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70 -- UTILITY THAT WILL COMPRESS FILES ON WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION AND AUTOMATICALLY COPY TO NETWORK SOL 196P98012120303 DUE 032498 POC David Zelnick ( 703 ) 305-8068 E-MAIL: to see the Contracting Officer, david.zelnick@uspto.gov. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) anticipates an award of a sole source purchase order for the license and use of a utility that will compress files on user Windows NT workstations and automatically copy them to a network drive. This will enable that important data files will be backed up nightly. The utility was designed and developed by Centered Systems, 7137 Oak Ridge Road, Falls Church, Va. Centered Systems is the only known source who can provide the utility described above. The sole source award will be made pursuant to the authority of 41 U. S. C. 253 ( c ) ( 1 ). See note 22. (0076)

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