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A -- INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ISE) SOL DTRS57-99-R-00008 DUE 100199 POC Point of Contact -- Carol Ferrante, Contracting Officer, (617) 494-2421 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, ferrante@volpe.dot.gov. The Volpe Center has a requirement to make multiple awards of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to provide services related to Information Systems Engineering (ISE). This solicitation is for the re-procurement of the ISE services currently provided under the Multiple Contractor Resource Base, commonly known as the OMNI Contracts. This solicitation seeks resources to support all phases of the ISE life-cycle. When performed as an integral part of an ISE Task Order, work in the basic support areas e.g., multiple information systems development/integration. Task Orders may include requirements in some or all of the following areas: 1) Information Systems Security; 2) Networking and Communications (National and International Standards); 3) Information Distribution and Wareh ousing; 4) Artificial Intelligence (AI); 5) Distributed Databases; 6) Geographic Information Systems; 7) Software Application Approach; 8) Project Management and Control; and 8) Applied Behavioral Science. Volpe s clientbase requires that vendor teams offer capabilities and knowledge sharing mechanisms relating to: 1) existing technologies/methodologies that address current logistics and transportation issues and 2) cutting edge technologies/methodologies that show promise of transforming the transportation/logistics enterprise during the life of this contract. This is not a small Business set-aside; however, the Volpe Center, given acceptable proposals, intends to make at least one award to a small business and at least one award to small disadvantaged business. The SIC Code for this procurement is 7379. The Volpe Center uses electronic commerce to issue RFPs and amendments to RFPs. Paper copies of the RFP or amendments will not be issued. These documents will be available on a WWW server which may be accessed using Web browsers. The WWW address, or URL, of the Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page is: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors wanting to receive electronic notification of the solicitations posting and availability for downloading may register at the Volpe Center site. Contractors are warned that when they register to receive solicitations, amendments and other notices, the responsibility for providing the Government with an accurate and complete e-mail address lies with the contractor. The Government will make no additional efforts to deliver information when the system indicates that transmissions cannot be delivered to the e-mail address provided. This notice is for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Small Business And Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has a program to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital assistance for transportation-related contracts. Loans are available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532 -1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting official listed above. Posted 07/15/99 (D-SN354314). (0196)

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