Federal Computer Acquisition Center (FEDCAC), 83 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02173-3115

70 -- COMPUTER EQUIPMENT RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (CERTAN), DIV. OF COMPUTER RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, CORPORATE COMPUTING SYSTEMS, FEDCAC PROJECT 108 SOL KRF-95-008 POC Ms. Mary Doherty, Contracting Officer, 617/860-7103 or Jeannine Lemay, Contract Specialist, 617/860-7121. FEDCAC plans to acquire Corporate Computing Systems for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This contract will augment, upgrade, replace, maintain and support existing IBM MVS and VM mainframe hardware systems and their components to improve functionality, and new features, and enhance system capacity for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT), Bethesda, MD. This acquisition is also to acquire open system processor complexes that are compliant with FIPS 151-2, POSIX, Portable Operating Systems Interface for Computer Environments and FIPS 189, Part 2 POSIX, Portable Operating System Interface Part 2: Shell and Utilities. Full maintenance and support of all hardware and software will be required to mantain performance and cost effectiveness, to take advantage of newly available functionality, and to permit equipment resizing as appropriate. This contract also includes requirements for contractor support for the supply, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of hardware and software, documentation, training, integration, and other services reqired to support the corporate computing envionment within NIH. A firm-fixed-price, fixed-price with economic price adjustment for labor intensive items, fixed-term lease to ownership with option to purchase (LWOP) at any time prior to the term of the lease, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity type contract is planned. An eight year total contract life (five years for ordering supplies, services and mantenance and three additional one year-options for ordering services and mantenance) is planned. The Request for Proposal (RFP) will be provided to industry on or about February 29, 1996. The RFP will be made available to industry through the Hanscom Electronic RFP Bulletin Board (HERBB). The Government will not distribute printed copies of the RFP. The HERBB can be accessed through a computer modem, 24 hours per day, by calling 617/377-1487. Use the standard settings of N-8-1 at any baud from 300 to 28.8 (v.34). The HERBB can also be accessed via the World Wide Web; the URL is http:\\herbb.hanscom.af.mil\. Help for the HERBB is available by calling Kristine Levine at 617/860-7122 (0038)

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