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70 -- SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING WORKSTATION PROCUREMENT (SEWP) SOL RFP5-22222 POC Lynn White, Contracting Officer, 301-286-6303. The Delegation of Procurement Authority (DPA) for the Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement (SEWP II) was granted on November 3, 1995. This DPA allows NASA to pilot a new program which makes SEWP II available for use by other Federal Agencies (in addition to the nine anticipating agencies). This expands the successful Government Wide Agency Contracts program by providing increased flexibility for agencies. GSA has provided procurement authority to make the SEWP II contract available for use on a non-mandatory basis, by other agencies to satisfy requirements, as long as they are within the scope of the NASA contract. Contract requirements for commercial products and services shall be increased beyond NASA's and the nine participating agencies' requirements in anticipation of overall greater use by the government without conducting additional studies to determine the anticpated needs of other agencies that may place orders under the contract. Use of the contract by other agencies is not limited, however, NASA and the nine participating agencies will be given priority consideration. Godard will manage how the DPA is spent and ensure that collectively the DPA amount is not exceeded. Three versions of the Request for Comments (RFC) have been released. The first version was released on May 24, 1995, the second on September 14, 1995, and the third version of November 2, 1995. It is anticipated that one more version of the RFC will be released prior to the release of the RFP. As a result of the comments received and the one-on-one conferences, some of the resultant contracts have changed. The contract for Computer Accommodations Program has been removed from this requirement, however computer accommodations technology shall be evaluated in all SEWP classes. The contracts that will be awarded as a result of this RFP are as follows: Category A (Workstations): Class 1 Electrical CAD, Class 2 Mechanical CAD, Class 3 Real-Time, Class 4 Data Server, Class 5 3-D Graphics, Class 6 Software Development, Class 7 General Purpose, Class 8 Geographical Information Systems, Class 9 Compute Server. Category B: Class 10 Computer Support Devices, Class 11 Networkings, Class 12 Administrtie File Server O/S, Class 13 Scalable computer Systems (not sure), Class 14 Storage Devices (Small Business). Augment Contracts (not part of this award). This procurement will begin with the selection of Categories A and B Software Memory Mass Storage Maintenance Integration Services Advanced Supporting Equipment Single Board Continue to access the SEWP II RFC on the WWW at http://sewp.nasa.gov:8000 Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/solicita. (0331)

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