Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg, WV 26101-5312

70 -- IBM COBOL/370 SOFTWARE POC Point of Contact, Wayne Jeffers, 304/480-6529, Contracting Officer, Cynthia Z. Springer, 304/480-6465 Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to acquire, on a sole-source basis through IBM Corporation the following FIP software and maintenance thereon for a systems life through September 30, 1997, for operation on an Amdahl 5990 Model 700 (with future upgrades to Model 1400), running with MVS/ESA, VTAM, JES2, and CA-ACF-2: SAA AS/Cycle COBOL/370 and SAA AS/Cycle Language Environment/370 (LE/370). Software offered shall be compatible with the hardware and software environment specified above and shall possess the following salient characteristics: COBOL/370 shall support Virtual Storage Constraint Relief (VSCR), 31-bit addressing; provide migration support that allows development of new programs or selective conversion to occur while using existing OS/VS COBOL II; provide support for reentrant object code; feature support for COBOL standards and the SAA Common Programming Interface for COBOL; provide structured programming support; and feature enhanced subsystem support (CICS, IMS) and interactive debugging capabilities. LE/370 shall share and reuse code; provide callable functions and subroutines; manage storage dynamically; share common runtime services through a common calling interface for C/370, COBOL/370, and PL/I for MVS; perform date and time calculations; and have an extensive set of math services. All affirmative responses must be in writing, must be accompanied by sufficient documentation to clearly show compatibility and compliance to all the above requirements, and must be received within 15 calendar days of this notice. No solicitation document is available. If no affirmative written response is received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable item(s)/services is/are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these items/services through the current contractor, a sole-source award will be made. (0068)

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