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D -- SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE ACQUISITION (SDM) SOL 52-PBPT-6-00001 DUE 122995 POC Joe Shehade, Contract Specialist, 703-305-4176, James H. Murphy, Contracting Officer, 703-305-4176 The Department of Commerce, United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of the Chief Information Officer has a requirement for System Development and Maintenance (SDM) services. The requirement is to provide skilled staff, managerial and technical resources, tools, and other resources necessary to analyze, design, develop, deploy, maintain, modify, reengineer, and enhance multiple PTO automated information systems. The services needed include business process reengineering, information engineering, system design and analysis, programming, testing, customer training, implementation, operations transition, system/software maintenance, project-specific system/software engineering, product assurance, project management, and other related services and products. The requirement includes acquisition of software applications or products and incidental hardware for system life cycle support of development, maintenance, and enhancement activities. It is anticipated that a Cost-Plus-Award Fee task order contract will be awarded. The annual anticipated level of effort is 600,000 hours. The PTO expects to award up to two contracts as a result of this competition for 300,000 hours for each effort. The PTO intends to issue a contract with a basic period of performance for one (1) year with seven (7) one year options for renewal. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be issued on January 2, 1996. A presolicitation conference is not contemplated. Interested parties can obtain copies by several methods. OFFICIAL HARD COPIES: To obtain either an electronic copy using high density 3 1/2'' diskettes, or a paper copy, please submit a written request to the contracting office specifying your preference (Limit 1 copy of either diskette or paper). Requests may be faxed to the contracting office at 703-308-5042. UNOFFICIAL ELECTRONIC COPIES: An electronic copy of the solicitation will be available as follows: BBS-- The PTO bulletin board system is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except Tuesdays from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon for data loading, and as announced on the BBS formaintenance. Direct Access to the BBS by dialing (703)305-8950 (1200-9600 baud modem and related software should be set at 8 character bits, no parity, 1 start/stop bit). INTERNET and WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS -- An electronic copy can be viewed and/or downloaded via Internet (ftp to ftp.uspto.gov) or the World Wide Web Access (http://www.uspto.gov). All previous respondents to these requirements under Solicitation No. 52-PAPT-5-00051 for the draft RFP must resubmit a request for this solicitation package in order to receive the RFP. Previous requests will not be honored. For purposes of bidding, it is the vendor's responsibility to ensure that they obtain and respond to an official copy of the RFP. Official copies of the documents are available in paper or on diskette when requested from the Information Technology Contracts Office, either in writing or by completing the bidder's request form found in the PTO Internet Web Site. A CD-ROM of the publications listed in Section J.2 of the draft and final Solicitation can be obtained for $30.00 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Electronic Information Products, 2231 Crystal Drive, Crystal Park 3, Suite 441, Arlington, VA 22202, Telephone No.(703) 306-2600. Please specify that you want the System Development and Maintenance (SDM) RFP CD-ROM, and include your return mailing address and telephone number. Please pay by check or money order payable to the Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks, or the PTO deposit account to which you want it charged. Payment must accompany your order. Credit Cards and purchase orders will not be accepted. Updated Section J.2 documents will be provided on diskette at no additional charge to all vendors who have purchased or will purchase a CD-ROM. (0346)

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