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D -- D -- INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND MICROCOMPUTER SUPPORT SOL 2000-N-00120 DUE 100100 POC Deborah Fallick, Contract Specialist, Phone (770)488-2602, Fax (770)488-2670, Email DFallick@CDC.GOV WEB: Visit this URL for the latest information about this, http://www.eps.gov/cgi-bin/WebObjects/EPS?ACode=P&ProjID=2000-N-00120&LocID=2965. E-MAIL: Deborah Fallick, DFallick@CDC.GOV. D -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to issue a draft request for proposals for the acquisition of information systems development and microcomputer support services. The contract is anticipated to be a single award, ID/IQ Task Order type contract with the flexibility to award cost plus fixed fee, fixed price, time and materials and labor hour task orders dependent on the scope of the statements of work associated with the task order. The contract will not be a requirements type contract. The period of performance is 7 years with an anticipated basic period of performance of 12 calendar months from date of award with six one year option periods not to exceed 84 months. The estimated number of hours for the effort is 9,079,000. At the present time CDC is contemplating the contract will include programming services scopes of work which heretofore were small business set-asides in Cincinnati, Ohio and Morgantown, West Virginia, as well as the inclusion of the newly awarded,2 1/2 year CDC-wide Microcomputer Support and Services contract also awarded as a total small business set-aside. CDC will be requesting the bundling of these scopes of work from the Small Business Administration and pending their approval will issue the final RFP with these scopes included in the RFP. The work under this contract is anticipated to consist of a variety of programming and microcomputer support services to CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) including various information systems technologies and computing platforms including mainframe, microprocessor workstation, and network server technologies including client-server applications. Work involves information and data analysis systems in support of CDC's mission, including performing requirements analyses; design and development of new systems; ensuring information systems security; modification, maintenance and conversion of existing systems; data and database administration; training users in both CDC-developedand commercial applications; hot-line user support to application users including CDC staff and state and local health professionals throughout the U.S. in the use of CDC-developed applications; programming support for the analysis of scientific, statistical, and public health data; systems integration, data conversion, and data communications via networking and telecommunications between disparate systems and geographic locations; data entry and keypunch support; graphics and desktop publishing; and computer center facilities operation. Work to be performed also includes hardware repair and maintenance of Government microcomputer equipment; maintaining a spare parts inventory; software support including installation, integration, operation and user orientation; local and wide area network administration and support; problem diagnosis and tracking including maintaining a CDC-wide Help Desk; and video teleconferencing support. Existing technology is primarily Pentium-based microprocessors and installed microcomputers run Windows 95 and NT which are connected to IBM token ring and Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs) running Novell NetWare version 4.11 operating system (soon to be upgraded to 5.x). CDC plans to migrate to Novell NetWare 5.x in the near future, and to Sonic ring in the next 12 -- 18 months. CDC's network topology is a combination of token ring over type 1 cable, FDDI over category 5 cable, and Ethernet over type 1 or category 5 cable. Supported protocols are TCP/IP, IPX, and SPX and CDC interconnects to the Internet. The LANs are connected together into a Wide Area Network (WAN) using multi protocol and high speed routers over fiber optic cable or leased data lines. A broadband Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) interconnects all large Atlanta campuses. Currently FDDI is the method used for the WAN. Within a 12 -18 month period, the WAN will use ATM over T-1 and the MAN will migrate to an OC-48 network. Offerors must be capable of repairing and maintaining equipment from a variety of manufacturers, i.e., Dell, Compaq, AST, SUN microcomputers, with a few MacIntosh. Contract performance will be at CDC's primary offices in Atlanta, GA as well as in Washington, DC; Cincinnati, OH; Morgantown, WV; Hyatttsville, MD; and Research Triangle Park, NC, as well as in the contractor's facilities. Travel may also be necessary to other CDC sites such as Anchorage, AK; San Juan, PR; and occasional travel outside the United States. The draft solicitation will be available on or about August 31, 2000. Only written requests submitted to the address shown above will be honored. The date specified for receipt of questions/comments on the draft RFP will be approximately 30 days after the draft RFP issue date. Requests for the draft RFP must cite RFP 2000-N-00120. Telephone requests will not be accepted. It is anticipated that the final RFP will be issued January, 2001. CDC will announce the industry day/pre-proposal conference schedule in another CBD notice. Posted 07/07/00 (D-SN472385). (0189)

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