USDA, Office of Operations, Room 1547-South Building, 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250

70 -- COMPUTER ASSOCIATES SOFTWARE POC Contact Point, Beverly Brown, (202)720-8614 The United States Department of Agriculture intends to add to its existing contract, 53-3142-3-1028, with Computer Associates the following software license and technical support: CA-IDMS SQL Extended Architecture, IDMS-SERVER, VERIFY/VTAM (EEO OPTION). Rate of use is determined by MIPS. Alternative sources responding to this announcement may be considered non-responsive if they offer products not priced by MIPS or offer terms otherwise limiting USDA's use of software to process its own data and other Agencies data. The software will be installed on IBM-compatible, large scale, mainframe CPUs. USDA has the right to allow any authorized end-user to access and use applications designed, developed, maintained and operated using the software; operate and/or test at contingency cold- and hot-site facilities and use the products to run benchmarks on other computers. Interested parties may provide information on their capabilities to meet this requirement. In order to be evaluated, respondents must submit clear and convincing documentation. The documentation must include descriptive literature with sufficient technical information to substantiate the respondent's ability to meet USDA's needs and pricing. This is not a request for offers or proposals. No solicitation document exists. Requests for an IFB or RFP will not receive an acknowledgment. All responses to this notice must be received fifteen days from the date of publication of this notice. Responses must be sent to Beverly Brown, USDA, OO, POD, Rm. 1547-South Bldg., 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. 20250. (0251)

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