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D -- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SOL 52ABNR-6-00113 DUE 090996 POC For further information, call Contract Specialist Karen Bruce at 206-526-6370. Fax number is 206-526-6025. This publication serves as notice of intent to procure, on a sole source basis, services required by Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory(PMEL) for software development for 1)Data Rescue/EPIC Data Sets focusing on Arctic and Fisheries Oceanography, 2)NOAA West Campus Network focusing on in-situ data, and 3)EPIC and TAO projects, Web Utilities and EPIC VMS Support focusing on maintenance and upgrading of existing utilities (AnyURL and cover), porting EPIC software from VAX/VMS to DEC ALPHA/Open VMS, and consulting and user support for EPIC utilities and software on the Web and on the DEC ALPHA. The Government intends to negotiate with MACROSTAFF as we believe this is the only company who has the unique and exceptional specialized expertise to produce these state-of-the-art software programs. Also, MACROSTAFF was instrumental in working on the original development of these software systems and have the in-house unique set of experience and abilities required for continuation of these projects in an expeditious and timely manner. All interested concerns who believe they can competitively and effectively provide these services must demonstrate experience in developing customized state-of-the art software to the special needs of projects and various data types. Specifically, 1) in-depth knowledge of the nature of Arctic and fisheries oceanography data sets, and experience in working with these data sets, as the data is located, collacted, collected and quality controlled, and expertise in development of theme pages and development of software for dynamically generated data plots and listing on the World Wide Web, 2) in-depth knowledge of PMEL's specialized software and databases for formatting, managing, analyzing and displaying oceanographic time series, data, including database access, input/output libraries, and routines for presentation of the data using PMEL's EPIC software, 3) in-depth knowledge of PMEL's specialized software utilities AnyURL and cover, and VMS software at a system level, along with familiarity of PMEL's EPIC software. Responses must be sent to the above address not later than 30 days after publication of this notice. The period of performance is anticipated to be one year, starting approximately October 1, 1996. This notice may represent the only official notice of such solicitation. See Note 22. (0219)

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