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70 -- COMPUTER EQUIPMENT RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION FOR NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DIV. OF COMPUTER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES, FEDCAC PROJECT 109 SOL KRF-96-009 DUE 043096 POC Ms. Mary E. Doherty, Contracting Officer, 617/860-7103 or Jeannine Lemay, Contract Specialist, 617/860-7121. FEDCAC plans to acquire Distributed Resources for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Distributed Resources is focused on NIH's requirements for support of distributed computing. This contract will provide NIH the resources necessary to acquire state-of-the-art distributed systems and related information technologies in a cost-efficient and technologically responsive manner in order to maintain the highest possible levels of support to the NIH users. This acquisition is also to acquire desktop application software, software maintenance, software program management for desktop applications and network equipment, network design installation and maintenance services. A firm-fixed-price, fixed-price with economic price adjustment for labor intensive items, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity type contract is planned. A five year total contract life is planned. A Request for Information (RFI), including a questionnaire, will be provided to industry approximately 15 calender days after publication of this notice. Vendors will have approximately 3 weeks to respond to the questionnaire. The Government will not formally respond to vendor comments or questions but may consider incorporating comments into revisions to the specification. Qualified firms are required to submit their request to be placed on the Distributed Resources source list in writing to the Contracting Officer indicated above. Sources responding to this notice shall indicate whether they are a large, small, disadvantaged or woman-owned business. For this synopsis, a business concern is considered small if the number of employees does not exceed 1,000. The Government will not distribute printed copies of the RFI. The RFI will be made available to industry through the Hanscom Electronic RFP Bulletin Board (HERBB). The HERBB can be accessed through a computer modem, 24 hours per day, by calling 617/377-1487. Use the standard settings of N-8-1 at any baud from 300 to 28.8 (v.34). The HERBB can also be accessed via the World Wide Web; the URL is http://herbb.hanscom.af.mil/. Help for the HERBB is available by calling Kristine Levine at 617/860-7122 of FEDCAC (0043)

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