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70 -- POTENTIAL SOURCES SOUGHT, ORACLE SOFTWARE ADDITIONAL BUNDLES OF USERS FOR ORACLE 7 LICENSE, MAINTENANCE, TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION POC Susan Pimble (CO) 703-648-7358 The U.S. Geological Survey plans to modify Contract No. 1434-HQ-96-CN-30329 with Oracle Corporation on a sole source basis to increase the quantities and is conducting a market search for firms that can provide additional bundles of users to the Oracle 7 license, software maintenance including new releases, updates, and patches to the specified software, telephone support in Rolla, MO; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA; and Sioux Falls, SD; and software documentation both in hard copy and on CD-ROM. The reason no competition is anticipated is that Oracle has proprietary rights to all proposed software as developer of the software and not sub-licensing any other organization to modify or maintain its proprietary product. This modification is a commercial item acquisition being conducted using the authority in FAR 13.6. Quantities will be increased as follows: line item x003 Point of Contact (+17), x005A 50-user bundle additional users to Oracle 7 (+14), x005F Discoverer 2000, 10-user bundle (+10); x007A Support for x005A (+33); x007F Support for x005F (+40); x005B Designer 2000, 10-user bundle (+6); x005C Developer 2000, 10-user bundle (+5); x007B Support for x005B (+20); x007C Support for x005C (+ 20); X005D Programmer 2000, 10-user bundle (+6); x006A Webserver (+10); x005E Parallel Server Option (+98); x007D Support for x005D (+20); x007E Support for x005E (+148); x007G Support for x006A (+28). Oracle software purchased through other contracts may be added to this contract for software maintenance. Software support for Oracle products running under the DG/UX operating system, for Oracle products operating in client mode under MS/DOS, MS/WINDOWS and SCO/UNIX operating systems, and for Oracle products operating in client mode under MS/DOS, MS/WINDOWS and SCO/UNIX operating systems is mandatory. The schedule completion date for the contract is September 30, 2001. Firms that can provide the services described in this announcement are invited to submit qualification information to support their capabilities. Information should be submitted to this office within 30 calendar days from the date of publication of this announcement to the above address. This is not an RFP. This announcement is only for the purpose of verifying available sources. Any questions should be addressed in writing to Ms. Susan Pimble at the address specified in this announcement. See Numered Note 12. (0143)

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