USDA, ARS, North Atlantic Area, Contracting Office, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038

63 -- PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICE FOR THE ROBERT-SHAW SECURITY AND MONITORING SYSTEMS POC Lisa M. Botella, Point of Contact (POC), (215) 233-6551, fax (215) 233-6558, Regina M. Herchak, Contracting Officer The USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), intends to negotiate solely with Control Systems Inc. in Hagerstown, MD to provide preventive maintenance service to be furnished F.O.B. Destination to the USDA, ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia. We will require the preventive maintenance service on an IBM OS/2 computer system, a Seibe Environmental Controls Facility Integrator, a Robert Shaw Security System, Control Panel and Digital Management System (DMS 350A), and a Fire-Lite Fire Alarm Monitoring System. These systems will monitor the security of the facility along with several growth chambers, cold rooms, fume hoods, the air-handling system, the ultra-low freezers, and the greenhouse heating and cooling systems. The system and software is currently linked to a Government-owned personal computer located in the maintenance staff's office and provides a printout of security activity and equipment failure. In addition, the systems are integrated with an alert notification system software which calls emergency personnel when there is equipment failure. Companies with the demonstrated capability to provide service for such equipment must submit a written substantive statement outlining the Company's and systems' capabilities to the P.O.C. within 15 days of publication of this notice. Faxed information will not be accepted. This is not a request for proposal. No solicitation is available. (0135)

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