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70 -- GENERAL PURPOSE AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (INCLUDING FIREWARE), SOFTWARE, SUPPLIES, AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT SOL IA-2102-S6234659-Z TEAM DUE 041596 POC Contracting Officer: Elliott Gilmore, 202-205-5414 The USIA International Broadcasting Bureau, Voice of America (VOA), has a requirement for an office automation multilingual word processing software application that is required by the Bureau's broadcast language services in order to prepare multilingual radio scripts and other broadcast-related multilingual texts. The scope of the proposed contract encompasses the porting of an existing multilingual product to the Solaris 2.X operating system, including SunOS and the multivendor Common Desktop Environment (CDE), for three hardware architectures (Intelx86, SPARC, PowerPC), related documentation, licensing and, four (4) one year options for maintenance of the resultant software product for a period not to exceed five (5) years. The multilingual word processing software to be delivered under this contract must support the following languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Creole, Croatian, Czech, Dari, English, Estonian, Falsi, French, Georgian, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese. The multilingual software application to be ported by the Contractor will replace proprietary application software that executes under a proprietary operating system and windowing environment on proprietary hardware that is no longer manufactured. The purpose of the proposed contract is to permit the Government to execute a smooth transition to a multilingual software application that executes in an open systems environment on a variety of industry-standard hardware platforms, prior to September 30, 1997. Because of this, the Contractor must demonstrate that he is able to provide a final production release of subject software by May 1, 1997. USIA intends to issue a solicitation document (RFP) for this negotiated firm-fixed-price procurement by March 1996 with a proposal response date of April 1996. Qualified manufacturers of multilingual word processing software may request a copy of the RFP/Solicitation by submitting a written request, (or faxed request -- FAX NO. 202-205-5466), to the USIA Contracting Officer at the above-listed address. All questions regarding this proposed solicitation must be submitted by fax or in writing to the USIA Contracting Officer within 10 days after issue date of the subject RFP. All responsible sources may submit a proposal in response to the forthcoming solicitation document, and all proposals shall be considered by the Agency. This notice is not a RFP. (0060)

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