USAFE Contracting Squadron/LGC, Unit 3115, APO AE 09094-3115

D -- OPERATION, SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF UNITED STATES AIR FORCES IN EUROPE (USAFE) REGIONAL PROCESSING CENTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. SOL TBD POC Contract Specialist, Marsha Harris, 011-49-631-536-6803; Contracting Officer, Molly Harris, 011-49-631-536-6807 WEB: Click here for USAFE Contracting business opportunities, http://www.usafe.af.mil/joint/cons/cons.html. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the Contract Specialist, marsha.harris@ramstein.af.mil. The Air Force is planning to compete a contract requiring data automation software specialists to operate and support the USAFE Regional Processing Center and it's customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and provide hardware maintenance on the below equipment. The software support will include system analysts, database administrators, customer service analysts, tape librarians, and communication specialists. Hardware maintenance will be for two 2200/542 mainframes, one local data communication processor, four StorageTek silos (one remotely located), two 9760's disk systems and one 5430 disk array system. The hardware maintenance personnel are required to have a procurement system set-up with a maximum of one week procurement time on any part. A penalty will be assessed if this time limit is not met. All tools and manuals are also required on station to maintain equipment. All personnel must be familiar with UNISYS2200 operations; communication and customer service specialists must know POSIX, GOSIP, UNIX, open systems, message/packet switching systems, TCP/IP, Ethernet, local area networks, and twisted pair technologies, routers, servers, HTML, and must be able to integrate technologies with UNISYS DCP environment. Personnel must be prepared to perform field assistance visits throughout USAFE theater. Performance will support migration of workloads to and from the Regional Processing Center. A Secret level security clearance will be required for performance of a portion of the effort. All contractors interested in participating in this acquisition are requested to express their interest in writing to Ms. Marsha Harris at USAFE Contracting Squadron/LGCZA at the address provided above. Please provide the name of your firm, address, a point of contact, phone and fax numbers and an electronic mail address, if available. (0329)

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