NETWORKING SESSION the General Services Administration (GSA) is hosting a networking session for the purpose of enhancing subcontracting opportunities for small, small disadvantaged and women-owned small business under its Virtual Data Center Services Contract. This contract will meet the needs of agencies that elect to outsource data processing requirements to commercial concerns. competing prime contrators include: Computer Science Corporation, SunGard Computer Services, Inc. and Unisys Corporation. The estimated dollar value of the procurement is $6 billion over its 10 year life. The GSA networking sessions will allow the proposed competing prime contractors and several groups of small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses the opportunity to come together and exchange business interest with the hope of estabishing a contracting realtionship under the Virtual Data Center Services Contract. Subcontracts currently in place under the existing Virtual Data Center Services Contract include: Hardware/software,Technical Support and Supporting Supplies and Services, Maintenance Service, Office Supplies and Equipment. this is the only networking session that is to be held for this acquisition, unless it is later determined that additional sessions are necessary. The sessions will include the three prime contractors and 40 to 80 small, small disadvantaged, and women-owned small businesses. Although some of the prime contractors had already established teamming arrangements with other companies, ther still exist contracting opportunities for small, small-disadvantaged, and women-owned small businesses. the networking session is scheduled for 9:00am to 12:00pm, June 5, 1997 at: General Services Administration Training Center, 490 L'Enfant East Promenade, SW, Room 3208, Washington, DC. If hotel accomodations are necessary for this event, please contact the Loew L'Enfant Plaza Hotel at (202) 484-1000. If you wish to participate in the networking sessions, contact Oscar Watson at (202) 501-2590 or FAX to (202) 208-5938, no late than c.o.b. May 28, 1997. There is no cost for participation in this event; however, only the first 125 confirmations can be accomodated.

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