U. S. Department of Agriculture, National Finance Center (NFC), 13800 Old Gentilly Rd., Bldg. 350, MAF, New Orleans, LA 70129

70 -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT SOL ACQ NO 11388 DUE 041398 POC Point of Contact -- Mrs. F. G. Collins, Contract Specialist, (504) 255-5910 E-MAIL: USDA, National Finance Center, florence.collins@usda.gov. USDA, OCFO, National Finance Center (NFC), is seeking to eliminate the printing of large quantities of documents, warehouse storage, and the manual processing of filling customer publication orders. The agency currently uses the Electronic Publishing System (EPS), Interleaf 6 publishing software platform and other supporting products such as Relational Document Manager (RDM), Cyberleaf, Interleaf WorldView. The NFC is seeking a turnkey solution to add On Demand Printing capability to the EPS. On demand printing, digitally stored files, and short print runs are highly favorable to the agency. Interleaf's DemandPrint2 software provides the EPS with an On Demand Printing software solution that is fully integrated with installed Interleaf publishing tools, and is compatible with the Xerox DocuTech 6135 printers that will be the output module of the On Demand Printing environment. The EPS hardware includes IBM RS/6000 servers with a RAID subsystem, IBM RS/6000 workstations, SUN SPARC workstations, IBM PS/2 PC's utilizing X-Windows emulation, Synoptics network systems, QMS laser printers, Canon color copiers with Postscript Intelligent Processing Units (PS-IPU's), a Laser Master large format color printer, and a Varityper image setter, connected by a dual-ring Token RIng network using TCP/IP. The EPS interfaces with and is supported by an IBM9X2 mainframe system, and the NFC enterprise -- a wide Novell local area network infrastructure. Delivery is required within 60 calendar days after receipt of a contract. Installation, implementation, tailoring, and training will be scheduled. The option to renew maintenance services for an additional four (4) years is solicited. The government intends to procure Interleaf DemandPrint2 Application Sub-System with Implementation Package, SUN Microsystems UltraSPARC2 Print Server and Racal-Datacom Excalibur ISX 5300 T1 Channel DSU/CSU with SNMP turnkey solution from The Systems Group, Austin, TX. " See Note(s) 1, 22" (0072)

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