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70 -- Z39.50 BASED CLIENT SOFTWARE SOL 52-PAPT-6-00013 POC Becky Morehart, Contract Specialist, 703-305-8555, Michael J. Anastasio, Jr., Contracting Officer This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation No. 52-PAPT-6-00013 should be referenced on all responses and is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect though Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code for this requirement is 7373. This is a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) requirement. Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0001 is for 75 user seats of client software; CLIN 0002 is for 2,200 additional user seats of client software and is an optional requirement. Description of requirements for the commercial client software to be acquired: (1) must be capable of providing Z39.50 based client software seats for an initial quantity of seventy-five (75) users for testing purposes, with an optional quantity for 2,200 additional user seats should initial testing of the product prove successful; (2) must be commercially available, Microsoft Windows based, and have a well defined Applications Program Interface (API) that is easily modified using a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) application development environment; (3) must negotiate as a Z39.50 protocol client and must be interoperable with the Messenger Standard Interface (a licensed product from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)); (4) must also support the Z39.50 present segmentation capability, asynchronous/concurrent operations, simultaneous search of multiple databases and retrieval and display of Tag Image File Format (TIFF) image files and include the communication stacks for SQL and HTTP; (5) source code for client software must be provided to allow modification of and addition to the API; and (6) the minimum required hardware configuration for execution of the client software must be an 8038633 Mhz processor with 16 MB of RAM. Delivery schedule: 30 days after contract award. FOB Destination to: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, (2121 Crystal Drive, Crystal Park Two, Suite 1004, Arlington, VA. The provision at FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors--Commercial, and FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation--Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this synopsis to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers and are listed in their relative order of importance: (i) technical capability of the item(s) offered to meet the Government's requirement, (ii) past experience/performance in a comparable technical environment; and (iii) price. Technical capability and past experience/performance, when combined are more important than price. Submissions should include: (a) pricing for CLIN 0001 (75 client software seats) and optional CLIN 0002 (2,200 client software seats); and (b) product literature, technical features, maintenance support, warranty provisions, documentation and brochures which describe how the proposed product will meet the description of requirements listed in Items (1) through (6) above. Provide a written narrative for any information not provided in (b) above. All offers are due fifteen (15) days beginning from the date of this notice, 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) at the following address: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, Attn: B. Morehart, Box 6, Washington, DC 20231. If hand delivered, the address is: 2011 Crystal Drive, Crystal Park Building 1, Room 810, Arlington, VA 22202. All interested offerors must submit with their offer a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certification--Commercial Items. FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions--Commercial Items and FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders--Commercial Items also apply to this acquisition. (0087)

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