Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 243, Greenbelt, MD 20771

70 -- 70 -- NASA/GSFC INTENDS TO ENTER INTO A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT WITH IS IS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM FOR THE PURCHASE OF A SITE LICENSE TRAINING AND MAINTENANCE SOL RFP5-09968/037 POC Hasani Martin, Contract Specialist (301) 286-7467, Myron Kemerer, Contracting Officer, (301) 286-7244 NASA/GSFC intends to enter into a sole source contract with Isis Distributed System for the purchase of a site license, and related support. This acquisition will be implemented pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)-- only one responsible source. Isis Distributed System is located in Voorhess, N.J. The basic contract requirement includes: the purchase of a site license for 100 Isis software developer kit, one year of maintenance for the license, PSOS and Vxworks support; and manuals with the right to copy. The contract will also include four one year options which will include: site license software support, training, senior architect services, PSOS and Vxworks support. The Government has a requirement to support real time, fault tolerant, multicast capable data distribution over nominal Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This capability must be scalable to hundreds of message streams, megabits per second, and hundreds of destinations, dozens of sources. This capability shall run on UNIX hosts without modifications to the kernel. This capability shall require no modifications or protocol configurations in the underlying IP network. The ISIS Distributed Systems Software Developers Toolkit (SDK) provides a commercially available Application Programming Interface (API) that provides the capabilities listed above. The ISIS SDK requires no kernel modification or network modification. As a commercial, off the shelf API, interfaces are well defined and consistent across platforms and applications. ISIS Distributed System is the standard used by the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate, the Government has invested a significant amount of money in the ISIS Distributed System. The ISIS software site license being purchased is fully compatible with the existing software. Use of any other software would require additional development, training and software conversion cost. Extensive protocol development is required to implement a distributed system similar to this commercially available product, which satisfies the requirements stated above. An in house developed capability would also run a more significant risk of being incompatible with emerging standards. ISIS Distributed Systems is heavily involved with ongoing standardization of this capability and already is compatible and relies on existing standards to the extent they are deployed in UNIX and the Internet. There are no known firms which provide all of the real time, fault tolerant, multicast capable data distribution over nominal Internet Protocol (IP) requirements in a software toolkit interface. All responsible sources may respond to this synopsis by submitting a written narrative statement of capability, including detailed technological information and other technological literature, demonstrating the ability to meet the requirement. Also, submit any proposed cost which may be available. Responses must be submitted within 15 days of this notice to NASA/GSFC, Hasani Martin, Code 243, Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771. All such responses will be fully considered. See Numbered Note(s): 12, 22 Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm, and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/solicita. (0228)

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