Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, FOB #3, Room 1541, Washington,(Suitland, MD) DC 20233

70 -- PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE SOL 60-9-6683 POC Linda Catterton (301)457-1840 The Bureau of the Census intends to issue a sole source contract to Statistics Canada, 120 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario Canada for software and services for use by the United States Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration. Work will involve producing the Industry Coding Classification System (ICCS) changes from data provided on the United States NAICS codes. Statistics Canada will produce the database for inital load and instruct staff at the Census Bureau on it's installation and use. Services will include the United States' share of cost for license allowing Statistics Canada to redistribute the embedded remote procedure call software developed by Nobel Networking Inc. This is a proprietary product developed by Statistics Canada who has full licensing rights to the product. Interest parties may identify their interest and capabilities in response to this requirement no greater than 15 days from the published date of this announcement to the above address. The determination by the Government not to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct future competitive procurements. No solicitation document exists and request for such document will be considered nonresponsive. Posted 04/29/99 (W-SN325941). (0119)

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