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70 -- ELECTRONIC MESSAGE HANDLING BACKBONE (EMHB) POC Steve Lemoine, Contract Specialist, 520-538-8727, Larrilyn M. Raymond, Contracting Officer, 520-538-8904. USAISC Contracting Office at Fort Huachuca, AZ is seeking sources for supplying, installing, maintaining, and training for an Electronic Message Handling Backbone (EMHB) which must interface with cc:Mail by Lotus, Microsoft Mail, the MILNET messaging system using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), IBM's PROF mail, and allow data transfers between systems using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) format standards and the Governments standard electronic message handling backbone using the GOSIP compliant X.400 application protocol. The proposed backbone must have the additional capability of supporting the following mail systems in the future: electronic mail to fax capability, Novell's Message Handling System (MHS), CompuServe InfoPlex mail exchange, and BanyanMail exchange. Sources mut also provide a 1988 X.400 MTA compliant electronic message handling backbone switch product that is backward compatible with 1984 standards. Sources must be compliant with Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) Request For Comments (RFC) 1006 and 1327 for TCP/IP. Sources product must provide X.500 compatibility required for the Defense Messaging System. The EMHB must comply with the following RFCs: RFC 821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, RFC 822 Standard for Format for ARPA Internet Text Messages, RFC 1047 Duplicate Messages and SMTP, RFC 1123 Requirements for Internets Host-Application support, RFC 1341 MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFC 974 Mail Routing and the Domain System, RFC 1032 Domain Administrators Guide, RFC 1033 Domain Administrators Operators Guide, RFC 1034 Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities, RFC 1035 Domain Names - Implementation and Specification, RFC 1327 Mapping X.400(88) and RFD 822. The work is to be done at Fort Knox, Kentucky and requires a 24 hour/7 day a week maintenance and technical support be available via phone for the EMHB deliverable. Please submit technical literature in accordance with Note 25. Suspense date is COB 01 June, 1995 at Fort Huachuca, AZ at 4 PM, MST. See Note 25. (0128)

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