SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Request for Information About Commercially Available Calendaring Software
- Notice Date
- 11/8/2004
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-05-184-RFI-1
- Response Due
- 11/7/2004
- Archive Date
- 12/8/2004
- Point of Contact
- Joseph Widdup, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-6324, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
joseph.widdup@nist.gov
- Description
- THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI). IT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS. UNSOLICITED OFFERS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED IN RESPONSE TO THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) OR RESULTING FROM THIS RFI. The U. S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD is continuing to perform market research to determine what calendaring software products currently exist in the marketplace from various vendors that could provide enterprise-wide electronic calendaring capability for approximately 3,000 users in two different physical locations. This is the second RFI that is being released as part of that market research (the first RFI was released in November 2003). VENDORS OF ELECTRONIC CALENDARING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS ARE REQUESTED TO RESPOND IN WRITING TO THIS RFI BY EMAIL ONLY TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 7, 2004 AND TO SUBMIT RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING SEVEN (7) ITEMS: (1) Commercial literature that describes, in the most detail possible: (a) the name of the calendaring software product, its version number and, if applicable, its release number; (b) the name of the company that owns the copyright to the software product; and (c) general description of the technical capabilities of the software; (2) Indication of whether the calendaring software may be purchased as a stand-alone software product or whether it must be purchased as a “bundle” that includes other software products for which licenses must also be purchased (if other software products are bundled with it, then also provide the information requested in (1) above about those other products, as well); (3) For the aforementioned software product(s) (calendaring and, if applicable, other products with which it is only sold as a bundle), indication of whether they may be configured to work with Qualcomm Eudora email software, which is NIST’s current email software; (4) Indication of the minimum number of users and the maximum number of users for each product for which information is being provided; (5) Commercial list price information (NOT SPECIFIC OFFER PRICING) for each product for which information is being provided, to include, as applicable, commercial list pricing based on number of users, commercial list pricing based on what platform on which it is deployed; and commercial list pricing based on any other factors; (6) Indication of whether the calendaring software (and, if applicable, its other bundled product(s)) for which information is provided are currently available for ordering through any GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Contracts and/or any Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACS) and, if so, the contract numbers and for those contracts; and (7) A completed version of the table at: ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/cal/NIST_Calendaring_Req_01Nov2004.doc , with all of the information at the top of the template completed and all of the blocks in the table completed. PLEASE PROVIDE RESPONSES TO (1) THROUGH (7) ABOVE IN .PDF FORMAT, .DOC FORMAT AND/OR .XLS FORMAT BY EMAIL ONLY TO JOSEPH.WIDDUP@NIST.GOV SO THAT IT IS RECEIVED AT THAT EMAIL ADDRESS NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 7, 2004. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (08-NOV-2004); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/DOC/NIST/AcAsD/Reference-Number-05-184-RFI-1/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00705648-F 20041110/041108212033 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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