USDA, Rural Development, Procurement Management Division, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-0741

D -- ON-SITE USER SUPPORT SERVICES POC Contact, Patti Swann, contract specialist (202) 245-5896 8(a) Set-Aside. On-Site User Support Services. USDA intends to procure, for base plus 2 option years for USDA National Office (four (4) satellite locations - School St., Reporters Building, Park Center, and Rosslyn, VA) and St. Louis Finance Center (three (3) locations - 1520 and 2350 Market St. and 4300 Goodfellow). The support services include providing LAN and system administration, hardware/software troubleshooting (including PBX troubleshooting), installations, user training (to including maintenance and set-up of televideo equipment), migrations to new platforms, relocating equipment, recabling 3B2 installations. The automation environments include, but are not limited to, HP, Macintosh, Sun, and other IBM compatible desktop computers, laptops, facsimile machines, Xerox, Genicom, HP Lasers, and other printers; Compressed Video Conferencing Systems; UNIX, HP UNIX, DOS/Windows, OS/2 Warp and Windows 95 OS, Software including Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Novell LAN, TCP/IP LAN, Banyan Vines LAN. Solicitation #PMD-97-00-001 will be issued o/a October 30, 1996. (0270)

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