Sandia National Laboratories, Attn: James Eanes, MS 0218, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0218

70 -- VALUE ADDED NETWORK SERVICES POC Della LeMire, phone no. (505) 845-0238 or by fax at (505) 844-0613. SNL is one of the nation's largest and most diverse research and development laboratories. Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, manages and operates SNL for the United States Department of Energy. Sandia's mission is to provide scientific and engineering solutions to meet national needs in nuclear weapons and related defense systems, energy security, and environmental integrity, and to address emerging national challenges for both government and industry. Sandia is also developing a manufacturing role as it assumes increasing production responsibilities for non-nuclear components. Sandia National Laboratories is involved in an effort to, where cost effective, more rapidly toward a paperless procurement process that substantially reduces manual intervention and unnecessary and-offs in order to significantly reduce cycle time and costs. Our objectives are to exchange procurement information such as solicitations, offers, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, payments, and other contractual documents electronically between our suppliers and Sandia to the maximum extent practical. To meet this objective we are seeking Value Added Network Services that meet the following requirements: 1) Communications Functions a) Do you support electronic store and retrieve mailboxing? b) Do you provide active Store and Forward transmission services? 2) Communication Protocols a) Do you support common asynchronous and synchronous protocols including X.25 and X.400? b) Do you support half duplex and full duplex transmission? c) Do you support multiple transmission speeds? What speeds? 3) How do you provide network status monitoring? Describe how you accommodate each of the following: a) Confirmation of each transmission b) Daily summary of transactions c) Error determination and resolution d) Error and edit checking 4) How do you provide Reliability and Security? Describe how you accommodate each of the following: a) Backup and recovery facilities? b) Data security features? 5) Do you provide gateways to other VANs? Which VANs? 6) What are your hours of service (e.g., 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, 7 day a week service)? 7) Do you provide the following services: a) Implementation assistance? b) Training? c) Hot Line Support? What hours is support available? 8) What Audit Reports do you provide? Provide use with sample reports. 9) Authentication a) When we call your service how do we know we are talking to you? How do you know your are talking to us? b) Do you support electronic signatures? How? c) How do you provide protection against break-ins? 10) Data Integrity a) How do you maintain data integrity from the time we send data to you until data is received by the supplier? 11) Security a) Will you allow us to visit your sit to evaluate your security? b) Do you support encryption? If so, is it end-to-end? 12) Availability a) What are maximum and average timeframes required to transmit transactions? b) How often has your system been down for an hour or more in the last 6 months, last year? 13) What liability do you assume for data validity and timeliness? Describe your timestamping process. 14) Please provide a detailed description of your Quality Program including: a) Organization chart b) Mechanism for customer feedback c) Procedures to pre-empt, fix and prevent problems 15) Do you provide Compliance Testing for trading partners with transaction sets to be defined by Sandia? 16) What other value-added services do you provide? 17) What administrative procedures do you provide to facilitate adding and removing trading partners in a timely manner. 18) Do you provide Message Broadcasting and Screening? 19) Do you provide a trading partner marketing program designed to assist trading partner connection. 20) Do you provide automatic out-dial capabilities. 21) Please provide three references. Interested suppliers of Value Added Network Services are invited to furnish five (5) copies of a written response to this notice to Sandia within thirty (20) calendar days from the date of this CBD notice. The response should include a description of the supplier's ability to meet the needs discussed above as well as providing information on: Supplementary information that the supplier may wish to provide could include user documentation, price lists, manuals, periodical articles, and other product evaluations. Any information furnished should not be company sensitive or proprietary. Submit all documents to Sandia National Laboratories, Attn: Della LeMire, MS 0204, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0204. (061)

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