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70 -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT POC Gabrielle James, Contract Specialist (703) 607-6904 or Mark Bogart, Contracting Officer (703) 607-6920 The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) intends to solicit, negotiate and award a DOD-wide acquisition resulting in several IDIQ Task Order/Delivery Order contracts. This announcement is for purposes of soliciting comments to DISA's draft Statement of Work (SOW). It is intended that multiple awards and split awards will result for both purchase and/or lease of computer hardware, as well as maintenance of computer hardware to be available on a global basis. Its purpose is to support one of DISA's primary missions: to develop and/or integrate DODs existing computer systems into a single, seamless Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) in support of the war fighter in an Open Systems, or Common Operating Environment (COE). Initial focus will be on compliant platforms branded against Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and must operate to the following releases: Microsoft Windows NT; IBM AIX 4.1.4; Hewlett Packard (HP/UX) 9.0.7, 10.1; Sun Solaris 2.4, 2.5.1; Digital DEC Alpha; Silicon Graphics. This procurement is a pioneer effort incorporating electronic contracting methods and includes a structure that will evolve through an interactive, industry and customer-driven process, both prior to and after award. As such, the acquisition strategy is intended to include partial small business set-asides as well as teaming opportunities for Small, Small Women Owned, and other Small Disadvantaged Businesses, while providing easy-to-use web-based technologies to get the best value commercial products and services to those customers who need them in the absolute shortest time frame possible. In keeping with acquisition streamlining, written documents are not anticipated and will be furnished on an extreme exception basis only. As such, all further information relevant to this acquisition, including the proposed schedule, the RFP, industry comments or questions, ordering guides, bidders mailing lists, and/or award and administration processes will be conducted electronically and/or be available for download at DISAs Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization -- National Capital Region (DITCO-NCR) DIIEM website: http://www.disa.mil/line/DIIEM.html. To accommodate the aggressive award schedule we plan to set up a location under our website as an interactive Bidders Mailing List to facilitate Small and SDB teaming and contracting opportunities. Anticipated release of the Statement of Work under RFP DCA100-97-R-0031 for industry comments will be on or about 7 March 1997 with final RFP projected in the 3rd Qtr FY97 and projected awards in the 4th Qtr FY97. At that time a separate CBD announcement will be published. No written document will be mailed as a result of this notice and no telephone requests will be accepted. Inquiries may be made via fax to the Contracting Officer, Mark Bogart at (703) 607-4340 or via e-mail citing the above RFP or "DIIEM- Questions or Comments", to the following office mailbox: ditco-ncr@disa.ncr.mil. (0066)

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