U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE, 1301 CONSTITUTION AVE., NW, ROOM 4210, WASHINGTON, DC 20229

D -- DATA BASE ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT SERVICES SOL CS-96-014 POC Contact Point, Mark Weinstein, Contract Spec, (202)927-0567 The U.S. Customs Service plans to issue a competitive solicitation to acquire technical services to assist in providing data base administration, management and software support in mainframe and pc/client server environments. Technical services shall support the existing U.S. Customs Service databases located at the U.S. Customs Service Data Center, Springfield, Va. Integration services which shall entail the implementation of a distributed processing environment utilizing client server technology will also be required. Additionally, it may be necessary for the contractor to acquire software in support of this effort. The contractor must have experience in logical and physical data base system design, development, implementation, verification, security, management and administration in both mainframe and distributed processing environments and experience in large data base administration, management and software support efforts to assist in enhancing current data base system capabilities and/or developing and implementing new data base systems. This data base support shall assist Customs in managing its existing and future complex data systems and the commercial in-house written software products used to support these systems and other unforeseen requirements that become the responsibility of Customs during the term of the contract. It is anticipated that an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract with firm fixed prices will be awarded with a base year and four option years. A draft solicitation will be provided to interested vendors in advance of the issuance of the formal Request for Proposals for this requirement. The anticipated date for issuance for this draft solicitation is January 5, 1996. The anticipated date for issuance of the formal Request for Proposals CS-96-014 is April 1, 1996 with proposals due 45 days after issuance. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code is 7379 and the applicable size standard is average annual receipts of $18 million. Only written requests for the solicitation (both draft and final) will be honored. No telephone requests will be honored.Small business firms interested in responsing to this CBD notice or in submitting written comments or a proposal in response to this requirement are requested to provide three (3) copies of its capability statement, technical literature, brochures, and any other information which would indicate that your firm can meet the Government's requirement. (0340)

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