Contracts Competency, Bldg. 588, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670-5304

70 -- INDEXING AND IMAGING CD-ROM SUPPORT SYSTEM SOL N00421-95-R-5032 DUE 093095 POC Maryellen Ammons, Contract Specialist, (301) 342-1844 x172, Lois Cooksey, Contracting Officer, (301) 342-1844 x179. The Informtion Management Department at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River Maryland has a requirement for an Indexing and Imaging Support System. The Indexing support consists of: 1) Worldwide Standards Network and 2) Military Specifications and Standards, both for 20 simultaneous users. The Imaging support consists of the following: 1) American Society for Testing and Materials including ATCC, 2) Institute of Electronics Engineers, 3) American Society of Mechnical Engineers, 4) Aeronautical Radar Incorporated, 5) Quality/Measurements/Safety/Testing Environment, 6) Ansi-American National Standard Institute, 7) American Society for Quality Control, 8) Electronic Industries Association, 9) Aerospace Industries Association and National Aerospace Standards, 10) Acoustical Society of America, 11) Society of Automotive Engineers and Underwriters Laboratories, 12) Military Specification Network, 13) Naval Instructions and Directives with DoD Directives, 14) DoD Adopted Industry Standards, 15) Building Products File-Vendor Catalogs, 16) Historical Military Specifications and H Series; all for 10 users each. Additionally, the Imaging support must include: 1) Hot Spec. 7 Day Update, 2) LAN/one optical server installation, and 3) custom LAN optical server installation. The projected service time consists of a base year and two option years (for 10 additional users for each item), with two options for each year to add 10 additional users for each item. With respect to the Imaging support, the Military and DoD Index Services must include the following: search capability to find Active and Historical Military documents of Mil and Fed Specs and Standards and Qpl's, Mil Handbooks, MS drawings and ANA AN drawings, CID's Naval Instructions and Directives, NASA documents (KSC, MFSC, NHB), and FIPs and DoD adopted industry standards. This system must include the ability to search by keyword in Title, Scope, Intended Use paragraph, and Keywords assigned by the preparing activity and complete document outline; search by FSC; include a comprehensive table of contents for all primary and subparagraph headings of all active Mil and Fed Standardization documents; provide reports that provide a document summary with a ''revision in progress'' notice and responsible preparing activity; provide an outline for each document in the index to allow the user to enter a document at the desired paragraph; include title and revision date application documents referenced; provide references to Navy instructions and DoD directives with a complete revision history; and enable the user to research over 4000 DoD adopted industry standards including ANSI, ASTM, IEEE, UL, SAE, and NFPA. The following salient characteristics apply to the Imaging support: all raster scanned images shall be at 300 dpi's; images must be viewable on a VGA monitor; the system must be capable of printing the images at 300 dpi's; all NGS Commercial Standards must be licensed by the issuing Society to allow printing of the desired actual standard in hardcopy; the service must be updated at least every 60 days; the military and DoD documents must be compatible with Industry Standards Service; all indexes must be able to be integrated into the existing network and be able to function with LAN CD redirector software; and all services must be compatible with Microsoft extensions. In sum, the system must provide integrated indices and full text images of active and historical MIL Specifications and Standards, applicable industry standards, federally adopted industry specifications and standards, and DoD directives. In doing so, this system must be compatible with existing network architecture and current hardware. The systems life for the network CD-ROM is estimated at five years. Additionally, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), as well as a resulting NAVAIRWARCENACDIV consolidation and general reorganization/program changes, may impact the Information Management Department's organizational alignment over the pre-award and post-award phases of this contract. Such changes will not affect the scope of the information services procured by this contract, although the organizational element supported may be reorganized, restructured, and/or renamed. Requests for copies of the solicitation must be sent to Ms. Maryellen Ammons, Code 2.6.2.1MA, Contracts Competency, MS-32, Bldg. 588, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304. Requests for copies of the solicitation should be received within 15 calendar days from the date of this notice publication. For inquiries, please contact Maryellen Ammons at (301)342-1844 x172. All responsible sources may submit a bid which shall be considered by the agency. (0236)

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