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D -- MAINTENANCE OF SOFTWARE POC Karen Staubs (703) 648-7372 (Contact) Maggie Russell (703) 648-6366 This is not a notice for a solicitation. This announcement is for market research purposes. The U.S. Geological Survey is requesting information from commercial sources regarding maintenance of commercially available software by Praxis, Inc. The software to be maintained, Model 204 Advantage and the Model 204 RACF interface, is located in Reston, Virginia. The Contractor will be required to provide maintenance and source code revision updates for the Model 204 software. Sources offering software maintenance must have a license agreement with Praxis Corp. as they have proprietary rights to the software. Responses from firms who believe they can provide the required software maintenance services should include full technical documentation and descriptive literature on the vendor in such detail to enable the Government to confirm the submitter's capabilities to maintain the software. Publicly available commercial pricing information is also requested in as much detail as possible. Any pricing information submitted that is not publicly available will not be utilized. Neither a draft statement of work nor specifications are available. No formal solicitation or contract will result from this synopsis for industry information. The Government will not pay for information provided in response to this synopsis. Based on information available at this time, the Government considers the required software maintenance to be a sole source and plans to enter into noncompetitive discussions with Praxis, Inc. of Framingham, MA. The Contracting Officer plans to acquire the software maintenance pursuant to FAR 13.6 -- Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Technical and commercial pricing information responding to this synopsis must be received by close of business June 5, 1998. See Note 22.***** (0149)

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