Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696 Attn:1-E-4 GWNO/Joanne Tarr

70 -- SYSTEMS SOFTWARE LICENSE AND SUPPORT POC Joanne Tarr tel: (410) 965-9474 The Social Security Administartion is seeking to identify vendors that can provide two system licenses, installation and 5-year maintenance/ support cost for an Information Builders, Inc. middleware product, Enterprise Data Access/SQl (EDA/SQL) or an ''off-the-shelf'' equivalent product. The functional requirements are as follows: Functional Requirements for EDA/SQL or its ''off-the-shelf'' equivalent: 1) The software must be able to access a wide variety of data bases on multiple platforms in the current SSA client/server environment involving local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). The product must provide full-function transparent database access to the mainframe or LAN database server using a GUI front-end. 2) The software must support the current SSA client server network architecture. The software must support access to the following databases on the mainframe: IDMS, FOCUS, VSAM, and QSAM. The software must support the following software on the client workstation: Microsoft C/C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, POWERBUILDER, ENFIN, and FOCUS/EIS. The software must support the following communications and platforms: IBM TOKEN RING network protocol, NOVELL NETWARE 3.X, TCP/IP, LU2.0 (3270 SNA), LU 6.2 (peer-to-peer), Windows 3.0 or later, IBM OS/2 2.1 and higher, IBM mainframe MVS XA and MVS/ESA. The software must support the following PC/LAN databases: PC/FOCUS, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, dBase, WATCOM, and PARADOX. 3) The software must be capable of running on a client workstation with the following characteristics; 386/486 microprocessor, 16MB RAM, Windows 3.x, DOS 5.x and 250 MB hard disk. 4) The software must be capable of running against a LAN database server with the following characteristics: 386/486 microprocessor, 24MB RAM, 1GB hard disk, and OS/2 operating system. 5) The software must provide security or interface to mainframe security software, including TOP SECRET. The user must be able to log into the software with a single user-id without having to repeat the login against each data source. 6) The software must allow the application to be insulated from the specific database manipulation languages and from the specifics of the underlying communications between platforms and databases. 7) The software must interface with Microsoft C/C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, FOCUS/EIS to provide access to remote databases. 8) The product must be able to send a user-developed SQL command to a remote database server for execution in its unaltered form. 9) The product must allow the mainframe to act as a client and access databases that reside on a remote LAN. 10) The product must be able to perform updates to remote databases. 11) The product must support asynchronuous processing to take advantage of overlapping operations to reduce potential bottlenecks. 12) The software must provide a facility to allow the operation of the product to be monitored or traced throughout the enviornment. 13) The product must provide compression/decompression to reduce the size of the data traffic on the network or I/O channels. 14) The product must interface to desktop tools including Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Excel, and WorkPerfect. 15) The product must have a proven record of success. 16) The vendor shall provide two copies of documentation, written in a straight-forward manner for installation, operation and maintenance of the product. The software will be installed on an IBM 3090 and an Amdahl 5990, located at SSA's National Computer Center in Baltimore, MD. Vendors capable of providing the software products with the above characteristics are invited to submit in writing, complete information, product descriptions, pricing, brochures, and GSA schedules (if applicable) about their product. The responses must clearly state the ability to provide the necessary product; two systems licenses within 30 days of any resulting contract action. In addition, responses should also include details regarding training users in the use of the offered software product. Interested parties must respond to this notice in writing within 15 calendar days from the date of this publication. PLEASE REFER TO EDA/SQL.JT. This is a request for product information only, not a Request for Proposal (RFP). No contract award will be made on the basis of responses received; however, this information will be used in SSA's assessment of capable sources. The Government does not intend to pay for information received. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. (0040)

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