U.S. Department of Justice, Procurement Services Staff, National Place, Suite 1040, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530

D -- UPGRADE TO SOFTWARE LICENSES SOL DOJ-SAS-9-Q-084 DUE 082799 POC Angela Mitchell (202) 307-1947 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commerical items prepared in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 12.6 for commercial items as supplemented with additional information included in the notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. This solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-12. Offerors must comply with all instructions contained in provision 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors -- Commercial Items. The Department of Justice intends to procure, on a sole source basis, from Sterling Software, Inc., Reston, VA. licenses to upgrade existing miniframe software to run on a larger CPU. Sterling Software is uniquely qualified to upgrade service for the software since they retain all proprietary source codes for the software products. Firm Fixed Price. IBM 9672-R56 S/N 49010 (Group 110). Line Item 0001 SOLVE: Netmaster for TCP/IP; Line Item 0002 SOLVE: TCPaccess; Line Item 0003 SOLVE: EPS and Line Item 0004 SOLVE: Fault Tolerance. The following additional provisions and clauses apply: Provision 52.212-3, Offeror Representation and Certification-Commercial Item. Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Item, 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statues or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, to include Clauses (8) Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders Applicable to Defense Acquisitions of Commerical Items, 252.225-7001, Buy American Act and Balance of Payment Program (41 U.S.C.10, E.O. 10582), and 252.225-7046 North Amercian Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Alt 1). Posted 08/18/99 (W-SN369701). (0230)

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