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

T -- APPELLATE SLIP OPINIONS ELECTRONIC PRINTING SERVICES Sol USCA-96-R-S07. 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 Seventh Circuit in Chicago, IL. Offerors must be able to receive daily electronic transmissions of court opinions in WordPerfect format; proofread the opinions using a skilled proofreader; prepare a galley copy for review by the court; make corrections based on galley comments; 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 800 opinions in Fiscal Year 1997 which will amount to a total of approximately 11,000 pages. For each separate opinion, approximately 600 copies are required to satisfy the needs of the court and its subscribers. The resulting contract will be a 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 the offeror whose proposal is technically acceptable and offers the lowest cost to the Government. There is currently an incumbent contractor who is not prohibited from competing under this solicitation. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered. Requests 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-S07. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (116)

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