U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Contracts Management Division (MD-33), Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

D -- MAINTENANCE FOR SYSTEM AND DASD MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE PACKAGES SOL P0045 POC Teresa A. Ward,Contract Specialist,919/541-2311. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intends to negotiate sole source with Technologic Software Concepts, 16852 Von Karman Bldg., 450, Irvine, CA 92714, for continued software maintenance services subject to availability of FY-96 funds. The software is installed on the Agency's IBM 9X2 CPU. The maintenance services for the software listed below includes usage rights, enhancements, correction of errors and omissions, and all updates necessary for synchronization to changes in the IBM hardware and operating system software. The Agency's requirement for maintenance support is for the following software: CARTS-TS Site License Maintenance, and CART-TS Round to Direct (Period of Performance: November 23, 1995 through November 22, 1996); MultiTSO, and Network Access (Period of Performance: January 28, 1996 through January 27, 1997). EPA believes that Technologic Software Concepts is the only vendor capable of satisfying the software maintenance requirements stated above. No solicitation is available. All interested parties must respond within 15 days of the date of this announcement. Interested vendors shall: 1) include information on the proposed services which clearly supports the requirements outlined above and; 2) provide itemized pricing that is sufficient to make a determination that competition is feasible. Response to this synopsis must be in writing. Submit response to the U.S. EPA, Attention: Teresa A. Ward (MD-33), Contracts Management Division, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. No telephonic or faxed requests will be honored (0206)

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