Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, Room 1541, FB#3, Washington, (Suitland, MD) DC 20233

70 -- GEOGRAPHIC DATA BASE UPDATES (GDBU) SOL 52-SOBC-7-00001 POC Jacqueline V. Wilson (301)457-1864 The Bureau of the Census (BOC) is updating its spatial data base, called TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing), through the use of readily available reference materials. The BOC desires to obtain digital spatial data sets that can be used to achieve this objective from independent sources. These data sets must contain updated street feature networks with associated attributes, including street feature names (multiple names where appropriate), address ranges, and the U.S. Postal Service 5-digit ZIP codes. In fulfilling this strategic planning objective and conducting this competitive procurement, the BOC will use a new streamlined acquisition process as described in the document entitled Department of Commerce Acquisition Process Case for Change (CONOPS), available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/doc/bpr/. The intent of this new process is to provide an improved acquisition environment which will benefit both the vendor community and the Government. As part of this process, the Geographic Data Base Updates Pilot Project Agreement, and the individual FAR deviations for this acquisition will be made available on the World Wide Web at http://www.conops.doc.gov/gdbu.html on or about December 20, 1996. In accordance with the new acquisition process, the Geographic Data Base Updates (GDBU) Pilot Project Agreement will serve as the solicitation document for this requirement. Interested parties must respond to the GDBU Project Agreement as specified. This procurement will be conducted electronically, however, if necessary a paper copy of the Project Agreement and the Department of Commerce Case for Change may be obtained by written request to the (GDBU) Pilot Project Team, ATTN: Jacqueline Wilson, Bureau of the Census, FB#3, Rm. 1541-3, Washington, DC 20233. Questions also may be submitted via E-mail to Jacqueline Wilson @ ccmail.census.gov. The solicitation number for this procurement is 52-SOBC-7-00001. (0331)

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