National Imagery and Mapping Agency, PCU/D-88, 4600 Sangamore Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-5003

70 -- CD-R DUPLICATOR SOL NMA201-98-R-0023 DUE 030398 POC Contracting Officer, Jeannie Kampschroeder or Contract Specialist, Linda Grasso, (301) 227-2158, FAX (301) 227-2218 This announcement is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in subpart FAR 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation. PROPOSALS ARE BEING REQUESTED AND A WRITTEN SOLICITATION WILL NOT BE ISSUED. The solicitation number is NMA201-98-R-0023 and this solicitation is issued as a request for proposal (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 97-02. This is a total small business set-aside. The Standard Industrial Classification Code is 5045 and the business size is 500 employees. The National Imagery and Mapping Agency wishes to procure a system, one line item, CLIN 0001, that allows for the duplication of multiple CDRs. This system must duplicate 20 CDRs at once and/or copy multiple images to multiple CDR's simultaneously (example: 20 different images to 20 differenct CD-R drives andburn them independently all at the same time). This should be a RAID configured system with at least two complete sets of hard drives. The two hard drives (at least 6 GB RAID) shall be configured with the operating system on each set. This hotswappable drive configuration shall allow the user to remove multiple levels of sensitive information from the machine by taking the drive out of the system for greater security. The system must be Y2000 compliant. The system must be capable of recording a disc in any standard CD-ROM format including: Red Book, Yellow Book, White Book, Orange Book II, Blue Book, ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, ISO 13490 and Hybrid. The system shall meet, at a minimum, the following specifications: Modular Case; Pentium 200Mhz or greater; 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive; 2 -- Hotswappable power supplies; Keyboard and Mouse; 24x CD ROM Drive; 7 to 14 GB Exabyte tape drive w/8mm tape; 128 MB RAM; 20 -- 4X CDR Drives; 2 MB VRAM; 17" SVGA Monitor; Jaz Drive; Ethernet Card; 2 -- hotswappable AV rated 6 GB RAID hard Drive arrays or greater; Windows NT 4.0 operating system; duplication software; one year warranty on parts and labor, tech support included. Delivery is expected to be FOB destination to NIMA, 3200 South Second Street, St. Louis, MO, 30 days after award of contract (AOC). The provision at 52.212-1, Instruction for Offerors-Commercial Items, applies to this acquisition. Interested parties shall submit offerors which include the 11 items outlined in FAR 52.212-1(b). The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract without discussions with offerors. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussion if later determined by the Contracting Officer to be necessary. Provision at 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial items, is hereby incorporated by reference. The Government intends to award a contract to the responsible offeror, whose past performance is acceptable, whose offer conforms to the solicitation to satisfy the Government's need, and whose offer will be most advantageous to the Government cost or price considered. Offerors are to include a complete copy of the provision at 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items, with offer. In accordance with provision at 252.204-7001, Cage Code Reporting, Offeror is to provide CAGE code with offer. The offer is to include offeror's 9-digit Data Universal Numbering System (DUNNS) number. The clause at 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, is hereby incorporated by reference. The clause at 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Order-Commercial Items, is hereby incorporated by reference (including: 52.222-3; 52.233-3; 52.222-26; 52.222-35; 52.222-36; 52.222-37; 52.222-47). The following DFARS clauses are hereby incorporated by reference: 252.225-7001; 252.227-7015 Offers are to be delivered to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency address listed above, ATTN: Linda Grasso, no later than 3 March 1998, 3:00 P.M., local time. The offeror agrees to hold the prices in its offer firm for 30 calendar days from the date specified for receipt of offers. (0037)

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