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

70 -- INTEGRATION SERVICES SOL FERC96-RFP-60199 POC Steven Shapiro (202)219-1154 The Records and Information Management System RIMS is a document management, storage and retrieval system used by FERC in support of its mission. The current system is a hybrid of two systems, RIMS II and RIMS III. RIMS II is a micrographic document storage and retrieval system employing a computer assisted retrieval (CAR) capability to locate and facilitate the retrieval of requested documents stored on microforms. RIMS III is a document imaging system that allows a RIMS user (from a desktop, LAN) connected PC) to:interface to the RIMS II index for identification of a RIMS document, then hot key to: view the document page images on screen, and/or print some or all of the pages to a LAN printer or a high speed printer. The RIMS III hardware (HW) and software (SW) environments include an IBM RS/6000 Model 990 data base server running AIX and Informix On Line SW, and Netware LAN'd IBM compatible MS Windows PC clients running Recognition's Plexus SW, application code, and Attachmate XTRA! 3270 emulation SW. The FERC will implement an optical storage capability using already purchased HW (4 ATG Model 9001 optical drives and 1 Cygnet Jukebox Model 1802) and SW (Recognition's Plexus Storage Manager and Informix's On Line Optical). Use of this HW/SW will allow FERC's image data base to expand to 300 GB before additional storage space is needed. Due to the limited scope and well defined nature of the optical storage requirements, FERC sees the full and open procurement of a fixed price contract for services to integrate optical storage into the RIMS III application. (0312)

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