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66 -- EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO DIAL TONE EQUIPMENT SOL 53SBNB760127 DUE 052097 POC Keith Kennedy, 301.975.6325, Sandra Febach 301.975.6326. WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage, http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to acquire from Advanced Video Access, Morristown, NJ, a six-month lease of video dial tone equipment for an experiment in remote distribution of digital video information, with the option to renew the lease for an additional six months. The experiment requires the NIST to use equipment and software identical to the proprietary video dial tone equipment already installed at Bellcore Laboratory. The equipment consists of the following items: Item 01 -- One each of video dial tone equipment with the Sun SPARCStation 5, IWH equipped frame AVA IWH-155, IAP equipped frame AVA IAPADSL-16, RAID Master Storage Concepts C-71, two MVME167032A Common Processors, two SCSI hard disks DWR-10LS, two TAXI ATM interfaces AVA TAXI155 at 100 mps rate, two OS-9 MVME167 licenses; Item 02 -- Two each of line equipment with ADSL line card AVA ADSL-VLCT1, OS-9 embedded node, ADSL remote unit AVA ADSL-RTI; Item 03 -- Two each of Apple Digital Set-Top STB-3. All above items must work as an integrated system and use a Bellcore proprietary solution for an interactive video dial tone system and be available for immediate delivery upon award of contract. This notice is not a request for competitive quotations. The NIST intends to solicit one source under authority of FAR 13.106-2(a)(5), which authorizes contracting without providing for full and open competition when only one source is reasonably available. However, interested parties may identify to the contracting officer their written interest and capability to satisfy the Government requirement within 15 days after the date of this synopsis. The capability statement must provide adequate information on supplying this video dial tone equipment and proof that the equipment interoperates with that already installed at Bellcore. The NIST must receive all of the above to determine whether to open this requirement for competition. A determination not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses received to this notice lies within the sole discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. (0122)

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