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J -- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE DUE 092396 POC Karen Phillips (703)648-7372 (contact), Tammy Fanning (703)648-7363 (CO) The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) intends to issue a solicitation on a non-competitive basis for a procurement with Autometric, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia for software and hardware maintenance. Based on information available at this time, the Government considers the required hardware and software maintenance to be a sole source. Performance requires the Contractor to have a high level security clearance. The software and hardware to be maintained are located in Reston, Virginia and Denver, Colorado. Options for additional systems bought in the future will be included. These additional systems may be at locations throughout the United States. The Contractor would be required to provide maintenance and source revision updates for the following configuration: HARDWARE INFORMATION: Hardware: SGI Indigo2 Extreme graphics workstation model CMNB003B, internal 2GB SCSI disk and CDROM drive, 20'' Multi-scan tilt-swivel Color Monitor, 8mm Exabyte 5GB external tape drive, Silo cabinet, with 2 SCSI II - 9GB disk drives, (Stereo Viewing and collection tool) Immersion Interface Box, Stereo viewer emitter W/2 eyewear, Softmouse, photogrammetric input device, SGI Challenge Iris L series 1 - 2 GB Hard Drive model CMNA011 SGI Power Supply model CMNA012, SGI Hard Drives model CMNAS02, Toshiba America Info. Systems CD-ROM Drive model TXM3401E1, Falcon Systems, Inc. Tape Drive, Metrum Information Storage model RSP-2150; SOFTWARE: Irix operating system, Softplotter Professional, Data Master Ver. 2.1, National Models, and Terramodel, surface modeling. Sources offering software maintenance must have a license agreement with Autometric, Inc., as they are the original manufacturer and have proprietary rights. The anticipated period of performance for this contract will be a base year with four option years. Firms who believe they can provide the required software and/or hardware maintenance services are invited to submit an affirmative response within 45 days of the publication date of this notice in accordance with note number 22. Interested parties may respond with information on capabilities for both hardware and software maintenance or they may respond with capabilities for only the hardware or the software. Responses should include full technical information on the vendor in such detail to enable the Government to confirm the submitter~s capabilities to maintain the hardware and/or software. All such responses will be evaluated in order to determine whether that firm has full knowledge of the USGS's requirement for maintenance of existing hardware and software in accordance with the above mandatory requirements. An affirmative response shall include literature, brochures, and other such information corresponding to the required items which demonstrates the capabilities of the offeror's services. This notice is for informational purposes only. REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) IS NOT AVAILABLE. This notice may represent the Government's only official notice of this procurement. See numbered Note 22. (0227)

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