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70 -- PRIME OPERATING SYSTEM SOL NH-99-0098 DUE 113098 POC Lisa Poe 301-713-6755 x 231 or Sylvia E. Edwards 301-713-6755 x 222, Fax: 301-713-6910 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, lisa.poe@arch2.nara.gov. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. The resulting contract will be awarded as a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. (ii) The solicitation number is NH-99-0098, and this solicitation is issued as a request for quote (RFQ). (iii) This solicitation document incorporated provissions and clauses that are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-9. (iv) This is a small business set-aside and the standard industrial classification code (SIC) is 3571, and the small business size standard is less than 1000 employees. The Small Business Competitiveness demonstration program is not applicable to this solicitation. (v) List of contract line item numbers and items, quantities and units of measure. (1) Prime 6650 Central Processing Unit Minicomputer with 128 megabytes of Random Access Memory and the Prime Operating system (PRIMOS) software, Quantity-1 each; (2) 4732 PK1, 1.34 gigabyte disk drive, Quantity-6 each; (3) 75500-6pk, 6 Device Module, A 6 device case for system components, Quantity-1 each; (4) 75500VB Vertical Base Component for the case, Quantity-1 each; (5) 7210 SCSI Disc Controller Cards for disk drive operation, Quantity-2 each; (6) 3030-P6 SLL High Performance Hard disk driver, Quantity-1 each; (7) 5732 ICS3 Subsystem for 6000 communications system controller, Quantity-1 each; (8) CLAC 304 4-Line Asynchronous transfer communications card, Quantity-16 each; (9) 4601 5GB 8mm tape drive for system backups, Quantity-1 each; (10) 7210 SCSI controller card for the tape drive, Quantity-1 each; (11) PT250 terminals with keyboards for data entry and review, Quantity-10 each; (12) 8540-P6 COBOL Software for system operation, Quantity-1 each; (13) 8162-P6 Forms/Fed Software, Quantity-1 each; (14) 8556-P6 MIDASPlus Software, Quantity-1each; (15) 8535-P6 EMACS Software, Quanitity-1 each; (16) 8515-P Fortran 66, Quantity-1 each. (vi) This equipment will replace an existing system and must be Y2K Compliance. (VII) Date of delivery will be within 4 weeks after receipt of purchase order. Place of delivery will be: National Archives and Records Administration, 3301 Metzerott Road, College Park, MD 20740, Attn: A. J. Daverede, NWMDM-D, Room 6330. FOB point is Destination. (viii) Provisions at 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial, applies to this acquisition. (ix) The provision at 52.212-2, Evaluation -- Commercial Items, is applicable to this acquisition. (a) The government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: Price, Technical capability of the item offered to meet the Government requirement, and past performance. (x) Include in your offer a completed copy of the provisions at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and certifications -- Commercial Items. (1) All offerors must submit the information required in paragraphs (b)(3) through (b)(5) of this provision to comply with debt collection requirements of 31 U.S.C. 7701(c) and 3325(d), reporting requirements of 26 U.S.C. 6041A, and 6050M, and implementing regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (2) the TIN may be used by the Government to collect and report on any delinquent amounts arising out of the offeror's relationship with the Government (31U.S.C. 7701(c)(3)). If the resulting contract is subject to the payment reporting requirements described in FAR 4.904, the TIN provided herunder may be matched with IRS records to verify the accuracy of the offeror's TIN. (3) Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). *TIN:______.* TIN has been applied for. *TIN is not required because: * Offeror is a nonresident alien, foreign corporation, or foreign partnership that does not have income effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States and does not have an office or place of business or a fiscal paying oagent in the United States; * Offeror is an agency or instrumentatlity of a foreign government; * Offeror is an agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government. (4) Type of organization. *Sole proprietorship; *Partnership; *Corporate entity (not tax-exempt); * Corporate entity (tax exempt); * Government entity (Federal, State, Local); *Foreign government; *International organization per 26 CFR 1.6049-4; *Other _______. (5) Common parent. *Offeror is not owned or controlled by a common parent; *Name and TIN of common parent: Name _______. TIN ________. c) Offerors must complete the following representations when resulting contract is to be performed inside the United States, its territories or possessions, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territtory of the Pacific Islands, or the District of Columbia. Check all that apply. (1) Small Business concern. The offeror represents as part of its offer that it *is, *is not a small business concern. (2) Small disadvantaged business concern. The offeror represents, for general statistical purposes, that it *is, *is not a small disadvantaged business concern as defined in 13 CFR 124.1002. (3) Women-Owned small business concern. The offeror represents that it *is, * is not a women-owned small business concern. (d) Certifications and representations required to implement