Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), Office of Information Technology, Technology Policy, Planning and Acquisitions Office, IT Contracting, 1 Columbus Circle NE, Room 3-170, Washington, DC 20544

70 -- SUSTAIN SOFTWARE DUE 040198 POC Howard Grandier (202) 273-2308 The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts intends to make a sole source award to Choice Information Systems for their commercially available SUSTAIN software product. This product will satisfy the United States Court of International Trade's (CIT) requirements for an integrated electronic environment that combines a case management system (ICMS) with electronic case filing and document imaging, for parties participating in or interested in litigation before the CIT. The ICMS component of the software is a relational database management system designed to serve as a central repository of information relevant to the history of a case commenced in the CIT. The electronic filing component will provide a mechanism whereby litigants, the court and the public are able to interact electronically with respect to the filing, transmission of, and access to pleadings, other papers, orders and decisions of the CIT in a secure environment. The document imaging component will provide an electronic viewing link between a docketed event and the documents that underlies the event, and will provide the court with a mechanism to take pleadings, other papers, orders and decisions that appear initially in hard copy and recreate them in electronic form. After extensive market research, extensive evaluations, and vendor demonstrations against CIT's requirements, SUSTAIN was determined to be the only available package that met CIT's requirements. Choice Information Systems therefore has been determined to be the only available source of supply that can satisfy the CIT's requirements. Any interested parties who believe that they currently have a demonstrable integrated package that provides the functionality described above should submit detailed functional and technical capability information, along with pricing information, to the attention of Mr. Howard Grandier, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, One Columbus Circle, NE, Room 3-170, Washington, DC 20544. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether or not it is advantageous for the Government to investigate such a claim and ultimately conduct a competitive procurement. If a solicitation is issued, an additional synopsis will be published. Submissions must be submitted to Mr. Grandier at the above address within 15 calendar days from publication of this notice. Parties who fail to include the detailed functional and technical capability information will not be considered. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. (0069)

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