U.S. Department of Energy, Southwestern Power Administration, PO Box 1619, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101

D -- SCADA/EMS MAINTENANCE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SERVICES POC Contact Pauletta Johnson, Contract Specialist, 918/595-6660 or Joe Malinovsky, Contracting Officer, 918/595-6657 WEB: Southwestern Power Administration, http://www.swpa.gov. E-MAIL: Southwestern Power Administration, johnsonp@swpa.gov. This is not a notice for a solicitation. This announcement is for market research purposes. Southwestern Power Administration is requesting information from commercial sources regarding maintenance of commercially available hardware/software by Advanced Control Systems, Inc. (ACS). The hardware/software to be maintained is for the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition/Energy Management System (SCADA/EMS) and is located at Southwestern's Operations and Maintenance Center, Springfield, Missouri. The contractor will be required to provide upgrades, repair and modification services to both hardware and software due to failed components/systems or errors in the original software programming and improvements to the software. The SCADA/EMS is used to control and monitor the electric transmission system operated by Southwestern throughout much of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The SCADA/EMS supplied by ACS is a tightly integrated package of ACS and Hewlett Packard (HP) hardware and software. The system contains hardware and software components manufactured by ACS. ACS developed and furnished the complete integrated system to Southwestern. Sources offering hardware/software maintenance services must have a license agreement with ACS and HP. ACS has propritary rights. Responses from firms who believe they can provide the required maintenance services should include full technical documentation and descriptive literature on the vendor in such detail to enable the Government to confirm the submitter's capabilities for the maintenance services. Publicly available commercial pricing information is also requested in as much detail as possible. Any pricing information submitted that is not publicly available will not be utilized. Neither a draft statement of work nor specifications are available. No formal solicitation or contract will result from this synopsis for industry information. Southwestern will not pay for information provided in response to this synopsis. Based on information available at this time, the Government considers the required maintenance services to be a sole source and plans to enter into noncompetitive discussions with Advanced Controls Systems of Norcross, GA. The Contracting Officer plans to acquire the maintenance services pursuant to FAR 13.5-Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. Technical and commercial pricing information responding to this synopsis must be received within forty-five days after date of publication of this synopsis. See Numbered Note 22. (0174)

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