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70 -- ON- CALL REMEDIAL SERVICES INCLUDING SOFTWARE LICENSE AND MAINTENANCE SUPPORT SOL IRS-96-0000 DUE 022196 POC Robin Johnson Contract Specialist (202) 283-1246. The IRS intends to negotiate a FIP support contract with Washington Data Systems (WDS), which will serve as an interim contract between the expiration of the IRS's current contract with WDS (contract Tir-93-0030). The FIP resources are located at two IRS computing centers in Detroit, MI and Martinsburg, WV and at IRS National Headquarters located in Washington, DC. The IRS is in the process of negotiating a follow-on competitive 8(a) contract under solicitation number IRS-95-0001. The interim contract is being negotiated on a contingency basis and may not be awarded if the follow-on contract is awarded on schedule. The interim contract shall cover a base period of one month, with two optional one month extensions, for a total contract life not to exceed three months. The contract requirements are as follows. Equipment maintenance shall consist of on-call remedial services in a 12-24 hour per day, seven days a week at each site. Equipment to be supported includes IBM 3090-600s processors, front end processing and peripheral devices, such as DASD, tape drives, printers, and terminals. In total, there are currently 2,000 equipment items from approximately 40 different OEMs. Software license and maintenance support shall consist of continued support of existing agreements, continued support of existing agreements currently in place include MIPS, Site, CPU, and peripheral and PC licenses. In total, there are currently 500 software items from approximately 40 different vendors. Support services shall consist of general non-maintenance service at each site; e. g. equipment relocation and sotware implementation support. The contract shall allow for adding, changing, and removing equipment and software items. Interested vendors may submit written responses that includes technical data sufficient to assess capability to meet the requirement. Oral communication and facsimiles are not acceptable and will not be considered. No order will be made on the basis of any responses to this notice since the synopsis is not considered a solicitation document. If no responses are received within 45 days after publication of this notice which clearly demonstrates the ability to meet this requirement, the IRS will negotiate the contract with WDS. See Note 22. (0011)

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