Health Care Financing Administration; 7500 Security Blvd.; Baltimore, MD 21244

70 -- BMC SOL RPF-HCFA-99-2001/PH DUE 092299 POC Peggy Hetrick, Contract Specialist, (410) 786-3011 The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis with the BMC Corporation for upgrades of BMC products currently installed at the HCFA Data Center. The tools are used to model and measure performance at the HCFA Data Center. The products include: Best/1-Datacenter,Capture/Datacenter, Visualizer for Datacenter, DB2 Support Facility, Batch Support Facility and CICS Support Facility. are The BMC products are of a proprietary natureand is therefore the only responsible source that can provide the software upgrades to fulfill this requirement. RFP is unavailable. Posted 09/03/99 (D-SN376591). (0246)

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