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70 -- ADP SOFTWARE SOL NEED-779 DUE 092997 POC Sally Huber 301/713-0855, Lawrence Frazier 301/713-0851 70 -- The U.S. Dept of Commerce/NOAA/NESDIS intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Research Systems, Inc, Boulder Co. using Simplified Acquisition Procedures to provide proprietary software license such as IDL license for Windows, Windows 95, or NT with Maintenance and Technical support 8 ea., IDL single user floating network workstation license for Silicon Graphics Irix, Sun Solaris, and HP operating systems with maintenance 4 ea. Other offerors that have the ability to provide the above software are invited to submit information as to their capabilities and any other pertinent data to the address above, to to be received no later than 15 days after the date of this notice. No solictation document exists: therefore, a request for such docuemt will not be considered. Reference NEED-779 (0255)

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