Internal Revenue Service, A/C PROCUREMENT M:P 7th FLOOR, 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD 20745, Washington, D.C. 20224

D -- SERVICEWIDE EXPANSION OF MESSAGING INTEROPERABILITY (SEMI) SOL 0-7-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-A13 DUE 031497 POC Nathan Sternberg, 202-927-7469, 202-283-1478/1487 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking sources who can provide commercial-off-the-shelf products for any of the following four systems; 1) A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) backbone electronic messaging transport system with a reliable message delivery and audit trail capabilities; 2) a backbone reliable Electronic Message Handling System with clients and servers; 3) a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) System and 4) an X.500 conformant Directory Services System. The IRS will provide all interested vendors, upon request, with a copy of the requested specification to use in determining whether your product meets our requirement. The IRS will base its initial evaluation on the following criteria: 1) Conformance to specifications; 2) Level of support required; 3) Platforms supported; 4) Performance figures submitted; 5) Realizability definitions and 6) Ease of installation. All interested vendors must submit the following information for each system they are responding to within 60 days of this notice: 1) Descriptive technical literature on the products, including information on the products supported platforms and operating systems and technical architecture; 2) Statement of technical conformance to the specifications; 3) Statement of products commercial availability plus current catalogs; 4) vendors amenability to loaning the offered products to the IRS, at no cost, for testing, and 4) Any other pertinent documentation that will assist the IRS. Vendors will be notified in writing, within 30 days after completion of the evaluations/testing of the results. It is the IRS's intention to maintain a current bidder's list for these products that will be updated either quarterly or semi-annually. Selection for testing will neither provide vendors with an advantage nor preclude them from bidding on related future procurements. At this time, there is neither a solicitation package available nor is one anticipated in the near future. (0014)

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