EPA, ADP Placement Section (3803F), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

70 -- BGS SYSTEMS BEST/1-DATA CENTER SOL BEST/1-DATACENTER SW DUE 051997 POC Jesse Kingsberry, 202-260-6080 The EPA intends to place an contract with BGS Systems, Inc., for continuing maintenance and software upgrades as available for its BEST/1-DATACENTER software suite. The anticipated contract will contain a base period and four options totaling 60 months. This software allows detailed modeling of multiple systems, multiple images, and multiple centers in an integrated modeling environment. It eliminates the need for the development of independent, stand-alone models under the currently installed BEST/1-MVS environment, and the tedious and time-consuming manual workload balancing and impact analysis. EPA believes no other source is capable of maintaining and providing technical version updates and support for this product suite other than the stated source, due to the proprietary and trade-sensitive nature of the software. Interested vendors offering identical or equivalent software maintenance and technical support must identify their interest and fully document their capability to meet the agency's requirement by forwarding a detailed response within 15 calendar days of this notice. All request must be in writing and include company name, point of contact, telephone number, and sufficient technical documentation for the Government to determine the ability to meet the requirement. Responses shall be submitted to: Environmental Protection Agency, Attention: Jesse Kingsberry (3803F), 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460. Vendors' response shall be in writing and reference BEST/1-DATACENTER software. Telephone request will not be honored. See Number Note 22. (0121)

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