Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Division of Procurement, 825 N. Capitol St. NE,Room 6406 Washington, DC 20426

R -- TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) intends to procure the services of RAAM Consultants to provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services to the Office of Hydro Power Licensing. The consultant will be required to provide 1,000 man hours of application development support to perform the following tasks; Process scanned aperatue card data into digital vector data; Translate TIGER, DLG, and DEM data; Provide support for digital image processing, image registration, translation of digital images to various raster file formats including CCIT-Group4, TIFF - Type G, continuous Tone COT; Provide C Language programming to transfer TIGER data, including labels, to DLG file format; Customize existing software and develop new software to facilitate scanning and display images in COT file format for use with Intergraph's ISI imager; Develop command tables for database import/export to facilitate the management of vector/raster images. Command tables are developed with Intergraph's MGE/MGA software; Develop software drivers for exporting data and digital images to various file formats for use on PC and Unix workstations; Customize the Microstation software design, and application to meet specific application development. This will include menu-drive systems to inputdata automatically and prepare seed files for different applications; Continually evaluate systems for possible technological upgrades. The consultant will be required to provide onsite technical support for software developmenta data translation, data base design, and applications development. In order to provide introductory and advanced support in the selected hardware and software, the consultant should be experiended and knowledgable in the following: HARDWARE-Intergraph 2730 Workstation; PC workstations using Intel-type processors; Tape 2.3GB Cart tape in PEM Box; Digitizer-Intergraph FTISI33 18X24; Eagle 3640 Clipper Scanner; HP 650C Plotter E/AO for Cliper. SOFTWARE - CLIX operating system for UNIX environment; Module Geographic Information System Enviornment (MGE) - Informix; Terrain Modeler-MSM; Image Station Imager-ISI; Map Finisher-MGFN; Plotting-IPLOT. The consultant should have the following minimum qualifications: Post-graduate degree in Geography, Remote sensing, or related field; extensive experience in software design and development; familiar with essentially all aspects of GIS technology; proven background with strong microstation Development Language (MDL) programming experience; Experience in use of UNIX-based workstations and support peripherals; Knowledg of CLIX system and MDL/C to use and write utilities to convert coordinate systems; Knowledge of mapping coordinates systems and map projections and the ability to convert from one project to another. All interested vendors offering indentical or equivalent services must identity their interest and fully document their technical capability to meet the agency's requirements by forwarding a detailed response within thirty (30) days of this notice. All requests must be in writing and include company name telephone, telephone number, GSA contract number if applicable and itemized prices. All response must be sent to the attention of Mary Anne Wright, Contract Specialist and reference OHL-95-0326. No telephone responses will be honored. All responses from responsible sources will be fully considered. As a result of analyzing responses to this synopsis of intent the Contracting Officer may determine that a solicitation will be issued. If a solicitation is issued, no additional synopsis will be published. Any such solicitation will be issued to the intended vendor and all firms that respond to this synopsos of intent or otherwise request a copy of this solicitation. If no affirmative written responses are received within thirty (30) calendar days after the publication of this synopsis to the effect that a comparable source is available, or is more advantageous to the Government than purchaing from the open market, a contract will be placed with RAAM Consultants. (0103)

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