Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Procurement Operations Branch, MS2510, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 22070-4817

D -- OIL AND GAS GEOLOGICAL/GEOPHYSICAL/GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM SERVICES. Sol 3780. Contact Point, Jenny Taylor, 703/787-1354, or Contracting Officer, Sandra McLaughlin, 703/787-1354. The United States Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS), intends to acquire Federal information processing, (FIP) services from QC Data, Inc., to be negotiated on a sole-source basis. Under the anticipated contract, the MMS will acquire digital curve data through the firm's database at QC Data's Houston, Texas facility. QC Data will also acquire digital and hard-copy well logs for newly-drilled wells in the Gulf of Mexico, validate and correct errors, digitize hardcopy logs, convert digital well logs to MMS-specified formats, and store these records in proprietary and public databases. The firm wll also store datasets at offsite storage facilities. A digital well log library will be established, allowing multiple user access to logs, providing the capability to convert selected historical logs to digital data, providing necessary hardware and software to facilitate public release of logs, and providing a direct interface with MMS' Technical Information Management System (TIMS) database and sophisticated Geological interpretive tools (GIT) systems. QC Data, Inc. is considered to be in a unique position to provide MMS these specific services based on: (1) possession of the largest known commercial Digital Well Log Databank of its kind with quality assured data for over 17,000 Outer Continental Shelf Gulf of Mexico wells; (2) in-house conversion and other software developed exclusively to meet the needs of petroleum-related documents; (3) current and historical technical experience in operating a geoscience data utility for the Canadian oil and gas industry, including operational systems to handle well-log submissions, and, (4) current participation by almost all operators in the Gulf of Mexico in existing projects in place under the Offshore Gulf of Mexico Geological/Geophysical/Geographical Information System (OGGIS). Oral communications will be neither accepted nor honoed. Written communications must adhere to the terms of the numbered note cited below. Justified under 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1). See Numbered Note 22. (083)

Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0033 19950329\D-0001.SOL)