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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE ADP EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES & SUPPORT EQUIPMENT POC Vernessa Younger, Contract Specialist, (202) 942-4999, James L. Vandecar, Contracting Officer, (202) 942-8640 Notice of intent to award a sole source contract to SAS Institute, SAS Circle, Box 8000, Cary, North Carolina 27512-8000, for licenses to use SAS Base, SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, and SAS/Graph, for the period October 1, 1997 through September 30, 1998. The software shall provide information storage and retrieval, data modification and programming (creating variables, accumulating totals, checking for errors, programming DO/END and IF-THEN/ELSE conditions, reporting writing, statistical analysis(descriptive statistics and complex multivariate techniques and linear module procedures), and file handling (Combining values and observations from several data sets, including editing, subsetting, concatenating, merging, and updating), and base support for SAS/ETS(for business analysis, forecasting, and financial planning). See Number Note(s): 22. (0282)

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