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H -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SOL OPM-RFP-97-00016KLM DUE 022197 POC Ken McMahill, Contract Specialist, 202-606-2494 WEB: OPM Procurement Home Page, http://www.opm.gov/procure. E-MAIL: Negotiator, KLMcMahi@OPM.GOV. OPM seeks to acquire IT management and technical support consisting of programming and testing for new and existing mainframe and microcomputer applications; on-going LAN and WAN support; data communications, including network design, engineering, and operations; Internet and Intranet support; IT studies; requirements and alternatives analyses; risk assessment and disaster recovery planning; systems analysis and design; data base management design, development, implementation, and support; and, documentation development associated with any of the above, including upgrading of existing documentation to conform to specified standards. The information technology environment is centered on IBM 3090-200E, 9672-R53, 4381-92E, and Hitachi HTS EX80 mainframe systems as well as microcomputers from a variety of manufacturers functioning both as stand-alone systems and in local and wide area networks. This infrastructure supports administrative and program support applications such as accounting, budget, payroll,personnel, workforce information, investigations activity, Federal employee retirement and insurance, scheduling and tracking, and office automation. The automation of many mainframe and microcomputer applications require IT management and technical support, microcomputer technical support, and systems design and software development from contracted sources. OPM intends to award two (2) indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) task ordering contracts, one of which is reserved for small business. The other contract will be set aside for competition among small disadvantaged businesses qualified under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) program. If no Section 8(a) firms are determined to be acceptable, then another contract will be awarded to a small business. An individual task will be initiated through the issuance of a task order after OPM has provided both contractors a fair opportunity to be considered for the task order award. The timing and size of these task orders cannot be predicted,and there is no assurance of a steady stream of work. The services require a diversity of skills suitable to the OPM system environment. The designated base work site will be specified in each task order. This base work site may be any of the following locations: contractor's facility; any OPM facility in the Washington, DC. metropolitan area; Macon Data Processing Center, Macon, GA; Federal Investigations Processing Center, Boyers, PA; and, Retirement Operations Center, Boyers, PA. The initial term of the contract shall be one year from the effective date of award with four (4) 12-month option periods. Requests for the solicitation must be in writing and may be faxed to 202-606-1464. The SIC code for this solicitation is 7371 and the size standard is $18 million average annual sales. It is anticipated that Solicitation OPM-RFP-00016KLM will be released no sooner than 15 days after publication of this notice. Proposals will be due on or about 45 days after mailing of the Solicitation. (0031)

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