DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, Internal Revenue Service, (M:P:C:T), 6009 Oxon Hill Road, Suite 700, Oxon Hill, MD 20745, attn: Keith Fairbrother

70 -- ON-CALL REMEDIAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES SOL 0-7-10-R0-R3-A70 DUE 060997 POC Contract Specialist, Keith R. Fairbrother, 202-283-1102 The IRS intends to negotiate an extension of IT hardware maintenance portion of the Integrated Collection System (ICS) contract TIRNO-91-D-00038 with Lockheed Martin Federal Systems (LMFS). This extension will serve as an interim action pending the award of three competitive long-term maintenance contracts. The IT hardware is located at the nine IRS service centers, the two IRS computing centers, the IRS ICS project office located in New Carrollton MD., and seventeen IRS districts nationwide. The IRS is in the process of negotiating three follow-on competitive maintenance contracts under solicitation numbers TIRNO-97-R-00012, TIRNO-97-R-00022., and TBD. This interim contract extension is being negotiated on a contingency basis and may not be awarded if some or all three follow-on contracts are awarded on schedule. The extension shall cover a base period of one month, with eleven optional one month periods, for a total contract life not to exceed twelve months. The contract requirements are as follows. Hardware maintenance shall consist of on-call remedial services in a 24 hour per day, seven day a week at each site. Hardware to be supported includes IBM ES9121-440 and ES9121-480 processors, peripheral devices, such as DASD and tape drives, IBM server, desktops, laptops, and printers. In total, there are currently 10,500 (approx) equipment items. The contract extension shall allow for adding, changing, and removing hardware. Interested vendors may submit written responses that includes technical data sufficient to assess capabilities to meet the requirement. Oral communication and facsimiles are not acceptable and will not be considered. No order will be made on the basis of any responses to this notice since synopsis is not considered a solicitation document. If no responses are received within 30 days after publication of this notice which clearly demonstrate the ability to meet this requirement the IRS will negotiate the extension with LMFS. See Note 22. (0011) (0129)

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