Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, Box 6, Washington, DC 20231

70 -- MASPAR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SOL TBD DUE 070797 POC Henrietta Brox, Contracting Officer, 703-305-8016 WEB: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, http://www.uspto.gov. E-MAIL: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, henrietta.brox@uspto.gov. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is currently conducting market research into the next generation of Automated Biotechnology Sequence Search (ABSS) systems and evaluating products identified through a previous CBD notice. The PTO now uses MasPar/MPSRCH systems to conduct the majority of prior art molecular sequence searching; however, it is anticipated that an increasing workload will exceed existing system capacity before the next generation can be fully evaluated, acquired and implemented. Therefore, in the interim, the PTO will require additional MasPar capacity. The objective of this acquisition is to provide an interim solution in expanding the PTO's existing capacity for a comprehensive and rapid sequence search capability to examine biotechnology patent applications containing sequence information, with advanced software features permitting PTO examiners and research staff to construct highly specialized search queries corresponding to rapidly evolving advances in biotechnology inventions and associated patent claims, and quickly obtain search results to support timely examination efforts. The additional MasPar hardware and software to be acquired by PTO is described as follows: MP-2216H, consisting of a MP-2 Massively Parallel Computer w/16,384 Processors and 1GB RAM w/DEC Alpha front end, Model 300, 32MB Parallel SCSI Interface for SCSI Disk Array, 32GB SCSI Raid Disk Array and MPSRCH sequence searching software. The hardware and software being acquired is an integrated system that is commercially available, and available for delivery and production use within 30 days of contract award. The PTO is seeking sources of, and would prefer to acquire, used or surplus MasPar systems as described above. If no sources are found, the PTO intends to award a sole source contract to Neovista Software, Inc., 10710 North Tantau Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014, for the purchase of the necessary MasPar/MPSRCH system. (0170)

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