US Army Materiel Command Acquisition Center, Army Research Laboratory Contracting Division, Attn: AMSRL-CS-PR, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SOL DAAD17-99-R-9718 DUE 021099 POC Kevin Hawk, Contract Specialist, (301) 394-3138, Kathleen M. Tennant, Contracting Officer, (301) 394-3439 Acquisition of remedial and preventive hardware maintenance for a variety of minicomputer, workstation, printers, and data communication systems provided by a variety of vendors including, but not limited to, 3 COM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Kinetics Incorporated, Silicon Graphics Incorporated, and Sun Corporation. Response time requirements are four (4) hours for critical systems and 24 hours for non-critical systems. Requirements include formally trained maintenance personnel, documented experience maintaining similar equipment, repair escalation procedures, extensive parts stockage constantly updated to the latest revision levels located within 25 miles of Adelphi, Maryland and 50 miles of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, tracking and installation of OEM engineering change orders (ECOs), and annual certification that systems are eligible for OEM maintenance. Maintenance shall be performed at Adelphi and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland locations. Maintenance personnel shall have a final top-secret personnel security clearance with a current Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) prior to contract initiation. The resultant contract will have options up to five (5) years. F.O.B. Destination. All responsible sources may submit a bid of proposal, which will be considered by the Agency. No telephone requests will be honored. Posted 12/23/98 (W-SN283225). (0357)

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