Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), Office of Information Technology, Technology Policy, Planning and Acquisitions Office, IT Contracting, 1 Columbus Circle NE, Room 3-170, Washington, DC 20544

T -- APPELLATE SLIP OPINIONS ELECTRONIC PRINTING SERVICES SOL USCA-97-R-S01 POC Kevin Sullivan, Contracting Officer, (202) 273-2015 The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is conducting a competitive procurement to acquire contractor services for proofreading, typesetting, printing, copying, and distributing the opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, MA. Offerors must be able to receive daily electronic transmissions of court opinions in WordPerfect format; proofread the opinions using a skilled proofreader and an attorney who is familiar with federal appellate decisions; typeset, print, and copy the opinions according to Government provided specifications; distribute copies of the opinions to the court and court provided mailing lists at times and in quantities specified; provide diskettes with both ASCII and WordPerfect 5.1 versions of the opinions to the court along with the court's copies of the opinions; and perform other related services. The court will render approximately 340 opinions in Fiscal Year 1998 which will amount to a total of approximately 6,800 pages. For each separate opinion, approximately 450 copies are required to satisfy the needs of the court and its subscribers. The resulting contract will be a firm fixed-price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The term of the contract will be one year with options for the Government to extend four additional one-year periods. Award will be made to a single offeror whose proposal is technically acceptable and offers the lowest overall cost to the Government. There is currently an incumbent contractor who is not prohibited from competing under this solicitation. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered. Requests for the solicitation may be made via facsimile transmission to (202) 273-2312, but must be followed up by hard copy signed letter. Requests to be included on the Bidders Mailing List should be received no later than 15 days from date of this synopsis and must reference Solicitation No. USCA-97-R-S01. Vendors who responded to the notice for this solicitation which appeared on April 3, 1997 under D-Information Technology Services, need not respond to this notice. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (0119)

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