U.S. Department of Justice, Procurement Services Staff, National Place, Suite 1000, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530

D -- UPGRADE AND CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF ALLEN SYSTEMS GROUP SOFTWARE SOL JOJMD-99-0020 DUE 043099 POC Linda Payne (202) 307-1957 70 -- UPGRADE AND CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF ALLEN GROUP SOFTWARE The Department of Justice (DOJ) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Allen Systems Group, Incorporated, 750 11th Street South, Naples, Florida 33940 for continuing maintenance and upgrades for existing proprietary software currently installed for use on an Amdahl 5995-3550M located at the Justice Data Center-Washington, DC, and an IBM 9672 R46 located at the Justice Data Center-Dallas, Texas. The software packages for the Dallas location are Tracer.DM (including DB/Trace and DB/Tracker) and Fast/Access.DM. The software product for the Washington location is Tempman. Sixty (60) months of maintenance is required for the software products. The required software maintenance support shall include, but is not limited to, providing new releases, updates, documentation and corrections to the software. Any additional functions to the software should be provided as they become available in order to ensure continued reliability and functionality. In addition there should be provision for the upgrade of the software product in the event of an operating system or processor change. The authority is 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Interested parties will have fifteen (15) days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities, (i.e., technical specifications, brochures, and price lists), in the critical areas mentioned above. Responses received without the requested information may be considered nonresponsive to this synopsis. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this synopsis. A determination by the Government not to open the requirement to competition based upon written responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. The anticipated period of performance under any resultant contract will be one year with four (4) one-year options to extend the terms of the contract. Responses shall be submitted to the address shown above to the attention of the Contracting Officer, Linda Payne, referencing JOJMD-99-0020. See Note 22.**** Posted 03/12/99 (W-SN307878). (0071)

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