Small Business Administration, 409 3rd Street SW, Washington, DC 20416

X -- OPERATION OF DATA PROCESSING CENTER SOL 6.5462.0018 DUE 101196. POC Contract Specialist, William Dorwart, 202-205-7088. The Small Business Administration (SBA) intends to negotiate a sole source procurement with Electronic Data Systems Corporation, (EDS), 13600 EDS Drive, Herndon, VA 22071, for continued operation of the SBA Data Processing Center. The services will cover the continued operation, maintenance and support of the SBA Data Processing Service and the SBA Data Communications System. Due to the agencies migration to a client server environment (now being implemented), this short term continuation of services is necessary to avoid any negative impart during this conversion process. The contract will result in a service contract of 18 months, effective 3/10/97, on a Unisys mainframe computer system. The mainframe will be phased out during this 18 mth period. There will be no funds available for a vendor to convert current systems applications to a new environment, and the amount of services provided in this contract will diminish monthly as all applications are converted from the mainframe to a client/server environment. For these reasons, the SBA requires that the mainframe functions of the agency temporarily be carried out by EDS. This synopsis is published under the mandate of FAR 6.302.1(d) (2), and does not signify the pending issuance of any Request for Proposals. No mailing list will be prepared and no solicitation documents will be available for release. Responses will have to provide a description of supplies and services to be provided, how they would be provided, and how the Government would receive the overall best value. If no affirmative responses are received within 15 days of publication of this notice, negotiations for this requirement will be initiated with EDS. (263)

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