Defense Supply Center Richmond, 8000 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23297-5000

D -- LEASE OF B & L SOFTWARE SOL DSCR-ZI-07-99 DUE 060999 POC Mary Wingfield, Contract Specialist, (804) 279-3930 The Defense Supply Center Richmond, Richmond, VA intends to renew a purchase order on a sole source basis with B & L Associates, Inc., Needham, MA for lease of B & L Software; consisting of BL/LIB/ BL/DIST, BL/PACK, BL/SOURCE, and BL/SCHED. The software will be leased for a period of one(1) year. The software products include Tape Library Management, Source Control, Print Distribution Control and Scheduling. The lease provides a software product that will allow printouts from the DADMS system (NIMA) to be sent to a server. The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. Companies who can provide B & L proprietary software products as indicated above must indicate their interest in writing and provide written evidence of third party agreements from the intended contractor owning the software within fifteen(15) days of this notice. Response must include documentation in sufficient detail to allow for the evaluation of supplies/services. No solicitation document is available and requests for such will be considered non-responsive. 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. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. However, all proposals received will be considered by the Government. Oral communications are not acceptable. Facsimile number is (804) 279-3246. Point of contact -- Mary Wingfield. Posted 05/19/99 (W-SN333420). (0139)

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