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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 3,1997 PSA#1816

USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service, ASD, PCS, Room 2161 South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700

D -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT PRODUCTS SOL FSIS-18-W-97 DUE 041497 POC Contact Point, Claudia Andrews, (202) 720-9891 The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has a requirement to establish a new computing platform which includes all hardware, software, and communications necessary to provide the next generation of information systems based on client/server technology. FSIS is in the process of migrating their legacy applications to commercial off the shelf (COTS) products. These COTS products include workgroup applications that utilize Microsoft Exchange Server Software and the Microsoft BackOffice's integrated suite of networking applications such as: Windows NT Server, Systems Management Server, SQL Server, SNA Server and Mail Server. In order to adequately design a new desktop architecture, FSIS will need direct access to beta versions of forthcoming releases of Microsoft products to facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of a strategy that will provide a smooth migration to future releases. FSIS intends to award a Blanket Purchase Agreement to Microsoft Corporation, 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 800, Washington DC 20015, for technical support. FSIS intends to negotiate on a sole-source basis in accordance with 41 U.S. C. 253(c)(1). Only technical support that will provide direct access to very latest beta versions of Microsoft software shall be considered. All interested concerns must identify their interest in writing and fully document their capability to meet the Agency's requirements by forwarding a detailed response within 15 days of publication of this notice. All proposals from responsible sources will be considered by the Agency. If no affirmative written responses are received within 15 days of publication of this notice to determine that a comparable source is available, or is more advantageous to the Government, negotiations will take place with Microsoft Corporation. No solicitation document is available. (0091)

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