Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, FOB #3, Room 1541, Washington,(Suitland, MD) DC 20233

D -- CASES SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES POC Jacqueline V. Wilson or Alba Sanchez, 301-457-1831 The Bureau of the Census intends to contract with the University of California, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-5100 under the authority of 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1). The anticipated term of the contract is three years consisting of a one-year base period and two additional one-year option periods. The contractor will provide software enhancement and maintenance services for the suite of software products that compose the Computer Assisted Survey Execution System (CASES). The CASES system is used by the Bureau of the Census to support large scale complex computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) surveys. The University of California exclusively maintains the CASES software suite and is the only source with legal rights to the CASES suite source code. As a result, the University of California is the only source that can provide the required support to the Bureau of the Census. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate only with the source identified herein. See Note 22. Posted 07/02/98. (0183)

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