Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, 200 Third Street, Room 207, Parkersburg, WV 26101-5312

70 -- SOFTWARE AND MAINTENANCE POC Point of Contact, Kimberly I. Hedrick, 304/480-6950, Contracting Officer, Tammie S. Johnson, 304/480-6529 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt, Division of Procurement, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. The Bureau of the Public Debt intends to negotiate a sole source procurement with BMC Software, P.O Box 2002, Sugar Land, Texas 77487, to acquire the maintenance including new releases and upgrades for the BMC proprietary software for a systems life through September 30, 2001. Public Debt requires maintenance and upgrades for the following software which is currently installed on an Amdahl 5995 Model 2570M mainframe computer: DB2 Check Utility (Check Plus for DB2), R+/Resource Maximizer Utility for DB2, Extended Buffer Manager for DB2, and Reorg Plus Online Feature. A copy of the functional requirements is available on our Internet page http://www.public debt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm In addition to the maintenance on an AMDAHL 5995 Model 2570M, the Government may require an upgrade and maintenance on a AMDAHL 5995 Model 3570M. The Bureau of the Public Debt has been and continues to develop and implement the Savings Bond Replacement (SaBRe) project. Given the magnitude of the project and incurred costs,Public Debt is unable to consider new products until the project has stabilized. At this point, there are approximately 4.8 billion records that reside in a 1.2 Tb table and approximately 2,000 jobs maintained with the BMC utilities for the SaBRe system. Since developing the SaBRe system is an ongoing process, programmers must be able to continuously update the files. There are additional systems, Federal Financial System (FFS), Management Information Systems (MIS), and Batching and Encoding System for Issues (BESI), which consist of approximately 106 additional jobs. The backup and recovery process takes approximately 8 work days. Any additional down time is unacceptable. All affirmative responses must be in writing, must be accompanied by clear and convincing evidence to clearly show compatibility in an MVS/ESA integrated environment as well as conforming to the functional requirements outlined on our website. In addition to technical literature, respondents must submit references and pricing information. Other than the functional requirements on our website, no solicitation document is available. A request for documentation will not be considered an affirmative response. If no affirmation written response is received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable items(s)/services is/are available, and that it is more advantageous to the Government than obtaining these items/services through a sole-source contract with BMC, a sole-source acquisition award will be made. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. (0117)

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