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

70 -- SOFTWARE DUE 061199 POC Point of Contact, Debra L. West, 304/480-6138, Contracting Officer, Susan Daugherty, 304/480-6951 WEB: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/oa/oaprocr.htm. E-MAIL: Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt,, procurement@bpd.treas.gov. Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to acquire, on a sole source basis from IBM, MQSERIES for OS/390 Version 2 Release 1 in 348 cartridge format with 50 user client licenses. All affirmative responses must be in writing, must be accompanied by sufficient documentation to clearly show equivalent functionality, and must be received within 15 calendar days of this notice. If no affirmative response is received within 15 days after publication of this notice, to the effect that comparable item(s) are available, and that it is more advantageous to the government than obtaining these items through the current contractor, a sole-source award will be made. Posted 05/27/99 (W-SN336613). (0147)

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