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U -- LOTUS NOTES TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS SOL M67400-96-R-A010 DUE 081296. Contact: C. E. King, 011-81-6117-45-1504 or 3974; FAX 011-81-988-93-6024/Contracting Officer: R. S. Slater. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This solicitation M67400-96-R-A010 is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 90-37. This acquisition is for Instructional Training for Lotus Notes. CLIN 0001 - Lotus Notes 4.0 Applications Development II, 15 Students. CLIN 0002 - Lotus Notes 4.0 Applications Development III, 15 Students, CLIN 0003 - Lotus Notes System Administration I, 15 Students. CLIN 0004 - Lotus Notes System Administration II, 15 Students. The contractor shall provide the above training courses for the Marine Corps Base, Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan. The Contractor's offer shall include all cost for student tuition, the shipping of all course materials to and from Okinawa, Japan, room, board and all travel expenses to and from Okinawa, Japan for each instructor. The Contractor will not be responsible for the items indicated as Government furnished. The contractor shall provide all required training and lab software, student handouts, student manuals, instructor manuals for each course and a certification document for each student upon completion of each course. The Contractor's instructors shall meet or exceed the following criteria: the instructors shall be a certified Lotus Notes instructor, or shall have been certified by an authorized Lotus Notes Educational Training Center and possess a valid, current certification document; must read, write and peak fluent English; must possess a thorough working knowledge of the required courses. The Lotus Notes Application Development II course shall include: training in creating and finalizing a Lotus Notes database; training in database level security; training in data entry enhancements and interdatabase connectivity within application; training in automating workflow in an application; and training in enhancing form design, computed subforms and subforms. The Lotus Notes 4.0 Applications Development III course shall include: training in designing and developing an enterprise-wide Lotus Notes application; training in selectively distributing and replicating information; training in reading and writing data to external database systems; training in reporting on multiple Lotus Notes databases; training in setting up security rights for enterprise-wide agents; training in recording application activity in a log; and training in troubleshooting an enterprise-wide multiple-product application. The Lotus Notes 4.0 System Administration I Course shall include: training in troubleshooting mail routing problems; training in configuring, managing and switching between traditional Lotus Notes mail and single copy object store mail; training in scheduling and maintaining replication of databases, including the use of multiple replicators and pass through; training in troubleshooting and resolving replication conflicts; training in planning and implementing security in a Lotus Notes network, including certification authentication, passwords, server access, levels of database access and encryption; training in installing and configuring a first server, additional servers, and workstations in a Lotus Notes network; training in troubleshooting installation problems; and training in performing basic server administration tasks, such as backing up and restoring files, fixing database indexes, and using console commands. The Lotus Notes 4.0 System Administration II course shall include: training in create server statistics collection; training in interpreting alarms and statistics logs; training in assigning database limits and quotas; training in performing database analysis; training in creating a cross certification process; training in separating a single domain into multiple domains and creating non-adjacent domains; training in creating mail routing and replication across domains; training in merging two domains into one; training in creating foreign gateways; and training in setting up an InterNotes server. The Government will make available the following: a classroom with 16 computers, all 486/50 or greater with 8 MB of RAM or greater, VGA monitor, DOS, Windows 3.11 or greater. All PC's will be able to run Ethernet or Token ring; 1 server with 32MB RAM, minimum 1 GB hard drive, Banyan Vines Ver 5.54(20), MNet, PCPrint, PCDialin, LAN Server to Server, WAN Server to Server, Mail, IM3, and Vines Assistant: 1 Server with 32MB RAM, Minimum 1 GB hard drive, windows NT 3.51 server software for lab use; whiteboard and overhead projector; invitational orders to allow access to Camp Foster, and the Post Exchange; and provide daily transportation to and from the billeting location to the designated class. All courses are required to be performed during the period covering September 10, 1996 through September 27, 1996. The actual date and time for each course will be agreed upon by the Contracting Officer's Representative and the Contractor after contract award. All courses will be performed at the A/CS G-6, MCB Camp Smedley. D. Butler, Bldg 5715, Camp Foster, Unit 35001, Okinawa, Japan. Acceptance of completed courses will be made at this location upon completion of the assigned course date. FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items (Oct 1995), applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items (Oct 1995), applies to this acquisition. The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation and is the most advantageous offer to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factors, listed in descending order of importance, will be used to evaluate offers: (1) Technical Expertise. Offeror shall submit the educational background/level, years of teaching experience and certifications and credentials of each instructor. Each instructor shall be a certified Lotus Notes instructor, have at the time of award at least 2 years of in-classroom instructional time. (2) price. The evaluation of this factor shall be based on comparison to costs of any known recent procurements of the same or similar items by this or other commands; comparison of prices obtained on this solicitation; and comparison to catalog prices. Past Performance. Offeror shall submit the following information concerning similar services furnished during the past two (2) years: Name, address, telephone number, point of contact, total dollar amount of contracts or orders from Federal, States, Local Government agencies or private companies in which the offeror has performed similar services. In addition, the offeror may provide information on problems encountered while performing those contracts or orders and the offerors' corrective action used to resolved those problems. The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract with discussions, therefore, offerors are encourage to submit their best offer from a cost or price standpoint. The offeror is required to submit a completed copy of the provision at FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications - Commercial Items (Oct 1995), with its offer. FAR Clause 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items (Oct 1995) applies to this acquisition. FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders - Commercial Items is incorporated in this solicitation. The following additional clauses apply to this acquisition: FAR 52.203-6, Restrictions on Subcontractors Sales to the Government, with Alternate I (41 U.S.C. 253g and 10 U.S.C. 2402); FAR 52.203-10, Price or Fee Adjustment for Illegal or Improper Activity (41 U.S.C. 423); FAR 52.222-35, Affirmative Action for Special Disabled and Vietnam Era Veterans (38 U.S.C, 4212); FAR 52.222-37, Employment Reports on Special Disabled Veterans and Veterans of the Vietnam Era (38 U.S.C. 41212). Closing date will be August 12, 1996 at 1500 hours, Japan Standard Time. For additional information, contact GySgt. C King at 011-81-6117-45-1504 or FAX 011-81-988-93-6024. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. (207)

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