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70 -- TELEPHONY TEST SYSTEM SOL TIRNO98R00066 DUE 071598 POC Contract Specialist, Cynthia A. Smith, 202-283-1351 This is a notice of intent to negotiate with Hammer Technologies, 226 Lowell Street, Wilmington, MA 01887 on a sole source basis to purchase the following Hammer Integrated Telecommunications (IT) system w/24 ports T1 and rackmount chassis, 3 each 24 ports T1 w/Hammer software license, 18 ports speech recognition w/license, 4 ports analog w/4 port license, data support TCP/IP and serial support, PC Anywhere 32 license for limited remote control, and portable Hammer IT chassis (PC laptop). Training equipment and services will also be procured. The Hammer IT system is unique and currently the only telephony test system with speech recognition that can successfully listen to and understand all the interactive voice response (IVR) prompts generated by the computer telephony (CT) applications in the IRS' TeleFile system, verify if the correct prompt is spoken at the right point of the call flow, and save the bad prompt for later review. The Hammer IT system is also unique in that the IT system successfully emulates a telephone handset dialing into the TeleFile system, listens and responds to IVR prompts, and simulates a specific TeleFile transaction through the entire call flow, while capturing all the interactions and automatically generating a test script from the interactions that can be modified in real time using graphically assisted visual basic compatible test language with ScriptBuilder and rerun on multiple T-1 and ISDN telephone network connections, along with other Hammer IT-generated test scripts to load and stree the TeleFile CT applications and test all data paths in the call flow of each application. Interested vendors may submit a technical capability statement to the above address. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Information received as a result of this notice will be evaluated and considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive acquisition. If no affirmative responses are received by July 15, 1998, a contract will be awarded to Hammer Technologies, Inc. Note 22 (0166)

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