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70 -- XCELLENET REMOTEWARE COMMUNICATION NODES AND EQUIPMENT SOL 96-99 DUE 061496 POC Contact Sherry A. Smallwood, Contract Specialist at (404)842-6553 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a requirement to increase our current license to distribute the Xcellenet Remoteware Communications node and Mail Node software products from 50 nodes to 250 nodes, and upgrade the current Xcellenet Remoteware server software to Model 2/Version 2.0. Solicitation #96-99(N) will be issued on approximately May 15, 1996 to Xcellenet, Inc., 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328 on a sole source basis. Xcellenet, Inc. is the only known firm capable of providing this requirement. Authority: FAR 6.302-1, Citation 40 USC 759(g). Justification: Software is available from only one source and no other type of software will satisfy agency requirements. The Remoteware software has been incorporated into the IDEAS data base management software system that CDC has developed and have been using in our NNIS hospitals since 1984. The Remoteware software enables CDC to electronically transfer data from participating NNIS hospitals, process that data in real time on an OS2-based Remoteware server, and then transfer a program back to the hospital that is then run on the client machine to acknowledge successful receipt of the data. In addition, an e-mail capability is provided that has proven crucial in monitoring the quality of the data being collected by our NNIS hospitals. Most of the NNIS hospitals do not have access to the Internet yet, nor have access to any other method of communicating with us via e-mail. The Remoteware software also enables CDC to automatically check to be sure that all of the files in the IDEAS software system are the latest version, and to distribute updates of the software whenever discrepancies are discovered. Finally, the Remoteware software enables CDC to take control of the client machine and execute the IDEAS software from CDC, greatly improving CDC's ability to provide technical support to participating hospitals. Only written or facsimile requests for the solicitation package will be honored. See Note 22. (0115)

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