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B -- INTERNET RESOURCE MONITORING CAPABILITY SOL DTRS57-00-Q-80048 DUE 060100 POC Point of Contact -- Katherine Chao, Purchasing Agent, (617) 494-3124 WEB: Volpe Center Acquisition Division home page, http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. E-MAIL: Purchasing Agent, Chao@volpe.dot.gov. This is a synopsis for commercial items in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Parts 12 and 13.5. The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center has a requirement to provide an Internet monitoring capability (IMC) for the Federal Aviation Administration. The capability will serve two key purposes: 1) Monitoring and reporting on how much FAA wide area network resources are used by internet communications (particularly bandwidth utilization on FAA wide area networking resources as well as traffic composition); 2) Monitoring and reporting on potentially inappropriate internet use. The IMC shall be able to provide reports on Internet sites visited by FAA users including highlighting use of potentially inappropriate web sites. The contractor will provide and install an I MC at four FAA sites (New Jersey, District of Columbia, Oklahoma and California). The vendor must provide limited product support for a period of at least one-year. The vendor will provide 10 hours of on-site training atone government location. No telephone requests will be accepted. The applicable SIC Code is 7373. The size standard is 750 employee. 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: http://www.volpe.dot.gov/procure/index.html. Offerors desiring to receive electronic notification of the solicitation's posting and availability f or 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. NO HARD COPIES of the solicitation will be mailed. Telephone requests will not be honored. The following notice is notice for informational purposes for Minority, Women-Owned and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises: The Department of Transportation (DOT), Short Terms Lending Program (STLP) offers working capital financing in the form of lines of credit to finance accounts receivable for transportation related contracts. Maximum line of credit is $500,000. In addition, a short-term loan program is available to provide working capital at the prime interest rate. For further information regarding these programs, please call the DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at (800) 532-1169;http://osdbuweb.dot.gov. For information concerning this acquisition, contact the contracting official cited above. Posted 06/01/00 (D-SN460491). (0153)

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