Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport Commercial Acquisition Department, Code 09, Building 11, Newport, RI 02841-5407

J -- INTENT TO MODIFY AN EXISTING GSA ORDER TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE POC Contact John Perry, (401) 841-2442 X285 or Walter Oliver, Contracting Officer at (401) 841-2442 X281 The Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division intends to modify an existing GSA order, N66604-94-F-D316 with Digital Equipment Corporation, to extend the Period of Performance by 865 hours for on-site software engineering services. The software engineering services will support the wide range of Digital Equipment Corp., software products currently being utilized in the VAXcluster Computer Operations. The software engineer shall perform on-site analysis and design, coding, testing, debugging, performance tuning, error analysis and correction, software upgrades and maintenance of large scale projects to support the system software environment on VAXcluster computer systems located in Newport, RI. The Period of Performance shall be from 01 APR 1995 TO 30SEP 1995. The Primary Period of Performance shall be from 0800 to 1700 Monday thru Friday. The Contractor shall provide on-site back-up coverage, if requested by the Government, for the software engineer during time of extended absence from work as for vacations or sick leave. The Software Engineer shall have completed at least one year of study beyond a Bachelor's Degree in areas of computer science, software engineering, or related technical subjects. The Software Engineer shall have at least ten years experience working in VAX/VMS software environment, seven years of work-related experience in designing and debugging large, complex Digital Control Language (DCL) programs and a knowledge of VAX assembly language programming (MACRO), obtained either by having completed a MACRO training class or one year related experience. The Software Engineer shall have a minimum of six years of work-related experience in VAX/VMS System Management of the following systems: VAX 11/785, VAX 8600, VAX 8800, VAX 8820 and VAX 7620. At least five of those years shall have been in C1- based VAXcluster environment with more than 1,000 users where management and performance of the VAXcluster was included as responsibilities. The Software Engineer shall vane a minimum of seven years experience with the following DEC proprietary software products: VMX, VMS MAIL, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, LSE, DECALS, DECPAGE, DECGRAPH, RDB, DTR, TDMS and DECNET. A minimum of five years experience with each of the following DEC proprietary software products: ALL-IN1, WPS-PLUS, TEAMDATA, and RALLY. A minimum of three years experience with each of the following DEC proprietary software products: CDD+, DMNS, DQS and DECREPORTER. A minimum of one year experience with each of the following DEC proprietary software products: DECPS, MOTIF, DECFORMS( MMS and DECTRACE. A minimum of four years experience with PATHWORKS including design and configuration of PATHWORKS networks, PATHWORKS internals and installation and management of the PATHWORKS software. A minimum of two years experience with DEC LAT protocol and DECSERVER terminal and print servers. All responsible sources are invited to identify their interest and capability to satisfy this requirement by submitting technical and cost data. Responses must be submitted with 15 days after date of publication of this notice and shall contain price quotations, as well as clear and convincing documentation indicating it is advantageous for the Government to consider sources other than the GSA schedule contract GS00K95AGS5674. A request for a copy of the solicitation document will not be considered an affirmative response to this notice. No solicitation document currently exists. If no affirmative written response is received within 15 days of publication of this notice, a modification to the GSA delivery order identified above (N66604- 94-F-D316) will be issued. All responses from responsible sources will be considered. As a result of analyzing responses to this synopsis of intent, the Contracting Officer may determine that a solicitation will be issued. If a solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Any such solicitation will be issued to the intended schedule vendor and all firms that responded to this synopsis of intent. (0065)

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