the discretion of the Virginia Contracting Actitivy. Please indicate business size. (027)

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