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70 -- CD-ROM AND CA REALIA II POC Bill Boyd, Contracting Officer, 202-720-8946. The Department of Agriculture Office, National Finance Center (NFC), is seeking information on high volume Compact Disc - Read Only Memory (CD-ROM) production equipment and related software. Our current operating environment is on IBM's system ES 9000 series computer hardware, operating under MVS. USDA encourages any organization specializing in the area of high-volume CD-ROM production equipment and software to submit descriptive literature demonstrating its high volume CD-ROM production technology, capabilities and pricing. The Government will not pay for the information submitted. No solicitation document exists. This is not a Request For Proposals. Any Requests received for a copy of an RFP will not be acknowledged. The Government will use the information obtained from this effort to understand the capabilities of the marketplace and may use the information in determining its future requirements. All information is to be forwarded to the National Finance Center 13800 Old Gentilly Road, Bldg. 350 Attn: CRMB-BDell, New Orleans, LA 70160 The United States Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center (NFC) at New Orleans intends to contract with the only known source(Computer Associates Inc.(CA)) for CA- Realia II Workbench for CICS and Batch. NFC believes this is the only mainframe based software product which will meet its requirements as follows: (1) works cooperatively with Computer Associates' PC based CA-Realia II Workbench which NFC uses as a GUI front-end for analysis, animation and debugging of mainframe CICS COBOL programs supporting the year 2000 conversion of NFC applications, (3) can be integrated with CA90s Distributed Processing Services, a client/server process enabling the capabilities in the PC based CA-Realia II Workbench environment, (4) can detect and prevent abends on the mainframe before they occur, (5) permits NFC programmers to interrupt program execution at any time to observe and modify the values of data items, and (6) the COBOL analysis features of CA-Realia II Workbench helps NFC programmers understand program structure and logic, trace program paths and display data item definitions and references. Technical Support includes software modifications and expert technical assistance 24 hrs/day, 365 days/year. USDA encourages potential offerors that can provide software and full-time technical support for software which has similar capabilities to submit documentation which demonstrates all of these capabilities and pricing information for the products/services. No solicitation document exists. Any requests for copies of an RFP will not be acknowledged. Information must be submitted no later than July 25, 1996. Submit two (2) copies of documentation to Ms. Shirley Fortune, USDA Office of Operations, Rm 1547-So. Bldg. 14th & Independence Ave. SW. Washington DC 20250. (0185)

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