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B -- FOLLOW ON TO NAIC CONTRACT F33657-90-C-0007 FOR MACHINE TR ANSLATION SOFTWARE AND DICTIONARIES POC H. Oeters, (513) 255-3273. The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) is presently contemplating a superseding, 5 year, single award, contract for continuing development of machine translation (MT) software and the expansion of dictionaries which are integral to the functioning of NAIC's Systran MT systems. NAIC has been developing, operating, and maintaining Systran MT systems since 1969. The Systran MT Systems are the only known MT systems that cover the wide range of systems of interest to NAIC and which employ the context-sensitive language analysis that is compatible with the NAIC's systems. In addition, Systran MT systems have been identified as the only Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) migration MT System by the DODIIS Migration Board. The successful contractor will be required to provide dictionary, linguistic, and systems modifications to be delivered as updated source and object-code software. Potential sources must provide the following in response to this announcement: (1) evidence of previous experience working with C and IBM Assembler languages, MVS, CMS, SunOS 4.x, and Solaris 2.x operating systems and using existing Systran MT System linguist macros, (2) identify key management personnel and senior linguists qualified in Russian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese languages, (3) evidence of prior experience in the development of MT systems, and (4) evidence of the capability to perform a minimum of 50 percent of the work levied by this contract in-house. Failure to demonstrate capability in any one of these areas may result in the offeror being denied consideration for this procurement. All respondents shall indicate whether they are large or small business in relation to SIC 7389, size standard $5.0M. The government reserves the option to set this acquisition aside for small business. All responses will be evaluated against the criteria listed in this announcement. Limit responses to 10 pages or less. Foreign participation on this contract is not authorized. Sources are requested to submit their responses within 30 days after publication of this announcement. An Ombudsman has been established for this acquisition. The only purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors, when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his concerns during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions, and voice concerns before resorting to use the Ombudsman. Potential offerors are invited to contact ASC's Ombudsman, Col Robert C. Helt (ASC/CY) Bldg 2041, 2511 L Street, WPAFB OH 45433-7303, at (513) 255-1427, with serious concerns only. Routine communication concerning this acquisition should be directed to ASC/PKGB Bldg 16, 2275 D St Ste 21, Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-7238, (513) 255-3273. (0038)

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