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70 -- PORTABLE AND DESKTOP PERSONAL COMPUTERS, MAINTENANCE DATA TERMINALS (MDTS) DUE 053096 POC Sarah F. Scott, Contracting Officer Market Survey -- The FAA has a requirement for portable and desktop personal computers, Maintenance Data Terminals (MDTs), for use by its field technicians to access maintenance information. The MDTs should be available in configurations using Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation. Both the portable and desktop MDTs shall equal or exceed Pentium-class. In addition, the portable MDTs shall have clock speed of not less than 90 Mhz, with 32 Mb of system memory and 1.2 Gb fixed disks and the desktop MDTs shall have clock speed of not less than 150 Mhz, with 32Mb of system memory and 1.6Gb fixed disks. Microsoft Office Professional shall be provided with each MDT. A copy of the specification for the MDTs is available on the Internet and a hard copy will be available upon request. The total number of units the government anticipated on buying, leasing, or leasing with option to purchase is 7,000 over a three year period. The vendor will be required to provide a 3 year warranty, technology upgrades for both hardware and software components and a toll free telephone technical assistance help desk. In addition, the vendor will be required to deliver a maximum of 500 units per month across the conus U.S. to individual technicians. The FAA is soliciting industry comments on the requirements outlined in the specification and requesting quotes based on (1) straight purchase, (2) guaranteed lease period of 36 months, (3) guaranteed lease with option to purchase the equipment. Comments and questions will be accepted until May 30 1996. In addition, vendor(s) who currently can meet the specification and is interested in responding to request for offer (RFO) at a later date, please provide to the FAA by May 30, 1996, a copy of its specification sheet, quotes and a schedule for delivering 500 units per month. An Operational Capability Demonstration may be required. The FAA does not intend to pay for the cost of submitting a response to the above. An overview and the SIR will be available via the internet at''http://www.faa.gov./faaacq.htm''. Please submit all inquires, questions and data to Sarah F. Scott, Contracting Officer, via Internet E-Mail, (Sarah Scott@ mail.hq.faa.gov), phone 202-358-5203 or by fax 202-358-4987. (0144)

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