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D -- US CONNECT CITRIX SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE POC Mr. Lee J. Spicher, Purchasing Agent, (410) 786-8919. Pending the availability of funds, the Health Care Financing Administration intends to procure from US Connect, on a sole source basis, maintenance services on the following software: 3 Citrix WinFrame V1.6 units consisting of 60 licences each, located at Central Office, Baltimore, MD, 6 WinFrame V1.6 units consisting of 15 licences each, located at the agency headquartes in Baltimore, MD (quantity 3), the agency office in Washington, DC (quantity 2), and the Regional Office in Atlanta, GA (quantity 1), 9 Citrix WinView units consisting of 15 licences each, located one per location in HCFA Regional Offices in Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Dallas, TX, Denver, CA, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, and Kansas City, MO. Telephone coverage by Citrix certified WinFrame/WinView Technicians is required twenty four hour per day. A telehpone response must be made within 4 hours of a trouble call by HCFA. When required by HCFA, on-site response by a certified Citrix WinFrame Technician is required within 4 hours to Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC. Maintenance services are to cover all software upgrades for a period of one year starting on 09/01/96. Hardware maintenance is not required. For planning purposes, the software is running on a mix of platforms consisting primarily of Dell PowerEdge servers (single- and multiple-CPU) and Hewlett-Packard LM100/5 single-CPU servers. If no responses are received within 15 calendar days from the published date of this notice, a purchase order shall be awarded to US Connect. An RFQ package is not available. (0208)

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