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70 -- CALENDAR YEAR 2000 SOFTWARE POC Contact Point, Beverly Brown, (202)720-8614 The United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Information Resources Management, National Computer Center (NCC), is seeking the following information for commercial, off-the-shelf software in preparing for calendar year 2000; (1) availability; (2) field proven; (3) functionality; (4) performance; and (5) price. NCC has an array of 500 + software packages and databases, including COBOL, COBOL II, Fortran, IDMS, DB2, Oracle, SAS and System 2000 and thousands of programs written in these languages/databases. NCC s hardware includes IBM ES/9021 Model 820 CPUs running MVS/ESA 4.3, IBM 3990 DASD, and IBM/STK 3480 magnetic cartridge subsystems. The NCC is looking for utility software tool(s) that will assist the NCC and its customers in preparing for calendar year 2000. Specific functionality desired: (1) software which identifies and analyzes problems of source code, databases, files, etc. related to the year 2000 date calculations; (2) software that converts source code, files, programs, databases, etc.; (3) software that has the capability of converting dates under all standard access methods which operate under MVS/ESA 4.3.; and (4) software that provides application testing tools (source code, files, data bases, etc) relating to converting to the year 2000. NCC has Mainwares Hour Glass 2000 installed on the mainframe CPU complex. Written responses are to be directed to Sally S. Soule; Capacity and Performance Management Staff; National Computer Center; P.O. Box 419205; Kansas City, Missouri 64141-6205. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. Responses should include one (1) copy of all documentation, both marketing and technical, for utility software which addresses functionality; a point of contact for seeking additional technical information; a point of contact at a comparable installation where the utility software is installed, maintained (a federal government organization is preferred), and in operation; a brief summary of the utility software s capability addressing the four (4) areas previously identified; and pricing data for commercial and government organization. This is a request for information and not a request for comment orrequest for proposals. To be considered, responses must be received within fifteen (15) days of the publication of this announ- cement. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this request for information, and any information received will become the property of the Government and will not be returned to the submitter. No solicitation is available for this requirement. Parties who reply will be placed upon a mailing list of interested parties should the Government decide to proceed with a request for comment or a request for proposals. (0300)

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