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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 25,1996 PSA#1644National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Managment,
Building 38A, Room B1n17, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 D -- ADP SERVICES DUE 080796 POC Liem T. Nguyen/Contract Specialist,
(301) 496-6546. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is exploring
means of attaining more rapid creation of bibliographic data for the
MEDLINE database. To that end, NLM intends to negotiate on a
sole-source basis pursuant to FAR 6.302-1 and 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1) with
the Imaging Systems Laboratory of the School of Computer Science for
a fixed-price type of purchase order for the creation of 4,000
bibliographic records using the ISL-CMU Feature Center Document
Conversion and Work Flow software. This unique software was developed
under contract with the Federal Image Documents Understanding
Laboratory for instrumenting end-to-end journal article conversion
where conventional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems
breakdown and to report opportunities for automating manual key-entry
operations. The Feature Center software supports OCR commercial
engines, the insertion of character, word, and phrase transformation
engines, insertion of specialized character and symbol recognition
components, insertion of very large specialized lexicons, insertion of
page segmentation and page component software, sensitivity to a
variety of journal fonts, multiple language character recognition,
including European and Asian languages, and integration with NLM's
MEDLARS input system. NLM requires that the instrumented work flow
results for the journal entries processed be provided to be published
in the open literature. No source other than ISL-CMU has the
technologies to address the multiple facets of automated creation of
MEDLINE bibliographic records in MEDLARS format in a single,
end-to-end, closely controlled instrumented environment. NLM has
determined that ISL-CMU is the only vendor capable of providing the
necessary services. This notice of intent is not a Request for
Quotations (RFQ), nor is an RFQ available. Award to ISL-CMU without
full and open competition is planned. This announcement erronously
appeared in the CBD on 07/15/96 under Classification Code 73. Numbered
Note 22 is not applicable. (0205) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0030 19960724\D-0005.SOL)
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