Department of Veterans Affairs (381), Austin Automation Center, 1615 E. Woodward St., Austin, TX 78772

D -- SOFTWARE LICENSE RENEWAL SOL 200-23-99 DUE 051399 POC William Cox (512)326-6241 E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer via, william.cox@mail.va.gov. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Automation Center, Austin, Texas, intends to negotiate sole source with Computer Associates International, Inc., Federal Division, Reston Executive Center, Building 3, 12120 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 22090, for the renewal of a license/maintenance of Computer Associates (CA) software products supporting its OS/390 Enterprise Server and other distributed client/server platforms and for the acquisition of new enterprise wide licenses for all CA software products to support either its OS/390 Enterprise Server platform or other distributed client/server platforms in a franchise fund pilot program environment. The period of performance of any resultant contract will be for one base year with five renewal years. The statutory authority for other than full and open competition is 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Companies who can provide CA proprietary software products as indicated above must indicate their interest in writing and provide written evidence of third party agreements from the intended contractor owning the proprietary source codes within 7 calendar days of this advertisement. Response must include documentation in sufficient detail to allow for the evaluation of supplies/services. No solicitation document is available and requests for such will be considered non-responsive. Oral communications are not acceptable. Facsimile number is (512) 326-6028. All responses from responsible sources will be considered. The Contracting Officer may determine that a solicitation will be issued because of analyzing responses to this synopsis of intent. If a solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Any such solicitation will be issued to the intended contractor and all firms that respond to this synopsis of intent. Determination to open competition based on responses received is solely within the discretion of the Government. The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)Code is 7372. FAR Part 12 will apply to this procurement. Posted 05/06/99 (W-SN328457). (0126)

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