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70 -- COMPLEX INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND FIRMWARE COMPONENTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM AT THE BAYOU CHOCTAW SITE Sol DE-AC96-94PO19001 due 080796. Contact Geralyn Champagne, (504)734-4766; Contracting Officer, Joyce B. Francois, (504)734-4760. This requirement is for a complex integrated system made up of hardware, software, and firmware components for a Distributed Control System. All labor, materials, tools, and equipment necessary to perform all operations necessary for engineering, detailing, fabricating, inspecting, testing, documenting, and delivering the hardware, software, and firmware in accordance with the specifications will be required. The scope includes a requirement for equipment to be ``open architecture'' and capable of interfacing to networks and accepting standard advanced control system application programs such as simulators and trainers. The equipment will be installed (by others) at one additional Strategic Petroleum Reserve site located in Louisiana. It is the intent of the Government to modify an existing contract with Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Stafford, Texas, to satisfy this requirement. The authority under Competition In Contracting Act is Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. Responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered. See numbered Note 22. (169)

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