USDA, Office of Operations, Room 1547-South Building, 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250

70 -- ALLEN SYSTEMS GROUP SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE POC Contact Point, Beverly Brown, (202)720-8614 The United States Department of Agriculture intends to add to its existing contract 54-3142-4- 1007 the renewal of software maintenance for the following Allen Systems software products: FAST ACCESS, PRE-ALERT and TRACER. The software is currently installed on an IBM- compatible, large scale, mainframe CPU located at the National Finance Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rate of use is determined by MIPS. Alternative sources responding to this announcement may be considered non-responsive if they offer products not priced by MIPS or offer terms otherwise limiting USDA's use of software to process its own data and other Agencies data. USDA has the right to allow any authorized end-user to access and use applications designed, developed, maintained and operated using the software. USDA has the right to allow any authorized end-user to access and use applications designed, developed, maintained and operated using the software; operate and/or test at contingency cold- and hot-site facilities and use the products to run benchmarks on other computers. Interested parties may provide information on their capabilities to meet this requirement. In order to be evaluated, respondents must submit clear and convincing documentation. The documentation must include descriptive literature with sufficient technical information to substantiate respondent's ability to meet USDA's needs and pricing. This is not a request for offers or proposals. No solicitation documents exist. Requests for an IFB or RFP will not receive an acknowledgement. All responses to this notice must be received within fifteen days from the date of publication of this notice. Responses must be sent to Beverly Brown, USDA, Office of Operations, Procurement Division, Room 1547-South Building, 14th & Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. 20250. (0009)

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