Immigration & Naturalization Service, Procurement Division, 425 I Street, N.W., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536

70 -- FIELD OFFICE SUPPORT & HARDWARE MAINTENANCE (FOS/HM) REQUEST FOR COMMEMTS AND SOLICITATION. POC J.Garforth, Contracting Officer, Immigration & Naturilization Service, 425 I St., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536. This NOTICE is a combined SOURCES SOUGHT for comments and a NOTICE of an RFP. NO OTHER NOTICE WILL BE ISSUED. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) invites industry comments on the proposed approach for the acquistion of support services for computer facilities operation and hardware maintenance support for INS. The purpose of the Field Office Support and Hardware Manitenance (FOS/HM) acquistion is to provide help desk and user support services, operations and technical support services including maintenance services for INS Federal Information Processing (FIP) resources worldwide. The INS requires end-to-end support across the INS' information Technology (IT) infrastructure that includes wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs), communication equipment, mainframes, minicomputers and other mid-tier (client server) platforms, work stations and associtated peripherals. A draft solicitation comprised of Sections B,C,L, and M will be issued in August 1996 for industry comments. All comments or questions concerning the draft must be received in this office no latter than 15 calendar days after the release of this draft. The INS will not respond in writing to comments received nor will it release any comments to industry. The INS will not incur any liability for nor will it pay any cost incurred in responding to this request for comments. This draft may be requested by fax or by letter, no telephone inquires or request will be accepted. Only written or faxed request will be accepted. Direct letter inquiries to Joseph Garforth, Contracting Officer, Immigration & Naturalization Service, 425 I St. N.W., Room 2208, Washington, DC 20536. Direct fax request to Joseph Garforth (202)-514-3353. A solicitation is expected to be issued in September 1996. All proposals must be received by this office no later than 30 days after release of the RFP. Only written request for the final solicitation will be accepted either by letter or by fax, same as above. Use the same address and fax number as stated above for the request for the draft solicitation. (0208)

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