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The U.S. Census Bureau is establishing a no-cost agreement with Intel Americas, Inc. for market research to evaluate the performance of SAS Software on the Intel Itanium 2 platform. Under this arrangement, the Census Bureau will provide a specific SAS program to be used in a series of tests involving various record sizes and quantities to measure processing speeds. Intel is responsible for providing the necessary hardware and software to execute these tests and will share the resulting data with the Bureau. While this specific notice does not result in a contract award, the Census Bureau is inviting other firms with similar or competing technologies to submit their capability and product information. Interested parties must send their documentation to Patti Becker within 30 days of the notice. The Bureau may choose to test these alternative technologies as part of its ongoing market research efforts.

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Census Bureau and Intel no-cost agreement to test SAS software on Itanium 2.

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541380 - Testing Laboratories and Services

Place of Performance

MD

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AgencyDepartment Of Commerce Census
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OfficeSUITLAND, MD, 20746, USA
Organization / AgencyDepartment Of Commerce Census
Office AddressSUITLAND, MD, 20746, USA
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The U.S. Census Bureau intends to enter into a no-cost agreement with Intel Americas, Inc. solely for market research purposes to test the performance of SAS Software on the Intel Itanium 2 platform. The BOC will provide Intel with a SAS program that will be used to run a series of tests with different record sizes and number of records to measure the length of time to complete the processing. Intel will provide the hardware and SAS software to run the test program. The results will be given to BOC. Firms who believe that they posses similar technology are invited to contact the Census Bureau regarding testing of new competing technologies. Interested firms should submit their capability and product information to the above address to the attention of Patti Becker within 30 days of this notice. No contract will be awarded as a result of this notice; however, the BOC may elect to test competing technologies.

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