U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), Attn: MA/CBP, 320 21st Street, Room 5486, NW, Washington, DC 20451

D -- ADP AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES - POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT POC ACDA Point of Contact (POC): Fannin (202) 647-8081 or Kristine Hunt (202) 647-5165/Fax (202) 647-8333; Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) POC: Procurement Officer (31-70) 376-1774/Fax (31-70) 364-1963. U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) has been notified that the Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) for the Organization for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a new international organization created by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), is seeking to identify companies qualified to develop an information system for confidential data declarations. The PTS has requested that each Member State identify potential companies interested in supply/developing this system. Interested companies must have the following areas of expertise: system design and development in a secured trusted environment; commercial and governmental data management in a database management system such as Sybase, Ingress, and Oracle; and integrated information systems with emphasis upon C/S, LANs, MS, NT, UNIX based systems. Interested companies will be required to complete a questionnaire and return it to the PTS in The Hague, The Netherlands. Requests for the questionnaire can be made by calling either POC. Upon receipt of the questionnaires, the PTS will compile a tender list. The deadline for responses from interested companies is 15 August 1996. (220)

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