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

D -- COMPUTER HARDWARE, OPERATING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE FOR A PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY SOL FN 98-01 DUE 110698 POC Ralph R. Thadeus, Purchasing Agent, 314/286-4234; Contracting Officer, Beverly Franklin The St. Louis (Missouri) Housing Authority (SLHA) is soliciting proposals to provide computer hardware, operating system, application software, training in the use of these systems and future support services. All proposed systems must meet the needs and 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 orders, client re-examinations, applicant processing and wait listing. 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. 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. (CCS). This software is written in PICK Basic and runs on an ADDS Mentor 7000 system in a climate control environment. The SLHA has one Local Area Network server using Windows NT 4.0. The overall purpose of this solicitation is to achieve Year 2000 compliance. Solicitation documents are available immediately from the SLHA, Procurement Section -- third floor, 4100 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108. 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 receive sealed proposals for the equipment, software 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 10/15/98 (W-SN262542). (0288)

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