Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), Acquisition Support Branch, 1 Columbus Circle, NE, Room 3-100, Washington, DC 20544

D -- APPELLATE SLIP OPINIONS ELECTRONIC PRINTING SERVICES Sol USCA-96-R-S02, contact, Linda L. Round, Contracting Officer, 202/273-2700. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is conducting a competitive procurement to acquire contractor services for proofreading, typesetting, printing, copying, and distributing the opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, NY. Offerors must be able to receive daily electronic transmissions of court opinions in WordPerfect format; proofread the opinions using a skilled proofreader and an attorney who is familiar with federal appellate decisions; typeset, print, and copy the opinions according to Government provided specifications; distribute copies of the opinions to the court and court provided mailing lists at times and in quantities specified; provide diskettes with both ASCII and WordPerfect 5.1 versions of the opinions to the court along with the court's copies of the opinions; and perform other related services. The court will render approximately 600 opinions in Fiscal Year 1997 which will amount to a total of approximately 12,000 pages. For each separate opinion, approximately 700 copies are required to satisfy the needs of the court and its subscribers. The resulting contract will be a firm fixed-price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The term of the contract will be one year with options for the Government to extend four additional one-year periods. Award will be made to a single offeror whose proposal is technically acceptable and offers the lowest overall cost to the Government. There is currently an incumbent contractor who is not prohibited from competing under this solicitation. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered. Request for the solicitation may be made via facsimile transmission to (202) 273-2720, but must be followed up by hard copy signed letter. Requests to be included on the Bidders Mailing List should be received no later than 15 days from date of this synopsis and must reference Solicitation No. USCA-96-R-S02. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (075)

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