70 -- NOTICE OF INTENT The Social Security Administration (SSA) intends to negotiate a sole-source purchase order under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures to Mainstar Software Corporation, 12011 NE 1st Street, Bellevue, WA 98005-3182 for the acquisition of an "add-on" support product to work in conjunction with Aggregate Backup and Recovery Services (ABARS) to support data identification, data backup and data movement for three major initiatives: Year 2000 test, Backup and Recovery Contingency Processing and the establishment of various LPAR test facilities. The following is a list of the ABARS critical requirements that will meet SSA's minimum needs as follows: 1) supports incremental backup of ABARS aggregates; 2) provides aggregate backup balancing; 3) allows recovery of individual dataset by providing an easy interactive method; 4) provides extended dataset rename; 5) ABARS activity monitor to associate started task to aggregate being backed up; 6) no exits required for implementation; 7) provides an inventory database of ABARS aggregates; and 8) provides secondary user panels. Mainstar Software Corporation's Recovery Solutions Software (RS) (also called ABARS Manager/ASAP) is the only known software product that meets all of SSA's minimum requirements as stated herein. Any responsible firm that believes it has the capability to provide an equivalent software product shall provide a quotation, and technical literature substantiating that the offered product meets all of the aforementioned requirements, to SSA no later than 10 calendar days after the issue date of this announcement. When responding to this announcement, respondents should refer to ABARSMGR98. Responses should be submitted to the address cited at the beginning of this notice. FAXED RESPONSES SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED. WEB: cbd listing, http://www.ssa.gov/oag/oag2.htm.

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