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

70 -- SOFTWARE AND MAINTENANCE SOL TPD 95-C-0005 POC Point of Contact, Tammis S. Johnson, 304-480-6461, Contracting Officer, Wayne Jeffers, 304-480-6465. Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt intends to acquire, on a sole-source basis through SAS Institute, SAS Campus Drive, P.O. Box 8000, Cary, North Carolina, 27612-8000, FIP proprietary software and maintenance thereon as well as additional licenses for currently installed packages for a systems life through September 30, 2000. Public Debt currently maintains extensive databases written entirely in SAS code. SAS/EIS, SAS/GIS, SAS/ASSIST, SAS/ETS, and SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYBASE and SQL Server are required to allow development of various statistical and geographical reporting systems on both mainframe and PC-based platforms. All software packages must meet the following minimum requirements: The system must run under MVS/ESA on IBM compatible mainframes and on IBM compatible personal computers running DOS (5.0 and higher) and OS2 (2.0 and higher), Must be portable to multiple hardware/software platforms, Programs developed on any of these operating systems must execute on all platforms with no program changes, Datasets created on any supported system must be usable by programs developed on all supported systems, Must be capable of running in an interconnected mainframe/personal computer environment such that SAS programs developed on either machine can be executed on the other, at user's option, Provide personal computer software site license for a maximum of 50 users, Allow users to perform statistical analyses for proactive strategic planning, Allow development of a geographic information system for historical query and prediction of events, Provide forecasting tools, Integrate with SAS modules and allow users to create SAS code without actually writing code, and, Allow access to SQL Server. All affirmative responses must be in writing, must be accompanied by clear and convincing evidence to clearly show code-compatibility and compliance to the above software interfacing requirements, and include proof that each product will run on Public Debt's mainframe (AMDAHL 5990 Model 1400) and microcomputer systems without modification. Responses must be received witin 15 calendar days after publication of this notice. No solicitation document is available. A request for documentation will not be considered an affirmative response. If no affirmative written response is received, within 15 days after publication of this notice, a sole-source modification will be negotiated. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. The Government will not be responsible to pay any costs associated with preparing a response to this notice. (0347)

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