Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 1-7, Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19, Japan Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052 Attn: Mr. Yamada

75 -- BUSINESS OPERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM. SOL KANPO 08-194 (TDD. 02-269) DUE 030397 POC Point of Contact -- NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor, New York, NY 10178, 212/661-0810 also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite #200, Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565 WEB: NTT International Procurement Information Home Page, http://wwwipo.nttinfo.ntt.co.jp. This announcement(RFI) is to request provision of general reference materials from potential suppliers prior to a procurement announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal. This announcement does not necessarily promise that a procurement announcement will follow. No payment will be made for the information submitted. The Outline of system is as follows: (1)Name:Business Operation Support System. (2)Overview:This system is intended to support and manage business operations of advertisement sales of telephone directories by offering the following functions. *Data storing/management of materials needed for advertising proposals to customers, and customer responding information. *Establish data base of outsource information of statistics and marketing, analyze/process the information and produce materials for proposals based on such analyzed/processed information. (i)Technical information a.Information for operational processing functions b.Information for communication functions c.Other information (ii)Prices a.Market price of products b.The concept of license cost (iii)Standard time of delivery after ordering (iv)Records of sales and installation (v)Others (positive proposals which may benefit NTT's enterprises) (3)Deadline for RFI:3:00 pm, March 3, 1997 (Mail must arrive no later than the above date.) (4) Addresses to send information for RFI:Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7, Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19, Japan, Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052 Attn: Mr. Yamada or NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor New York, NY 10178, also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, suite 200 Mountain View, CA 94040, U.S.A. (5)Language:Japanese or English (6)Misc:The above public notice is the plan as of today and is subject to change. For further information or inquiries, please contact the above mentioned person. (0030)

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