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70 -- THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DENVER SERVICE CENTER, TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER IS CONDUCTING A PILOT ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT AND IMAGING PROJECT. PILOT WILL CONSIST OF 30-50 USERS SOL RF12796-025 DUE 081596. POC PLEASE FAX REQUESTS @303/969-2795; Maria Munoz, 303/969-2730, Contract Specialist, James D. Clark, Contracting Officer. The National Park Service, Denver Service Center, Technical Information Center, is conducting a pilot electronic document and imaging project. The pilot will consist of thirty to fifty users. The pilot's purpose is the integration of electronic files and images (i.e., CADD files linked with the drawing image; GIS files linked with the map image; Wordperfect files linked with the document image), aerial photographs, slides, videos, color photographs, scanned documents including engineering drawings and the Technical Information Center's Informix (Online Engine/New Era) database of metadata for the published Park Service documents. Scanning equipment procured outside this scope of work will be procured and will need scanning software & integration with the rest of the project. Other technology necessary for this information delivery is already in place - the Internet, DOInet, park connectivity, and server software (Worldwide Web/Mosaic). The pilot should demonstrate that all new electronic files can be preserved and retrieved in a user friendly windows environment enabling the self delivery of information via a World Wide Web and/or Lotus Notes interface for the Networked user. Vendors will be asked to conduct a requirements assessment, build a design document, and one or more vendors will be selected for the pilot. The Denver Service Center has adopted the Windows NT network as their networking environment. The server(s) the pilot will run on will be HP Net Servers with NT operating systems. Vendors may bid on one or more of the following issues: (1) The imaging and viewing software for the various file formats used, including AutoCadd drawings, allowing for editing and redlining with a minimum of four colors, (2) The storage management of large GIS files, scanned images, and AutoCadd files, (3) Integration of all components and with the existing Informix database and Lotus Notes (the internal user interface), (4) The workflow of the drawings and documents from their prepublication origin to the archival Informix database. (5) The WWW interface for the general public. (6) The retrieval of the content of the data, ie OCR, ICR, or other. (7) Document management of the prepublication documents, must include mandatory metadata fields and check in & check out features. (8) Computer output to laser disk. (9) Scanning and driver software for Kodak scanner (or comparable). (10) Training on site staff in the care and maintenance of the installed system. (11) Replication of internal data to the public internet server. The winning bid(s) will be judged on retrieval time of the metadata, retrieval time of the scanned images and the original document files, cost, ability to deliver products within specified time frame, seamless integration with Informix New Era database and with Lotus Notes, efficiency of content retrieval including non-textual information, ie architectural details, ease of use, ease of administration, reliability of support, completeness of the design, ease of modifying applications, scalability to additional applications, ie data mining, integration with other internal databases, etc. Vendors will be supplied with scanned images for their test, documentation of the TIC Informix database, a conceptual report on Amoeba by Synetics Corp. All components of the pilot may not be awarded. This acquisition is solicited under full and open competition. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. To request a solicitation package please send a request via FAX to 303/969-2795. (169)

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