U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, Room 1230, 844 North Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611-2092

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INCLUDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SOL rfi 99-c-32 POC Velinda Nix 312/751-3387 In response to letters submitted requesting hardware and software configuration for the RRB, the technical panel offered this answer. The technical panel has decided that sufficient information (the name of the product currently employed, TextBOOK, by Document Sciences, how the source documents are stored in the database, SGML, the size, less than 500 megabytes, and finally how the product is operated, mainframe) was provided to permit each offeror the opportunity to respond to this request for information. Posted 08/19/99 (W-SN370055). (0231)

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