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70 -- TREASURY DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURE (TDPI) SOL IRS-96-TDPI POC James A. Shotwell, Contracting Officer, (202) 283-1223, Alycia Dougans Taylor, Contracting Specialist, (202) 283-1123 Faith Hutcherson, Contracting Specialist (202) 283-1461. Draft Statement of Work (SOW). The Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, is seeking comments from industry on the draft statement of work (SOW) for the Treasury Distributed Processing Infrastructure (TDPI) which will be the successor to the Treasury Multiuser Acquisition Contract (TMAC). It is anticipated that TDPI will be a 5 year, government-wide agency contract (GWAC) for the acquisition peripherals, software packages, maintenance and training. The Government anticipates release of a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) in November 1995, and release of the formal RFP in January 1996. The draft SOW is available on the Internal Revenue Service's Procurement Bulletin Board System (BBS). Please follow these instructions. To access please dial the following number: (202) 799-0943. Your system must be set at the following defaults: Baud Rate of 9600, No Parity, 8 Databits, 1 Stop Bit. The system will prompt you for your name, business name and address, the kind of system you are using, user ID, and a password of your choice. At the Main System Menu the following will appear ''Make your selection (T,F,E,etc...):'' Type ''L'' and press the (ENTER) key. Type ''S'' to select a library and press another (ENTER) key. Type ''RFP'' and press the (ENTER) key. Type ''F'' and press the (ENTER) key to list files. Press the (ENTER) key to view the list of files. Type ''C'' to view the files list. Download the file ''SECC-DO1.EXE''. The draft SOW is also available on the Internal Revenue Service's IS (Information Systems) Support Bulletin Board System (BBS). To access please dial the following number: (202) 219-9835. Your system must be set at the following defaults: Baud Rate of 9600, No Parity, 8 Databits, 1 Stop Bit. The system will prompt you for your name, business name and address, the kind of system your are using, user ID, and a password of your choice. Type ''L'' for Library option at the Support Main Menu and press the (ENTER) key. Type ''S'' to select a library, type ''TDPI'' and press the (ENTER) key. Select ''D'' for download optio and download the file ''SECC-DO1.EXE''. The systems are operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. An electronic copy of the draft SOW will be mailed to anyone who cannot access the BBS; please send a written request to the contracting officer at the address specified above. Written comments on the draft SOW must identify the paragraph number, discuss the issue, support the recommended changes, and provide the proposed revised text. The comments must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the appearance of this synopsis, in WordPerfect 5.1 on 3 1/2'' diskette, to the contracting officer at the address specified above. Before incurring any cost, interested firms are advised that the draft SOW may undergo further revisions as a result of comments received. THERE WILL BE NO FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS SUBMITTED. (0275)

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