U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, DC 20231

R -- INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND FACILITIES SERVICES (IRFS) FOR THE DEPUTY ASSITANT COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS POC Douglas R. Clift, Contracting Officer (703) 308-2878 or (703) 305-8399 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a requirement for information retrieval and facilities management services for the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Patents and other areas of PTO as applicable. These services include information retrieval, information research, and search assistance services to aid patent examiners in the patent adjudication process; library support services, facilities management operations, classification technical support services, training support services, and limited Federal Information Processing (FIP) services. The objective of these services is to provide information retrieval and facilities support services to support PTO's mission of the examination and issuance of patents. PTO anticipates this acquisition to be for a base period of one year with four additional one-year option periods and to be set-aside for Small Business under Standard Industrial Classification Code 7375. This competitive acquisition will be conducted using a new streamlined acquisition process described in a document entitled ''Department of Commerce Acquisition Process Case for Change'' which may be found on the Internet at http://www.uspto.gov.web/doc/bpr/. The intent of this new process is to provide an improved acquisition environment which will benefit both the vendor community and the Government. As part of this process, a Project Agreement will be made available on the Internet at http://www.conops.doc.gov on or about June 25, 1996. In accordance with this acquisition process, the Project Agreement will serve as the solicitation document for this requirement. Interested parties must respond to the Project Agreement in order to be considered for award of any resulting contract. Responses to questions or a printed copy of the Project Agreement may be obtained by written request to IRFS Acquisition Team, Attn: Douglas R. Clift, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, D.C. 20231. Potential offerors are requested to entertain questions via E-Mail to the attention of Douglas R. Clift at http://www.conops.doc.gov. Unless otherwise requested, answers will be disseminated via the internet and posted at http://www.conops.doc.gov. (0163)

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