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R -- ONSITE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES AT THE VOLPE CENTER SOL DTRS57-99-R-00020 DUE 120299 POC Point of Contact -- Michael Leary, Contract Specialist, (617) 494-2673 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Contract Specialist, learym@volpe.dot.gov. ONSITE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) intends to issue a solicitation for onsite Technical Support Services. These Technical Support Services will include strategic and detailed technology assessments, requirements analysis, concept development, architecture design and alternatives analysis; software development; testing and integration; system training; system maintenance; system operational support for both transportation and logistics management information systems; and command and control, communication, and intelligence systems. Services will cover the full spectrum from stand-alone applications to large-scale, integrated worldwide systems. These Technical Support Services are currently being provided under an Informatio n Systems (IS) Contract No. DTRS57-97-C-00064 with Computer Sciences Corporation, Rockville, MD. In addition, this acquisition includes an option for Operations Research and Analysis (ORA) Support Services. These ORA services will include the analysis and assessment of transportation systems and issues from a variety of perspectives. These perspectives include system performance and effectiveness; supply and demand forecasts; impact analysis; socio-economic analysis; industry analysis; policy and regulatory development; strategic planning; operations and maintenance assessment; risk assessments; capital investment needs; infrastructure and equipment management; metrics development; and critical technologies planning and evaluation. The ORA services are currently being performed under C ontract No. DTRS57-97-C-00095 with EG&G Dynatrend, Wellesley, MA. For informational purposes, a redacted version of these current contracts may be viewed at the following Website: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/foia/index.html. It is expected that the solicitation for this effort will be issued on or about October 15, 1999, with contract award planned for August 1, 2000. Please note that there will be a contract transition period immediately following contract award with a duration of approximately 90 days. Full contract performance is expected to begin on or about November 1, 2000, with the full period of contract performance of five years thereafter, including exercise of options. This acquisition will be released using full and open competition. All responsible sources may submit a propo sal which shall be considered by the agency. A preproposal conference and site visit will be held for this acquisition approximately two weeks after issuance of the solicitation. Further details of this conference will be provided in the solicitation. The Volpe Center uses electronic commerce to issue RFPs and amendments to RFPs. Paper copies of the RFP or amendments will not be issued. The solicitation and any document related to this procurement will be available on the Internet; these documents will be available in text format and reside 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 as follows: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. The Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page also contains an electronic vendor reference library for this acquisition. Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's 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 and Disadvantage d Business Utilization (OSDBU), has programs to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. This is applicable to any eligible prime or subcontract at any tier. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, performance and payment bonds up to $1.0 million per contract. The DO T provides an 80% guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. Loans are also 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 Bonding Assistance Program and/or the STLP, please call the OSDBU at (800) 532-1169. For information concerning the acquisition, contact the contracting officials listed above. Posted 09/24/99 (D-SN384095). (0267)

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