CLOIS HARDWARE & SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE The Virginia Contacting Activity on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), intends to award a sole source Firm-Fixed Price follow-on contract to Maxcess Corporation for hardware and software maintenance service for the Classified Library Online Information System (CLOIS). Maxcess Corporation was awarded the original competed contract and developed from the specifications the architecture which included certain customized conversion and retrieval capabilities for the classified documents. Maxcess Corporation is the only company with proprietary rights to the CLOIS software codes. If any source is capable of satisfying this requirement, you are invited to submit clear and convincing data substantiating your capability to satisfy this requirement. All responses should reference PR 439/0023Z/00. Interested parties have 15 days from the publication date of this synopsis to submit their qualifications/capabilities. Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a full and open competition basis. Responses received without the requested information may be considered non-responsive to this synopsis. Oral communications are not acceptable. A determination by the Virginia Contracting Activity not to compete this proposed procurement on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this synopsis is solely within the discretion of the Virginia Contracting Activity. Please indicate business size. The Contract Specialist is Joan Willard at (202) 231-2824. Posted 10/19/99 (W-SN393077).

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