U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants Services, RAD-30, 400 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590

D -- ACTIVE WEB SOFTWARE, SUPPORT AND CONSULTING SERVICES SOL DTFR53-97-P-00386 DUE 062097 POC Purchasing Agent, Dana L. Hicks, 202-632-3237 The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) intends to award a simplified acquisition purchase order on a sole source basis with Active Software for purchase of software, services and consulting to implement testing of the Electronic Grants Pilot software security module. Software consists of Secure Sockets Layer in the Active Web original browser API (Visual Java), Java Client API, and dbAdapters. Includes enhanced Active Web with Secure Sockets Layer. This is not a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) and a competitive solicitation is not available. (0154)

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