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A -- SIMULATION CENTER SOL DASG60-96-R-0004 POC Beverly Fowler, Contract Specialist, (205) 955-1187, Linda N. Bentley, Contracting Officer, 955-1187. The U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (USASSDC) intends to solicit this effort as an 8(a) competitive set aside for the continuance of the operation and maintenance of the Simulation Center (SC). The principal objectives of this acquisition are technical services, operation, maintenance, and management requirements for the Simulation Center (SC). The SC is a self contained fully operational computer center. The SC provides hundreds of USASSDC, BMDO, authorized contractors and other government agencies (OGAs) a centralized resource for classified and unclassified supercomputer processing, parallel processing, data, visualization, modeling and simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), networked communications, software development, testbed, technical and administrative support services. The SC is located at the USASSDC building in Huntsville, Alabama's Cummings Research Park East and is connected to the USASSDC Advanced Research Center (ARC) via a T-3 communications link. The SC, as a networked tail of the ARC participates as a node to the National Test Bed (NTB). The SC is a computational service provided to meet users requirements, and will require a high degree of cooperation with personnel of government agencies and other USASSDC/PEO-MD support contractors. To meet these computational requirements, availability and reliability of the computer system(s) must be maximized through efficient operations and maintenance procedures. The overall planned period of performance is sixty months (consisting of a 3-year basic with two-one year options). The government contemplates award of a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee, Level of Effort contract. Firms responding to this notice are requested to indicate their size status (small, small disadvantaged, or large) and CAGE codes. The government plans to issue this effort as an 8(a) competitive set aside. The SIC code for this effort is 8731 with a size standard of 1,000 employees for small businesses. A Secret facility clearance will be required. It is anticipated that this acquisition will not be open to foreign contractor participation.The planned solicitation issue date is 30 December 1995 with a forty-five (45) day response time. Written requests for the solicitation should be submitted to CSSD-CM-CK, ATTN: Beverly Fowler, and should reference DASG60-96-R-0004. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. (0290)

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