U.S. Information Agency, Office of Contracts, 301 4TH STREET SW, Room M27, Washington, DC 20547

70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (INCLUDING FIRMWARE), SOFTWARE, SUPLLIES, AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT SOL IA-2102-S8234773 -- Z DUE 012398 POC Karen S. Rose, Tele.: (202) 205-9030 The United States Information Agency, International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) seeks sources for imprinting of multilingual characters on standard keycaps from Personal Computer (PC) keyboards. The IBB is developing a multilingual word processor to be used by members of its staff to prepare radio broadcast scripts in approximately 48 different languages. As part of this, the IBB has a requirement to provide multilingual keyboards for these users, with the keys showing the characters or glyphs that are appropriate to the specific language. The Government will provide both the loose keycaps (which fit onto the PC keyboards), and professional keycap artwork; the imprinting vendor (selected pursuant to this CBD) will then imprint the appropriate artwork onto the tops and sides of the keycaps, and deliver the completed product back to the Government. Imprinting shall be of professional grade, in terms of legibility and alignment, and durable, such that it does not come off under normal usage. All qualified suppliers of keycap imprinting services are requested to submit a written description of their corporate capabilities and compliant services to the USIA Contracting Officer at the above-listed address before the closing response date listed above. This notice is not a RFP.***** (0008)

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