Department of Veterans Affairs (381), Austin Automation Center, 1615 E. Woodward St., Austin, TX 78772

D -- SOFTWARE LICENSE FOR RSD EOS WEB API SOL 200-19-99 DUE 033199 POC Justina S. Hamberg, CO: 512-326-6501 E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail Justina Hamberg (Contracting, justina.hamberg@mail.va.gov. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Austin Automation Center (AAC) is hereby issuing a sole source combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR 12.6, and supplemented with information included in this notice. THIS NOTICE IS THE SOLICITATION, RFP 200-19-99, and is being issued as a request for quotation; a written solicitation will not be issued. Requests for a written solicitation will be considered non-responsive. Proposals are due by NOON CST on March 31, 1999. The solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-11. The AAC previously acquired the RSD base software for EOS Web API for customization to suit the requirements of the AAC. Now, the AAC intends to award a sole source contract to RSD (300 Frank W. Burr Blvd., Teaneck, NJ 07666) for their proprietary software license to Enterprise Output Solution (EOS) Web Application Program Interface (API) and to the customized portion. The software license is perpetual. Offerors are required to provide pricing for the following line items: 100 user license fee, and maintenance fee for period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; 250 user license fee, and maintenance fee for period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; 500 user license fee, and maintenance fee for period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; 1000 user license fee, and maintenance fee for period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; 5000 + users site license fee, and maintenance fee for period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; and, maintenance fee for period 3/31/00 to 3/30/01 for each of the different user license fees. Description of Requirements: RSD will grant the software license to the customized EOS Web API and provide software maintenance (updates and enhancements, and technical support) for the RSD EOS Web API software during the period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00. The AAC will make award on one of the user license fee line items and the associated maintenance fee for the period 3/31/99 to 3/30/00; pricing is required for all line items for evaluation purpose only. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, applies. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation-Commercial Items, applies. Offers will be evaluated based on price and technical ability to provide the software license and software maintenance. Offers failing to meet the minimum criteria identified in "Description of Requirements" will be rejected. Offerors are required to include a completed copy of the Provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, in their proposal. FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, applies. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, applies and is incorporated. Addendum to FAR 52.212-4: (n) Title. Unless specified elsewhere in this contract, title to the software furnished under this contract shall remain the sole property of the Contractor or as defined in the software license agreement; (o) Warranty. (Year 2000 Compliance) The Contractor warrants that information technology delivered under this contract shall be able to accurately process date/time data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations, to the extent that other information technology, used in combination with the information technology being acquired, properly exchanges date/time with it. If the contract requires that specific listed products must perform as a system in accordance with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply to those listed products as a system. The duration of this warranty and the remedies available to the Government for breach of this warranty shall be as defined in, and subject to, the terms and limitations of the contractor's standard commercial warranty or warranties contained in this contract, provided that notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in such commercial warranty or warranties, the remedies available to the Government under this warranty shall include repair or replacement of any listed product whose non-compliance is discovered and made known to the contractor in writing within ninety (90) days after acceptance. Nothing in this warranty shall be construed to limit any rights or remedies the Government may otherwise have under this contract with respect to defects other than Year 2000 performance. Non-compliant information technology shall be upgraded to be Year 2000 compliant prior to the earlier of (1) the earliest date on which the information technology may be required to perform date/time processing involving dates later than December 31, 1999, or (2) December 31, 1999. The FAR references cited herein can be found on the Internet at http://www.arnet.gov/far. Proposals can be faxed to 512-326-6028 to the attention of the Contracting Officer, Justina S. Hamberg. Posted 03/29/99 (W-SN313950). (0088)

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