Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary (OST), Procurement Operations Division, M-64, 400 7th Street, S. W. Room 9413, Washington, DC 20590

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOL DTOS59-96-R-00005 DUE 010596 POC William Clark, 202/366-6689, Contract Officer, Richard Lieber, 202/366-4953 The U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary, plans to acquire Information Technology requirements (SIC) code 7379) by issuing multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts in a maximum of four functional areas. The functional areas are: Information Systems Engineering (ISE) covering requirements such as planning, designing, and development of information systems; Systems/Facilities Management and Maintenance (SFM) covering requirements such as mainframe technical support services, lease and maintenance of peripheral hardware and other equipment, media center system support and preventive maintenance; Information Systems Security (ISS) covering requirements such as planning, training, incident response, virus detection, disaster recovery and certification; Information Technology Hardware/Software (H/S) covering requirements such as COTS items and minor peripheral needs that are incidental to meeting support requirements. For each separate functional area, OST intends to 1) issue multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts with a minimum guarantee and 2) compete subsequent delivery/task orders among those firms that win a contract within a functional area. It is the intend of this office to make available to the other DOT Operating Administrations the opportunity to satisfy their requirements by utilizing the contracts awarded under ITOP. The Government intends, for each functional area, to award one 8(a) contract, one small business contract, and as a minimum, one contract to a firm under full and open competition. Offerors must submit a complete proposal for each functional area they propose and may not compete in more than one category (e.g., 8(a), small business, or full and open) for each functional area. Offerors may submit proposals in more than one functional area. There is planned two pre-solicitation briefings; one for current holders of Office of the Secretary contracts within the IRM community and one briefing which will be industry-wide. The former shall be held November 7 1995, in Room 2230 of the Nassif buildig (400 7th Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20590) from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. The later pre-solicitation briefing shall be held November 9, 1995, in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) auditorium, 800 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20591 from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. Offerors can only attend one briefing and are limited to two (2) representatives regardless of which briefing they attend. Pre-registration is required by calling Rochelle Gilchrist at (202) 366-4953. A hard copy of the solicitation is available by written request to the above address. The solicitation will also be available electronically 24 hours a day via the Internet. Both a summary version of the solicitation and the entire solicitation will be accessible via World Wide Web (WWW) Server of Gopher if you are directly connected to the Internet. The DOT WWW Server can be reached at ''http://www.dot.gov//''. When connected, select the link titled ''DOT INFO'', then the item titled ''Office of the Secretary RFP Infor''. The DOT Gopher Server can be reached at ''gopher.dot.gov'' and logging in as ''Anonymous'' or via modem by dialing 1-800-665-6087. Once connected, select the menue titled ''New Announcements and Procurment Information and then the item titled ''Office of the Secretary RFP Info''. Please read the READ-ME-FIRST file for specific instructions for downloading documents. (It is anticipated that a draft version of the solicitation will be available for comment November 9, 1995. Comments will be accepted up to two (2) weeks after that date and may be sent via E-Mail to Bill_Clark@postmaster2.DOT.GOV or in writing to the above point of contact.) The anticipated release date of the formal solicitation is December 10, 1995. Note that these dates are subject to change and it is the responsibility of the interested parties to periodically check the solicitation status either through logging-on the Gopher of by calling the above point of contact. The following Notice is for information purposes only for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to rovide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning STLP, call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting office listed above. (0293)

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