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J -- MAINTENANCE OF RAMTEK DISPLAYS SOL NRMGM000607085JW DUE 022096 POC Jacqueline Wright (303) 497-5282 MAINTENANCE OF RAMTEK DISPLAYS The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration intends to purchase on-site hardware maintenance for six RAMTEK Display Systems at the NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS) Site in Denver, Colorado which includes following hardware; model 4660/RK2 display controllers, model 3528 refresh memory, model 6012 Type 12 video Generators, model 1922 Parallel GPIF, model 1122 DEC Q-BUS interfaces, model M903 19'' Color Monitors, model 8100-1 Imagedisk Controllers, model8112-1 1.2 Gbyte ESDI Disk Banks, model 1924 parallel DRIF and model 1400 imagedisk I/O interface. This maintenance service will be from date of award through approximately 31 July. NOAA intends to purchase the maintenance service on a sole source basis from Pivotal Graphics, Inc. 655 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, California, 95134. In order to provide this service Pivotal Graphics will be required to (i) maintain their propriety device driver for the RAMTEK 4660's, (ii) affect engineering change orders as required in short order to resolvehardware/firmware problems; (iii) use their diagnostic software tools to isolate problems with the controller, imaging disk andhost interface; (iv) interpreted results from NOAA developed diagnostic software in assisting with the isolation of this problem and (v)support operational use of the display subsystems at the National Weather office. Use their experience with NOAA's workstation hardware configuration to minimize system down time. This is a synopsis of our intent to place an order with Pivotal Graphics and shall not be considered a request for offers/proposals. No solicitation documents are available. An order will be placed with Pivotal Graphics, Santa Clara, CA95054. (0025)

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