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58 -- NATO TENDER: NACISA - PROCUREMENT OF NORTH ATLANTIC COMMAND CONTROL INFORMATION SYSTEM (NACCIS) MARITIME CORE CAPABILITY (MCC) SOL IFB-7594-NAC DUE 072296. Contact Point: Alexis Kemper 202/482-1512. NACISA invites qualified U.S. firms to compete on the basis of NATO international competitive bidding for the acquisition of North Atlantic Command Control Information System (NACCIS) Maritime Core Capability (MCC) for all ACLANT commands. The provision of the MCC is to be achieved by the use of the existing, NATO owned software, called Baseline 1.0, which is incorporated in the existing SACLANT and IBERLANT CCIS. The scope of effort to be presented in the proposed IFB includes the procurement of hardware platform, the procurement of the Baseline 1.0 COTS packages for the selected hardware platform (i.e. the requirement is to ensure that the same COTS packages as currently employed in Baseline 1.0 are available in the baseline which functions on the selected hardware platform), the porting of Baseline 1.0 to be selected hardware platform, the installation of the small and medium configurations in the target commands, training and the provision of documentation. The principle porting effort will focus on integrating the procured COTS packages together with the US Government software package which will be ported to the Bidder selected hardware platform by the purchaser and provided to the Bidder as GFE, by revising the NATO owned code to reproduce the seamless capability on the selected platform. The scope of effort does not include and software development beyond that required to accomplish the software porting. The resulting contract will require procurement of hardware, porting of software, integration, installation and training. Interested firms should have NATO Secret clearance. All applicants must be certified to compete in NATO ICB by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Telecommunications. Submit all nominations requests to Alexis Kemper (fax: 202/482-5834) by COB 22 July 1996. (185)

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