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70 -- COMPUTER EQUIPMENT RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (CERTAN), DIV. OF COMPUTER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, CORPORATE COMPUTING SYSTEM, FEDCAC PROJECT 108 SOL KRF-95-008 POC Ms. Mary Doherty, Contracting Officer, 617/860-7103 or Jeannine Lemay, Contract Specialist, 617/860-7121. FEDCAC plans to acquire Corporate Computing Systems for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This contract will augment, upgrade, replace, maintain and support existing IBM MVS and VM mainframe hardware systems and their components to improve functionality, add new features, and enhance system capacity for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Computer Research and Technolgy (DCRT), Bethesda, MD. This acquisition is also to acquire open system processor complexes that are compliant with FIPS 151-2, POSIX, Portable Operating Systems Interface for Computer Environments and FIPS 189, Part 2 POSIX, Portable Operating System Interface Part 2: Shell and Utilities. Full maintenance and support of all hardware and software will be required to maintain performance and cost effectiveness, to take advantage of newly available funtionality, and to permit equipment resizing as appropriate. This contract also includes requirements for contractor support of the supply, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of hardware and software, documentation, training, integration, and other services required to support the corporate computing environment within NIH. A firm-fixed-price, fixed-price with economic price adjustment for labor intensive items, fixed-term lease to ownership with option to purchase (LWOP) at any time prior to the term of the lease, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity type contract is planned. An eight year total contract life (five years for ordering supplies, services and maintenance and three additional one year options for ordering services and maintenance) is planned. A Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) will be provided to industry on or about October 31, 1995. The Government will not distribute printed copies of the Draft RFP. A printed copy is available at FEDCAC for inspection. Inspection of the draft RFP will be by appointment only. Contact Kristine Levine at 617/860-7122 or Jeannine Lemay at 617/860-7121 of FEDCAC to schedule an ppointment. Vendors may print a copy of the Draft RFP at their own expense. A list of copying service companies in the area will be provided. The Draft RFP will be available to industry through the Hanscom Electronic RFP Bulletin Board (HERBB). The HERBB can be accessed through a computer modem, 24 hours per day, by calling 617/274-0500. Use the standard settings of N-8-1 at any baud from 300 to 28.8 (v.34). Help for the HERBB is available by calling Wayne Hoover at 617/860-7136 or Dick Gauthier at 617/860-7166 of FEDCAC. (0276)

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