United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Consolidated Farm Service Agency, (CFSA), Acquisition Management Branch, P.O. Box 2415, Room 6962-S, Washington, D.C. 20013

70 -- 70 - SOFTWARE LICENSES, HARDWARE/SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND SYSTEM UPGRADES SOL CFSA-R-05-95DC DUE 080795 POC Contact Scott C. Wolz, Contracting Officer, (202)-720-3736 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) intends to procure software licenses, hardware/software maintenance and hardware/software upgrades for 21 Tandem CLX series minicomputers and related peripheral equipment owned by the Government. Equipment is located at 14 sites in the cotton-producing states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, Arizona, and California. The contract will contain a base year and four, one year option periods. The award criteria will include significant incentives for offerors to aggressively pursue small business and small disadvantaged business subcontractors. Only written requests for the solicitation will be honored. Hard copies of the solicitation will not be released. A CFSA/AMB Contracting Bulletin Board System (BBS) is available to offerors to send information to and receive information from CFSA. The BBS is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except for brief maintenance periods each day. Hardware/software requirements are a micro computer or computer terminal, modem (1200 to 14,400 baud) and communications software (e.g., Crosstalk, Qmodem, PC-Talk, Procomm, Smartcom, Telix, etc.). Communications software parameters are: Baud rate: 1200 to 14,400 baud; Data Bits: 8; Stop Bit: 1; Parity: 1; Duplex: Full; Emulation: None, or ASCII or TTY. The BBS telephone number is (202) 690-0193. Use the following procedures when accessing the BBS: First time log-ons will be prompted to enter your first and last names, and select a password to be used for future access. You will be asked some information about your company, phone number, etc. Once the questionnaire is completed, you will be upgraded to Full User status, and can access all areas of the board. When logging on in the future, you will be informed if the Newsletter or any of the bulletins have been updated. If so, please read them. Detailed information concerning a specific acquisition will be contained in a bulletin or the Newsletter. If you have any problems or questions concerning the BBS, please contact the system operator (sysop), Scott P. Cook, at (202) 720-7349. The sysop can also be contacted via the paging feature of the BBS, through the board's message system, or by fax at (202) 690-0689. Any amendments or other annoucements related to the solicitation will be issued through the CFSA BBS. (0173)

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