U.S. Department of Commerce, Acquisition Services, 14th & Constitution Ave., N.W., Room H-6517, Washington, D.C. 20230

D -- SOFTWARE LICENSE POC Howard G. Price -- 202/482-4185 The U. S. Department of Commerce on behalf of STAT-USA plans to acquire on an indefinite quantity, indefinite delivery basis single user license(s) for a CD-ROM version of the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) that is based on the Inquery information retrieval engine. The user interface software is a computer program stored on CD-ROM and executable under MS-DOS and MS- Windows operating systems. The user interface must be closely integrated witht he document storage and indexing software used by STAT-USA called Inquery. Inquery is a licensed product of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). STAT-USA uses version 2.1 as its document extraction engine for its Internet information service and will use the engine on its CD- ROM as well. STAT-USA is currently participating in a research project with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to convert the Inquery engine to a form suitable for CD-ROM use. Auto- Graphics, Inc as a member is currently adapting its commercial CD-ROM user interface for use with the Inquery information retrival engine. Because Auto-Graphics, Inc. has exclusive rights to the user interface resulting from this research work, the Department of Commerce intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Auto-Graphics, Inc. The period of performance will be for twenty-four months. Interested parties are invited to identify their interest and capability to respond to this requirement by submitting supportive documentation. This documentation must clearly demonstrate the ability to provide the required license and support described herein as well as other information and data sufficient for their ability to satisfy this requirement. If no affirmative written documentation is received within 15 calendar days after publication of this synopsis to the effect that a compatible source is more advantageous to the Government, the government will being negotiations with Auto- Graphics, Inc. Requests for copies of an RFP pertaining to this notice will not be honored. (0242)

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