U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Contracts, Attn: BPC, Mail Stop TWF-7I2, Washington, D.C. 20555

D -- THE NEXT GENERATION NETWORK. SOL RS-IRM-95-171 DUE 042195 POC Mary Jo Mattia, Contracting Officer, 301/415- 7315/, Penelope Kinney, Contract Specialist, 301/415- 6576 The contractor shall provide a full range of services to augment, enhance, and operate the AWN and the NGN. The NRC will provide a conceptual design with the solicitation. This conceptual design will be used by all offerors to develop a preliminary detailed design for the NRC's NGN. As part of any proposal submission, offerors shall submit preliminary plans outlining transition, management, and technical approaches. The AWN, which supports DOS and UNIX workstations, Novell and UNIX servers, application servers, and specialized network software; is composed of numerous Local Area Networks (LANs) and a Wide Area Network (WAN). Once a final detailed design is accepted, the contractor shall provide all hardware (includes acquisition and implementation of new technology products), software, and staff support services to meet the requirements of NRC users for enhanced, expanded and new network, servers, connectivity, and computing requirements. The current network, which has over 3500 users, consists of token ring and ethernet LANs, an FDDI backbone, DOS and UNIX workstations and servers, SynOptics hubs, Wellfleet routers, TCP/IP connectivity, security and virus protection, and dial-in/dial-out modem pools. On-site LAN Administrators will be required at the NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md and six remote locations: King of Prussia, Pa; Atlanta, Ga; Lisle, Il; Arlington, Tx; Walnut Creek, Ca; and Chattanooga, Tn. The contract type anticipated is a cost plus fixed fee with a period of performance which includes a three year base period plus two, one year options. 340,000 hours of support is estimated for the base period. This requirement is a nationwide 8(a) competition limited to only transitional 8(a) firms as defined by the Small Business Administration. A request for the solicitation should indicate the size of the business based upon a SIC code of 7379. The size standard for this solicitation is $18.0. A delegation of procurement authority has been requested from GSA. A copy of the solicitation and all subsequent amendments will be provided to each requester. Interested firms should submit written requests to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the address as shown above. Telephone requests will not be honored. Closing date for proposals is 45 days after issue date of solicitation. (0053)

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