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D -- SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE ACQUISITION (SDM) SOL 52-PAPT-5-00051 DUE 090195 POC Joseph Shehade, Contract Specialist, (703)305-4176, James H. Murphy, Contracting Officer, (703)305-4176 The Department of Commerce, United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of the Chief Information Officer, has a requirement to provide skilled staff, managerial and technical resources, tools, and other resources necessary to analyze, design, develop, deploy, maintain, modify, reengineer, and enhance PTO automated information systems that support all business functions. The services needed include business process reengineering, information engineering, system design and analysis, programming, testing, customer training (to include technical personnel), implementation, transition to operations, system/software maintenance, project-specific system/software engineering, product assurance, project management, and other related services and products. Software applications or products and incidental hardware are needed for system life cycle support of development, maintenance, and enhancement activities. The System Development and Maintenance (SDM) acquisition is an OFPP pilot project. As such, past performance is a substantive evaluation criteria. A Cost-Plus-Award-Fee Contract will be awarded to the responsible offeror whose proposal is most advantageous to the Government, considering price and other factors included in the solicitation. The Government expects to award approximately two contracts as a result of this competition. However, the Government is not obligated as a result of this solicitation to award any particular number of contracts beyond the initial award to that offer which represents the best value to the Government. It is anticipated that the draft solicitation will be made available o/a 8/1/95. A presolicitation or preproposal conference is not contemplated. However, PTO's Acquisition Management Division sets aside 1/2 hour sessions on Thursday afternoons, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., to conduct vendor discussions. To schedule a meeting, please contact the Acquisition Management Division secretary, Audrey Jackson, at (703) 305-9156 (no collect calls will be accepted). An electronic copy of the draft and final solicitations, amendments (if any), and bidders lists will be available as follows: BBS -- The PTO bulletin board system is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except for Tuesdays from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon for data loading, and as announced on the BBS for maintenance. Direct Access to the BBS by dialing (703) 305-8950 (1200-9600 baud modem and related software should be set at 8 character bits, no parity, 1 start/stop bit). To report problems, send an electronic mail message to the BBS Sysop. Since the draft solicitation is scheduled to be released on a Tuesday, an electronic copy of the document will not be available until the BBS comes back up. INTERNET and WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS -- An electronic copy can be viewed and/or downloaded via Internet (ftp to ftp.uspto.gov) or the World Wide Web (http://www.uspto.gov). DISKETTE -- To obtain an electronic copy using high density 3 1/2'' diskettes, please submit a written request. If a paper copy is required, please submit a written request. It is anticipated that, o/a September 1, 1995, a CD-ROM of the publications listed in section J.2 of the draft solicitation can be obtained for $30.00 from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Electronic Information Products and Services, Crystal Plaza 2, Room 9D30, Washington, D.C. 20231 Telephone: (703) 308-0322. Please specify that you want the System Development and Maintenance contract CD-ROM, and include your return mailing address and telephone number. Please pay by check or money order payable to the Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks, or the PTO deposit account to which you want it charged. Payment must accompany your order. Credit card and purchase orders will not be accepted. Questions concerning the draft solicitation should be submitted in writing accompanied by a diskette no later than 9/01/95. (0198)

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