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70 -- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SOL RFQ EASC-97-0065 POC Lynne Phipps, Contract Specialist (757) 441-6881, Melvyn A. DesJarlais, Contracting Officer (757) 441-6647 WEB: RFQ EASC-97-0065, www.easc.noaa.gov. E-MAIL: Lynne Phipps, Lynn.B.Phipps@noaa.gov. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration intends to procure the following hardware and software for the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) NOAA Virtual Data System (NVDS) Test Environment: CLIN (1) Exabyte Mammoth Tape Drive with 20/40GB, 1 each; CLIN (2) Tape Media for item (1), 20 each; CLIN (3) Artecon Lynx Stak RAID Drive, to include: Five 9GB drives (45GB total), ULTRA SCSI-3 controller, multiple host support, 2 each; CLIN (4) SUN Ultra SPARC2 Workstation, to include: dual 300MHz processors; 512MB RAM; 17 inch color monitor; CD-ROM; internal floppy disk drive; 4.2GB internal hard drive; Solaris 2.5.1, 1 each; CLIN (5) Java Workshop by SUN Microsystems, UNIX/Solaris License, 1 each; CLIN (6) Oracle 7.3 RDBMS for SUN/Solaris, to include Oracle 7.3 Server-Enterprise Edition with Eight (8) concurrent licenses, 2 each; CLIN (7) Second Six Months Bronze-Level Support for Item (6); CLIN (8) Oracle WEB Application Server, Sun License, 2 each; CLIN (9) Bronze-Level Support for Item (8); CLIN (10) Sapphire WEB by Bluestone, Inc., UNIX/Solaris 3.0 License, 1 each; CLIN (11) Microsoft FrontPage, Windows 95 version, 1 each. Delivery is FOB Destination to the National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC 14 days after award. Responses will be evaluated for multiple awards a fixed price purchase order or orders will be awarded using Simplified Acquisition Procedures. The SIC Code assigned to this procurement is 5045. This procurement is open to large and small business concerns. It is anticipated that a written Request for Quotation will be issued on or about August 15, 1997. The due date for quotations will be 10 days following the issue date. All offers from responsible offerors will be considered by the agency. Written or faxed requests for the solicitation only. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Fax requests to (757) 441-3786. (0219)

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