International Joint Commission, United States Section, 1250 23rd Streeet, N.W., Suite 100, Washington, DC 20440

D -- DATA PROCESSING AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT SOL 17619601 DUE 071196 POC Frank Bevacqua or Joel Fisher, phone 202-736-9000, fax 202-736-9015. Management of local area network for International Joint Commission's Washington, DC office. This LAN is one of the Commission's three systems, the other two being in Ottawa and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Although only the Washington system is the subject of this solicitation, the upgrading, management, and future development of the LAN in Washington depends on joint planning strategies and activities involving the other two LAN systems. The tasks required for the management of the Washington LAN include standard management activities involving electronic mail and communications, troubleshooting of equipment and problems with word processing and other software systems, virus checks, periodic system configuration changes and equipment upgrads, and limited training of Commission staff in the use and performance of new software and equipment configurations. The Commission intends to negotiate a fixed price contract for a two year period beginning approximately September 27, 1996. An option for a third year will also be included in the solicitation. Consistent with the present operations of the Commission's management of its LAN systems, the solicitation is a small business set-aside, SIC code 7379 (gross receipts limitation of $18 million per year averaged over the three most recent years of receipts availability). See numbered Note 1. The Commission has scheduled an open house at its facilities at 1250 23rd Street, N.W., Suite 100, Washington, DC on June 21, 1996 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Interested parties should indicate their intentions regarding attendance at this time. The meeting which precedes a tour of the facility will introduce the Commission and its operations briefly and will take questions on the RFP for later response. It is not likely that persons who can answer technical questions will be present at the time of the tour, and therefore all questions will be answered to the extent possible in writing to all attendees within several days of the tour. (0159)

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