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U -- BANYAN VINES NETWORK PROBLEM SOLVING AND CERTIFICATION TRAINING Sol M67400-96-R-A003 due 061396. Contact: C.E. King, 011-81-6117-45-1504 or 3974; FAX 011-81-988-93-6024/Contracting Officer: P.A. Darrah. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitaiton; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation M67400-96-R-A003 is issued as a Request for Proposal(RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. This acquisition is for Instructional Training for Banyan Vines Course. CLIN 0001-Banyan Vines Problem Solving Course, 10 Students, Banyan Vines P/N EDU-310; CLIN 0002-Banyan Vines Network Communication Course, 10 Students, Banyan Vines P/N EDU-630; CLIN 0003-Banyan Vines Supporting Network Services Course, 10 Students, Banyan Vines P/N EDU-620; CLIN 0004-Advance Banyan Vines Problem Solving course, 10 Students, Banyan Vines P/N EDU-640. The contractor will be required to provide the above trtaining courses for the Marine Corps Base, Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan. The offer shall include all cost except for items indicated as Government furnished. The Contractor shall also provide a protocol analyzer, students' handouts, students' manuals, instructors' manuals for each course and a certification certificate for each student upon completion of each course. These certificates shall be towards the completion of the Banyan Certification Program. The Contractor will be responsible for the shipping of, and any return shipment of class materials to and from Okinawa. The Contractor's instructors shall meet or exceed the following criteria: the instructors must be certified by Banyan Vines System, Inc. or by an authorized Banyan Vines Certified Education Center and possess a valid, current certification document; must read, write and speak fluent English; must possess a thorough working knowledge of the required courses and of the Banyan Vines Operating Systems. The Problem Solving Course shall include: training in protocol, MNet, and Vines assistant static analysis; training on PC environment, expansion bus, interrupts, memory and Banyan Login sequence; training on server environment and client server environment. The Network Communication Course shall include training in communication architecture which discusses protocol layers, connectionless and connection-oriented, and LAN protocols; training on Vines Network, Vines Transport and Upper Layer protocols. The Supporting Network Service Course shall include: training in Banyan Vines UNIX environment, to include Banyan enhanced UNIX access features, and UNIX Kernel management; discussion on communication concepts, Server services and StreetTalk service; training on STDA service, Files services, Print services and Intelligent Messaging Service. The Advance Problem Solving Course shall include: advance protocol, TCI/IP server training, MNet and advanced Vines assistant statistic analysis; advance server and client server environment. The Government will provide the following items for each class: 10 computers, 486/50 with 8 MB RAM, VGA monitors DOS and Windows and PC;s will be capable of running Ethernet or Token Ring; 2 servers with 32 MB RAM, 1GB hard drives, Banyan Vines VER 5.54(20), MNet, PCPrint, PCDialin, LAN server to server, WAN server-to-server, Mail, IM3 and Vines assistant; 2 Hayes V-series type Modems; whiteboard and overhead projector; provide invitational orders to allow access to Camp Foster, the Defense Commissary and the Post Exchange; and provide daily transportation to and from the billeting location to the designated class, unless the instructors decide to rent a vehicle. CLIN's 0001-0003 are required to be performed during the period of August 12, 1996 through August 30, 1996. CLIN 0004 is to be performed during the period of September 3, 1996 through September 9, 1996. All courses will be performed at the A/CS G-6, MCB Camp Smedley. D. Butler, Bldg 5715, Camp Foster, Unit 35001, Okinawa, Japan. Acceptance of completed courses will be made at this location upon completion of the assigned course date. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items (Oct 1995), applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items (Oct 1995), applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation and is the most advantageous offer to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors, listed in descending order of importance, will be used to evaluate offers: (1) Price. The evaluation of this factor shall be based on comparison to costs of any known recent procurements of the same or similar items by this or other commands; comparison of prices obtained on this solicitation; and comparison to catalog prices. (2) Technical Expertise. Offeror shall submit the educational background/level, years of teaching experience and certifications and credentials of each instructor. Each instructor shall be certified Banyan Vines instructor, have at the time of award at least 2 years of in-classroom instructional time and at least 1 year of hands-on experience on Banyan Vines Operating System. (3) Past Performance. Offeror shall submit the following information concerning similar services furnished during the the past two (2) years: Name, address, telephone number, point of contact, total dollar amount of contracts or orders from Federal, State, Local Government agencies or private companies in which the offer has performed similar services. In addition, the offerors may provide information on problems encountered while performing those contracts or orders and the offerors' corrective action used to resolved those problems. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without discussions, therefore, offerors are encouraged to submit their best offer from a cost or price standpoint. The offeror is required to submit a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items (Oct 1995) with its offer. FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items (Oct 1995) applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items is incorporated in this solicitation. The following additional clauses apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractor Sales to the Government, with Alternate I (41 USC 253g and 10 USC 2402); FAR 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity (41 USC 423); FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans (38 USC, 4212); FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of th Vietnam Era (38 USC 4212). Closing date will be Jun 13, 1996 at 1500 hours, Japan Standard Time. for additional information, contact GySgt CE King at 011-81-6117-45-1504 or FAX 011-81-988-93-6024. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. (134)

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