Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Midstates Procurement Operations Branch, 4050 Alpha Road, Dallas, Texas 75244

70 -- PENTIUM 100 MICROCOMPUTERS SOL IRS-96-MS-049 DUE 090496 POC Contact Linda Green, Contracting Officer, (214)308-1999. The Internal Revenue Service intends to issue Request for Quotations (RFQ) IRS-96-MS-049 for 60 Pentium 100 microcomputers. This RFQ is for purchase of commercial items utilizing FAR Part 12 policies and procedures. The SIC is 3571. The applicable size standards are: manufacturers -- 1,000 employees, non-manufacturers -- 500 employees. The RFQ will be issued on or about August 13, 1996. Copies of the RFQ will be provided to the first 20 interested businesses faxing a request to (214) 308-1928, attention Linda Green. Requests for the RFQ must include company name, complete address, contact person and extension number, and fax number. Incomplete requests will not be honored. Evaluation of offers will be based on price and quality of components. Award will be made to the contractor whose offer conforms to the RFQ requirements and is determined to be the most advantageous to the Government, price and technical quality considered. The following system specifications are required to meet the minimum needs of the Government: Pentium 100 Microcomputers - 1) Mother Board with Trident chip set and on-board PS2 port, 16550 I/O output, 256k pipeline cache upgradable to 512k, 72 pin memory configuration upgradable to 128 MB RAM, 4/PCI and 4/ISA slots, bios programmed for the years 2000+, 2) Intel or AMD 100MHz pentium processor chip, 3) mini tower case with minimum 230 watt power supply, 4) one 16 MB 72-pin RAM chip, 60ns, 5) 1 GB high speed, mode 4 IDE hard drive ( prefer Maxtor, Western Digital, or Fujitsu), 6) 1.44 MB floppy drive, 7) 104 Windows 95 keyboard, 8) 2 MB PCI MPEG video card with 64-bit DRAM to support 1280 x 1024, 256K color, 9) PS2 mouse (prefer Microsoft, Logitech, or Mitsumi), 10) 17'' .28 Non-interlaced color VGA monitor with low radiation and 100MHz refresh rate, 11) I/O controller on mother board with 2 high speed com ports, 1 lpt port, and floppy/IDE controller, 12) Windows NT Workstation 3.51 operating system (license only) loaded and configured, 13) one year seller's warranty on all parts and labor. In addition to the above, 6X CDROM drives (prefer Sony or Toshiba), 16-bit sound cards compatible with Windows NT, Windows 95, and OS2 Warp, and amplified 15 watt shielded speakers with AC adapter are required in 13 of the 60 systems. All quotes must be FOB destination: 18 each -- Austin, TX, 78741, 11 each --Dallas, TX, 75242, 12 each -- Overland Park, KS, 66211, 11 each -- St. Louis, MO, 63103, 4 each -- St. Paul, MN, 55101, 4 each -- Chicago, IL, 60606. Delivery is required within 30 days of award. (0208)

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