Dahlgren Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, VA 22448-5100

70 -- SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TOOL SOL N00178-96-R-4037 POC John R. Travers, (540)653-7621/D. G. Cooper. The Dahlgren Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, intends to procure multiple copies of a Software Configuration Management (SCM) System for a 250 user organization operating in a secure physical and computational environment. This system shall operate in a software development environment that features, a multi-year development and support lifecycle, a software development process similar to MIL-STD 2167A, parallel development of multiple deliverable products and product revisions and shared code, data and documentation components across products/revisions. The software development environment includes several programming languages such as C, C++, Fortran, and a variety of supporting documentation tools such as text editors and WordPerfect, resulting in a variety of machine readable objects which must be stored and managed. The existing networking and operational environment in which the SCM shall operate features TCP/IP-based networking, SUN workstations and Unix, SUNOS and Sun Solaris operating systems, Silicon Graphics Workstations and the IRIX 5.2 operating system, Cray Supercomputers and the UNICOS operating system, VAX clusters and the VMS operating system, command line interface user environments on VT 220 terminals, X Window, Motif, Open Look, 4DWM, MS-Windows, and Macintosh user environments, SQL-based relational database management systems where file repositories are currently held in the Unix, UNICOS, and VMS environments. This system is expected to be a suite of programs performing a variety of tasks that is seen by the user, a server piece that handles requests from the client and an underlying relational database management system operating in conjunction with the server. It is expected that the client and server pieces may be composed of plug-in units performing such tasks as workflow processing, software builds, file compression, SQL report generation, and text editing. It is further expected that customization of the SCM system will be performed utilizing a separate developers toolkit software application. The functionality of the SCM system is not to be limited to configuration management of software objects, but the storage and management of documents and the component parts of documents. The tool suite must perform metrics collection and reporting, object security and access control, workflow processing, program builds, problem and change proposal tracking, plus allow other software applications such as text editors, authoring tools and search and retrieval engines to be plugged in. It is understood that the system may be composed of a collection of original and third party software yet the successful offeror shall be primarily responsible for system performance. Copies of the system shall be delivered over a three year period with startup support, training, continuous technical software support services and system maintenance. Solicitation N00178-96-R-4037 will be issued on or about 23 August 1996. Requests for the solicitation may be requested in writing to Contracting Officer, Attn: S14A/S14B, Naval Surface Warfare Center, 17320 Dahlgren Road, Dahlgren, Virginia 22448-5100 or by Fax to (540)653-6810. Please identify your company's size status when requesting the solicitation. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. (0204)

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