provisions of executive Order 11246 -- (1) Certification of non-segregated facilities. By submission of this offer, the offeror certifies that it does not and will not maintain or provide for its employees, any facilities that are segregated on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin because of habit, local custom, or otherwise and that it does not and willnot permit its employees to perform their services at any location where segregated facilities are maintained. The offeror agrees that a breach of this certification is a violation of the Equal Opportunity clause in the contract. (2) Previous contracts and compliance. The offeror represents that -- (1)It * has, *has not, participated in a previous contract or subcontract subject either to the Equal Opportunity clause of the solicitation, the clause originally contained in Section 310 of Executive Order 10925, or the clause contained in Section 201 of Executive Order 11114; and (ii) It * has, *has not, filed all required compliance reports. (3) Affirmative Action Compliance. The offeror represents that -- (I) It *has developed and has on file, * has not developed and does not have on file, at each establishment, affirmative action programs required by rules and regulations of the Secretary of Labor (41 CFR Subparts 60-1 and 60-2), or (ii) It * has not previously had contracts subject to the written affirmative action programs requirement of the rules and regulations of the Secretary of Labor. (h) Certification regarding Debarment, Suspension or Ineligibility for Award (Executive Order 12549). The offeror certifies, to the best of its knowledge and belief, that -- (1) The offeror and/or any of its principals *are, * are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or declared ineligible for the award of contracts by any Federal Agency, and (2) *Have, *have not, within a three-year period preceding this offer, been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against them for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a Federal, State or local government contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or state antitrust statues relating to the submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, tax evasion, or receiving stolen property; and *are, *are not presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a Government entity with, commission of any of these offenses. (xi) Clause at52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition (xii) Clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive ORders -- Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. (xiii) Additional contract requirements or terms and conditions determined by the contracting officer to be necessary for this acquisition and consistent with customary commercial practices are: 1-year on-site warranty covering parts and labor. Mandatory Information for Electronic Funds Transfer Payment, FAR clause 52.232-33. (b) Mandatory submission of Contractor's EFT Information. (1) The contractor is required, as a condition to any payment under this contract, to provide the Government with the information required to make payment by EFT as described in paragraph (d) of this clause, unless the payment office determines that submission of the information is not required. However, until January 1, 1999, in the event the contractor certifies in writing to the payment office that the contractor does not have an account with a financial institution or an authorized payment agent, payment shall be made by other than EFT. For any payments to be made after January 1, 1999, the Contractor shall provide EFT information as described in paragraph (d) of this clause. (d) Required EFT information. The Government may make payment by EFT through either an Automated Clearing House (ACH) subject to the banking laws of the United States or the Federal Reserve Wire Transfer System at the Government's option. The Contractor shall provide the following information for both methods in a form acceptable to the designated payment office. (4) for ACH Payments only: (i) Name, address, and 9-digit Routing Transit Number of the Contractor's financial agent. (ii) Contractor's account number and the type of account (checking, savings, or lockbox). (e) Suspension of payment. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other clause of this contract, the Government is not required to make any payment under this contract until after receipt, by the designated payment office, of the correct EFT payment information from the contractor or a certificate submitted in accordance with paragraph (b) of this clause. Until receipt of the correct EFT information, any invoice or contract financing request shall be deemed not to be a valid invoice or contract financing request as defined in the Prompt Payment clause of this contract. (xiv) Defense Priorites and Allocations System (DPAS) and assigned rating are not applicable to this solicitation. (xv) Applicable Commerce Business Daily (CBD) notes are: 1. The proposed contract is 100% set aside for small business concerns. (xvi) Offers are due November 30, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. EST to: National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740, Attn: Lisa Poe, NAA, Rm 3360. (xvii) For more information regarding this solicitation, you may contact Lisa Poe at 301-713-6755 x 231. Posted 11/23/98 (W-SN274087). (0327)

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