Commander & Director, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, ATTN: CEWES-CT-C, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199

70 -- SAS SYSTEM SOFTWARE POC Point of Contact, Ruth C. Little 601-634-2420 The USAE Waterways Experiment Station (WES) proposes to award a contract to SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, under authority of 40 U.S.C. 759(g), as amended, for the SAS System software. The contract will be for the base year with four additional option years. Currently, there are approximately 100 PC users. This software is needed for performing statistical analysis of data in a variety of forms and outputting data in report format. The software must be supported on the DOS, Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Macintosh and UNIX operating system platforms. WES has used SAS since the 1970's in various capacities and applications and over the years has built voluminous historical databases and procedure programs. The software must be capable of reading data values in virtually any form, both internal and external to the software, and then arrange the values into a data set. The data sets must contain not only the data values but the description of the values as well. The software must perform standard operations such as modifying data by creating new variables, accumulating totals and checking for errors. The software must have the ability to write data in almost any form allowing the user to design and produce printed reports from the results. Descriptive statistics should be available including averages and standard deviations and be capable of producing data in bar charts, pie charts and plots, both two- and three- dimensional. Also, production and analysis of contingency tables should be available and data should be able to be ranked and standardized. The software must have tools capable of combining values and observations from a number of data sets. The software should have independent modules which can add tools which may be selected by the individual user for the user's specific application. The modules available should include capabilities for performing advanced statistical analysis procedures, interactive applications, menu-driven facilities for data entry, editing, retrieval of files and text processing, development of executive type summaries, graphics which are device intelligent and can be used in business and research applications, interactive graphics and analysis using multiple windows, performance of time series modeling, forecasting, operations research, mathematical programming, statistical quality control, and experimental design, interactive tools for data exploration and analysis, full-featured spreadsheet and an interactive matrix facility for performing advanced mathematical, engineering and statistical needs. The foregoing described software is the only known commercial software directly compatible with WES requirements. Any other statistical analysis software package would have to be able to utilize SAS data files and programs while maintaining data integrity. Any inquiries should be received within fifteen days from the date of publication. (0093)

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