St. Louis Housing Authority, Contracts Division -- Third Floor, 4100 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63108-2999

D -- COMPUTER HARDWARE, OPERATING SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONSOFTWARE FOR A PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY SOL FN 98-01 DUE 110698 POC Ralph R. Thadeus, Purchasing Agent, 314/286-4268; Contracting Officer, Beverly Franklin The St. Louis (Missouri) Housing Authority (SLHA) is soliciting proposals to provide computer hardware, operating system and application software, training in the use of these systems and future support services. All proposed systems must meet the requirements of a public housing agency. Since 1990 the SLHA has utilized Applied Digital Data System (ADDS) as the primary system. This system is used for all phases of computer operation including: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, inventory, work order, client reexaminations, applicant process and wait list. We currently have in place a variety of equipment including dumb terminals and a variety of printers at the Central Office and at twenty-three remote sites. The remote sites are connected to our CPU through hard wiring, leased, ISDN and modem access. All personal computers in use are equipped with terminal emulation programming (ProComm) and allow for word processing, e-mail and other localized applications. Currently we use software written by Creative Computer Solutions, Inc. This software is written in PICK Basic and runs on an ADDS Mentor 7000 system which utilizes PICK Basic operating software. This sytem is not used for word processing but does have forms and letter generating features. The ADDS Mentor 7000 is located in a climate control environment. The system operates with two 760MB and one 1.2GB hard drives. Terminal and printer ports are daisy chained together and connected to the mini-tower. The system has the capacity of 240 serial connections. The system is also utilizing twenty-five ADDS 4000 dumb terminals. The Central Office is wired by ARCNET design with coax cabling. The remote locations are interfaced through seventeen leased data circuits; five ISDN circuits all are hosted by a MultiTech Systems Inc. multiplexer (MMH908C/MMH908Ca/MMH908IS) and router. Locations dialing in are using three Practical Peripheral modems. Each development location has at least one personal computer and one to three dumb terminals on site. All personal computers are utilizing ProComm communication software as terminal emulators. Thirty-six ADDS and one McDonnell Douglas terminals and keyboards are used remotely. The SLHA has one Local Area Network server. The operating system for the LAN server is Windows NT 4.0. Currently the servers are used to handle the word processing, e-mail and Internet access. The overall purpose of this solicitation is to achieve Year 2000 compliance. Solicitation documents will be available for pick-up at the SLHA, Procurement Section -- third floor, 4100 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108, starting at 10:00 a.m. (local time) October 9, 1998. A pre-proposal conference will be held at 3:00 p.m. (local time) October 22, 1998, at the SLHA, 4100 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. The SLHA will received sealed proposals for the equipment and services until 3:00 p.m. (local time), November 6, 1998. All proposals must be received in the Procurement Section by the stated time. All offerors must comply with Section 3 requirements. Posted 10/06/98 (W-SN259508). (0279)

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