U.S. Geological Survey, 205B 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192

D -- SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE POC Deborah A. Walsh, Contracting Officer 703-648-7384 This is not a notice for a solicitation. This announcement is for market research purposes. The U.S. Geological Survey is requesting information from commercial sources regarding maintenance of commercially available software by Intergraph Corp. The software to be maintained are located in Reston, Virginia; Menlo Park, California; Rolla, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado. Options for additional licenses bought in the future will be included. The Contractor would be required to provide maintenance and source revision updates for the Intergraph COTS Software packages. Sources offering software maintenance must have a license agreement with Intergraph Corp., as they are the original manufacturer and have proprietary rights. The anticipated period of performance for this contract will be a base year with four option years. Responses from firms who believe they can provide the required software maintenance services should include full technical documentation and descriptive literature on the vendor in such detail to enable the Government to confirm the submitter's capabilities to maintain the software. Publicly available commercial pricing information is also reuquested in as much detail as possible. Any pricing information submitted that is not publicly available will not be utilized. Neither a draft statement of work nor specifications are available. No formal solicitation or contract will result from this synopsis for industry information. The Government will not pay for information provided in response to this synopsis. Based on information available at this time, the Government considers the required software maintenance to be a sole source and plans to enter into noncompetitive discussions with Intergraph Corporation of Reston, Virginia. The contracting officer plans to acquire the software maintenance pursuant to FAR 13.6 -- Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Technical and commercial price information responding to this synopsis must be received by close of business July 7, 1997. (0171)

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