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70 -- ANALYTICAL AND PROGRAMMING SUPPORT TO DEVELOP RETRIEVAL ENGINE SOFTWARE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CANCER INFORMATION CENTER (ICIC) SOL RFC-60031-NV DUE 041296 POC Debbie Moore, Purchasing Agent 301/402-4509, Trish Haun, Contracting Officer 301/402-4509. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), has a requirement for the development of a retrieval engine to sort and retrieve a number of different types of ICIC records, including: treatment statements, protocols, CANCERLIT, etc. The system needs to provide retrieval services for multiple types of client programs, accessing data through the World Wide Web, Fax, E- mail, and Telnet. In order to perform this work the contractor must show: 1) extensive knowledge of the PDQ and CANCERLIT databases, 2) good working knowledge of UNIX operating system, 3) knowledge of ORACLE Test Server 3, 4) a good working knowledge of the International data base structures of PDQ and CANCERLIT, 5) experience developing applications for World Wide Web, 6) extensive experience with ''C'' programming language and bibliographic data and computer applications, and 7) extensive experience understanding the internal representation of data in different compilers. The RFQ will be available on or about March 14, 1996, and written quotations, along with descriptive material showing organizations capabilities will be due on or about April 12, 1996. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the Agency. No collect calls will be accepted. See Numbered Note 1. (0057)

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