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70 -- LOTUS NOTES SOL MDA410-98-Q-0043 DUE 070698 POC Vicki Liedel, (703) 696-3852, X1411 DoDEA is requesting quotes from sources capable of supplying licenses, maintenance and support for Lotus Communication Software via Total Campus Communication Academic Passport Option. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. Quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This Solicitation number is MDA410-98-Q-0043 and is issued as a request for quotations. This action will be processed using the simplified acquisition procedures. DoDEA is an education activity and qualifies for academic/educational pricing. The contractor warrants that each hardware, software, and firmware product delivered under this contract shall be able to accurately process date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations to the extend that other information technology, used in combination with the information technology being acquired, properly exchanges date/time data with it. If the contract requires that specific products must perform as a system in accordance with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply to those products as a system. The duration of this warranty and the remedies available to the Government for breach of this warranty shall be as defined in, and subject to, the terms and limitations of the contractor's standard commercial warranty or warranties contained in this contract, provided that notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in such commercial warranty or warranties, the remedies available to the Government under this warranty shall include repair or replacement of any product whose noncompliance is discovered and made known to the contractor in writing within ninety (90) days after acceptance. Nothing inthis warranty shall be construed to limit any rights or remedies the Government may otherwise have under this contract with respect to defects other than Year 2000 performance. The following clauses/provisions apply to this Solicitation and are in effect through FAC 97-04 and DAC 91-13: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial; 52.212-3, Offerors Representations and Certifications -- Commercial Items -- which must accompany the offeror's bid/quote; 52.212-4, Contract Terms and conditions -- Commercial Items; 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders -- Commercial Items; 52.222-26, Equal Opportunity; 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans; 52.222-36, Affirmative Action for Handicapped Workers; 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era. The following DFAR provisions are hereby incorporated by reference: 252.204-7004, Required Central Contractor Registration and 252.232-7009, Payment by Electronic Funds Transfer (CCR) (Jun 98); 252.227-7015, Technical Data-Commercial Items. The SIC Code is 7372. A single award will be made to the responsible offeror whose offer conforms with all requirements of this solicitation and whose proposal reflects the lowest cost or price. CLIN 0001 -- Lotus Part No. G12689, License for Lotus Communications Software under the Total Campus Communications Academic Passport Option -- quantity of 89,358 ea; CLIN 0002 -- Lotus Part No. G12906, Maintenance for Lotus Communications Software Academic Passport Option (not separately priced); CLIN 0003 -- Lotus Part Number G12912, Support for Lotus Communications Software Academic Passport Option (not separately priced), local business day and business hours, telephone support at DoDEA HQ (Arlington, VA) and three regional offices located in Germany, Panama and Japan, individuals to be identified after award; CLIN 0004 -- Lotus Part No. G12429, Support Upgrade for one person for Lotus Communications Software Academic Passport Option, upgrade telephone communications support (CONUS) to allow for 24 hours per day, 7 days per week support; CLIN 0005 -- Part Number G21286, 10 Incident Package Telephone Support, minimum of 9-maximum of 25; CLIN 0006 -- Part Number G12442, 20 Incident Package Telephone Support, minimum of 1-maximum of 25. Minimum amounts will be ordered with initial purchase order. Subsequent amounts will be ordered via modification to purchase order. Delivery will be FOB destination (Arlington, VA), 30 days ARO. Proposals, along with Representations and Certifications, DUNs, TIN and Cage Codes, are due by 6 Jul 98, 4:00 p.m., EST and must be submitted in writing to the address shown above. Fax proposals will not be accepted. For additional information, contact Vicki Liedel, (703) 696-3852, x1411. (0169)

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