Department of the Air Force, SMALC/PKOCC, 3237 Peacekeeper Way, Suite 17, McClellan AFB CA 95652-1060

70 -- RENEWAL OF SOFTWARE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF THE BASE CORPORATE NETWORK AND CLUSTER AT MCCLELLAN AFB CA SOL F04699-97-R0021 DUE 012997 POC Buyer, Elizabeth Gamboa/PKOCC/(916) 643-4238, Contracting Officer, Nellie M. Powell, (916) 643-3952. The closing date is an approximate date. This is a justified sole source requirement to Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), 2720 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 310, Sacto, CA 95833, for renewal of on-site, technical software support services at McClellan AFB CA, for All-In-1 software and layered products; Pathworks networking; VAX/VMS operating system and the Local Area VAX Cluster; Windows NT operating system and all associated products including, but not limited to, Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Exchange; Ethernet and FDDI networks including, but not limited to, network management tasks, protocol support, troubleshooting and network server management. The base network and computer cluster incorporate state of the art configurations which are complex, extremely large, and unique to McClellan AFB CA. These configurations and various elements of the Network software, Pathworks software, and All-In-1 software have been custom modified by DEC, on site. Proprietary software systems and applications management support is also required for the basewide office information and LAN server system hosted on a five node VAX cluster. Offeror's believing they can provide the above requirement shall have expertise in IEEE 802.3 ethernet management, IEEE 802.7 FDDI management, numerous ethernet supported network protocols (CP/IP/DECNet, LAT, LAD and LAST) and network management systems (NMCC and SNMP). In addition to on-site experts, the Government requires access to the product development engineer level of expertise and to the proprietary microcode and software for the DEC VAX cluster systems/software, and the Governments Pathworks personal computer network operating system. The Government does not possess technical data. Contractor shall service. The principal period of maintenance (PPM) is an eight hour period, 6:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., with one hour for lunch, Monday-Friday, excluding legal Federal holidays. The contractor may be required to work up to 20% of their hours, each month, outside to provide off-hour support tasks. Software installation may be required. FOB Destination required. Period of Performance: 97 APR 01 through 97 SEP 30, six months. This is an ``all or none'' requirement. Descriptions, quantities, locations are based on the best available data at the time. Actual solicitation requirements may differ. An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his/her concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions and voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact Allen Taylor at (916) 643-5209, with serious concerns only. Routine communications concerning this acquisition should be directed to the buyer listed elsewhere in this synopsis. All responsible sources may submit a proposal/quotation which shall be considered by the agency. When requesting a solicitation, provide information as to whether your organization (together with its affiliates) is a large or small business and whether it is a small disadvantaged business. All interested parties are urged to provide their CAGE Code and Dunn and Bradstreet Number (DUNS) with their written requests. Written responses only, verbal requests will not be honored. FAX number is (916) 643-4157. (0002)

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