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58 -- RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT POC Elliott Gilmore, Contracting Officer, 202-205-5414 Fax: 202-205-5466 SOURCES SOUGHT - The United States Information Agency is soliciting information regarding the availability of off-the-shelf application software to provide office automation and radio news production services in 47 languages on industry-standard computing platforms to be acquired for the Voice of America (VOA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., the VOA Regional News Center in New York, N.Y., the VOA Regional NewsCentre in London, U.K., and the VOA Regional News Center in Hong Kong. Office automation services must be available in Albanian, Arabic, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dari, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, Georgian, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese. The applications should be capable of executing in a distributed computing environment that supports the TCP/IP protocol stack and standard TCP/IP application-level network services over a variety of transports, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), 100 Mb/sec Ethernet, and 10 Mb/sec Ethernet. The applications should be capable of executing on a computer operating system that permits the simultaneous invocation of the office automation and audio production programs as independent processes in protected memory space susceptible to pre-emption by the operating system with scheduling priorities established by the user or system administrator. The Agency is particularly interested in office automation software that supports the unicode multilingual character-encoding standard. Firms having the ability to furnish these software applications are requested to provide written notification to the procurement office listed above within 30 calendar days of the date of this synopsis. Firms that respond should provide detailed information and specifications of the software applications. This is not a Request for proposal. (0079)

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