U.S. Army Materiel Command, Natick Contracting Division, Attn: AMSSB-ACN, Natick, MA 01760-5011

58 -- EYE GLASSES WITH LOOK AROUND DISPLAY, MICROPHONE & SPEAKER SOL W13G07-9210-6001 DUE 082099 POC Peggy Dube WEB: Business Opportunities/US Army Soldier & Biological, http://www3.natick.army.mil. E-MAIL: To contact Contract Specialist, pdube@natick-notes02-army.mil. SOLE SOURCE: The U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command intends to conduct negotiations and award a Purchase Order using Simplified Acquisition Procedures, to Micro Optical Corporation, Westwood, MA on the basis of other than full and open competition. The items to be procured are as follows: Eye glasses with look around integrated color SVGA 800X600 display, microphone, and speaker compatable with IBM Thinkpad series computers; Eye glasses with see through color SVGA 800X600 display with microphone, speaker pipe and camera compatable with IBM Thinkpad series computers; Eye glasses with look around integrated color IEEE 1394 800X600 color display, with microphone, and speaker built in. These Eyeglass based displays will be used in conjunction with a commercial laptop computer to evaluate Graphical User Interfaces required to use a wearable computer. Only Micro Optical Corporation offers 800X600 resolution in an Eye Glass form factor in addition to a speaker and microphone mounted in the glasses. Responses to this announcement should be received no later than 20 August 1999. No solicitation document is available. See Note 22. Posted 08/05/99 (W-SN363548). (0217)

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