Office of Personnel Management, Procurement Division 1900 E. Street, N.W., Room SB-427 Washington, DC 20415

J -- HARDWARE MAINTENANCE AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR TWO OPTICAL MARK RE ADER SYSTEMS SOL OPM-RFP-95-01482DRH POC Ray Hesson, Contracting Officer, 202/606-1045 Denise Harrod, Contracting Office Manager, 202/606-4116. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) requires the service of a contactor to provide hardware maintenance and software support for two Optical Mark Reader (OMR) systems operated by OPM's Staffing Service Center in Macon, GA. The OMRs are in integral part of OPM's processing of over 1.6 million optical mark read documents yearly. There exists a fixed processing schedule of 32 hours, which necessitates the need for a qualified vendor to provide quick and efficient maintenance services for the OMR systems. In order to keep the OMR systems in good operating condition, the Contractor shall provide, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this contract, software support, hardware support, maintenance labor, repair parts, maintenance supplies, tools, test equipment, transportation, and other related services. Maintenance service shall not include electrical work external to the equipment, the furnishing of supplies, and adding or removing accessories, attachments or other devices. Maintenance service shall not include repair of damage resulting from accident, transporation between government conditioning or humidity control or causes other than ordinary use. Hardware maintenance and software support for the following equipment includes the following: (2) NCS 2020 Optical Mark Readers; (2) HP2486B CPUs; (2) HP12103C 512kb memory; (2) HP12103D 1MB memory; (2) HP12038B memory controllers; (2) HP12006A parallelinterface; (2) HP 12082 BSC direct connect; (4) HP12009A HP IB interface; (2) HP7857 81MB disk drive; (2) HP12076 lan interface. On call maintenance with a response time of no more than 8 hours if both NCS2020 OMRs are inoperative and 16 hours if only one OMR is inoperative is a mandatory requirement to this procurement. This equipment is located at OPM's Data Processing Center in Macon, GA. This contract will be for one year with four 1-year option periods. At this time OPM intends to negotiate with the National Computer Systems Company for these services. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals, however, firms that believe that they have the capabilities to meet the stated requirements are encourged to submit technical and cost information to the office listed above within 30 days of publication of this notice. See Numbered Note(s): 22. (0100)

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