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70 -- NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT FOR A REMOTE ACCESS COMMUNICATION AND IMAGING RETREIVAL SOLUTION SOL MDA230-97-Q-0002 DUE 050997 POC Frank T. Troha, Contract Specialist (216) 522-6600 SOL MDA230-97-Q-0002 POC Frank T. Troha, Contract Specialist, (216) 522-6600. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service Cleveland Contracting Support Office (DFAS-CL/CSO) intends to award a sole source procurement for the acquisition of a software/hardware solution capable of the following: Providing a method using SPX Protocol to provide communications between a Wang VS 12000 and Enterprise LAN (ELAN) attached PC's. The communications must pass through a Novell LAN that is using Novell release 3 and Novell release 4 on LAN segments that are either Ethernet or Token Ring. The communications must pass through LAN Routers, Concentrators, LAN Gateways and other LAN devices and various LAN wire types without requiring modification to any LAN components. The communications with the PC will be though installed 10BaseT Ethernet NIC cards or Token Ring NIC cards and will not require additional hardware installed on the PC. The solution must work on 486 33Mhz PC's with 8 meg of RAM. The solution will notrequire more than a 486 33Mhz PC with 8 Meg of RAM for a LAN interface between the WANG VS 12000 and the LAN. There are no upper boundaries on the PC architecture that the solution will operate on, i.e. the solution may be used on 486/33's and above. This interface PC must communicate with the LAN through a standard Ethernet or Token Ring NIC as described for the LAN attached PC's. The software must provide the ability for the LAN attached PC's to logon to the WANG VS 12000 and perform all the functions available to a PC locally attached to the Wang VS 12000. In addition the software must provide the ability to redirect print output from the WANG VS 12000 to a LAN attached printer through commands entered at the LAN attached PC. The solution must provide hardware and software to allow one interface PC the ability to have a minimum of 50 concurrent users on LAN attached PC's and software to allow additional interface PC's the ability to have a minimum of 20 concurrent users each on LAN attached PC's. Using the communications software and network protocol described above the solution must provide software to provide image access, display, and print capabilities to images stored in multi-page TIFF and WIFF format on the Wang VS 12000 on optical and magnetic disks controlled through the Wang WIIS software. The software solution will not require modification of application programs on the Wang VS 12000 written to access images using WIIS either on optical or magnetic storage. The software will provide access to the images from the LAN attached PC's through a separate imaging interface PC that will function to reduce interface PC traffic and improve access to images for the LAN attached PC's. The software will provide a separate Windows 3.1 standard interface for images displayed on LAN attached PC's, support Cornerstone ImageAccel and Xionics image controller drivers and software, provide all the features and functions Wang supplies with the VSIMAGE product, provide image manipulation that include fit-to-page, zoom by percentage, rotate right and left, scale to gray and print. One year of technical support from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT will be provided for all hardware/software components. An additional two years of support, option year one and option year two may be exercised at the discretion of the Government. The solution will have demonstrated the ability to support 300 concurrent users. The product will provide a migration path to an OPEN environment where images currently stored on the Wang VS 12000 will be accessible in an Open UNIX environment using the current optical hardware and without requiring conversion of 12 inch 6.4 gigabyte capacity optical disks, media type ATG CYNET part number GM 6401, to a different format. Any product/solution must be approved by the DFAS-CL/FSA to confirm it conforms to DFAS standards for LAN and client PC's. The products/solution is Year 2000 compliant as defined in FAR Part 39.002. All responsible sources may submit a quotation, which if timely received, shall be considered bythe agency. Interested vendors who can furnish the required software/hardware and support are invited to submit a substantial statement clearly demonstrating that the capability of the product offered meets the referenced requirements. Responses to this announcement must clearly state, and be substantiated by the submission of technical literature and other applicable descriptive literature upon request, the ability to provide the required software and support. If any products and/or support are covered by a GSA Schedule contract, a copy of the contract, and/or the GSA Schedule number should be provided. The Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition is FAR 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source or Only A Limited Number of Responsible Sources. The proposed contract action is for supplies for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all quotations received within fourteen (14) days after date of publication of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Quotations received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Responses referencing Solicitation Number MDA230-97-Q-0002 must be priced FOB Destination Cleveland, OH 44199 and must include support and maintenance limitations and/or restrictions, support and maintenance pricing for two option years, and delivery date. Responses may be faxed No Later Than 3:00 PM Eastern May 9, 1997 to (216) 522-6352, DFAS-CL/CSO, Contracting Support Office, ATTN: Frank T. Troha, Contract Specialist.

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