Under Secretary, Idp, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janpath, New Delhi-110001, Fax: 91-11-381139, Tel: 91-11-381139, Telex: 031-63443 Ignc in

99 -- INDIA: SOL TENDER N0.7/9/95-SD/IDP DUE 062095 7379 computer software/services the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (ignca), an autonomous trust, with assistance from undp, has undertaken a project to strengthen the National facility for interactive multimedia (imm) documentation of cultural resources ignca has the mandate to develop State of the art, cultural documentation/presentation tools and is the nodal agency to prescribe technical standards under central and State governments to store, retrieve and disseminate data on Arts, humanities and cultural heritage to exploit computer based mm techniques, a networked mm multi-platform laboratory will be established an ambitious archival project will create a digital library of thousands of ancient manuscripts, over 70,000 slides, over 10,000 sounds and 2,000 video recordings and over 2,50,000 papers of text graphic users interface (gui) will allow query of manuscripts for research another project will integrate key multimedia and graphic technologies such as hypertext, 3D modelling and walk-throughs to create a framework to explore an ancient heritage site cd rom presentations are envisaged ignca has invited international bids for the supply of following goods a) media server cum high performance 3D graphics station (1 M/s - 4 M/s textured shaded triangles) B) front-end nodes for multimedia walk-through = 3 nos C) window based multimedia nodes - 4 nos D) macro based multimedia work nodes - 2 nos e) image and video graphics nodes F) heavy duty color scanner G) slides scanner - 1 no H) a4 paper scanners - 4 nos heavy duty/industrial I) film recorder - 1 no J) cd writers - 3 nos K) Mac note book L) windows note book M) 3D scanner - other peripherals new Delhi they are available from the office of the system specialist, undp project, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, no 3, dr. Rajendra prasad road, new Delhi 110001, on payment of dols 250 through demand draft in favor of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, payable at new Delhi Post contact/prepared by opgupta Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Section (FCS TOP), American Embassy, New Delhi, Dept of State, Washington DC 20521 9000, Refer to TOO1O.. (0121)

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