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70 -- AUTOMATED COLLECTIONS INFORMATION SYSTEM (CIS) SOL 9736SOL0007 POC Melissa D. Howard, Contract Specialist, (202) 287-3238. The Smithsonian Institution is seeking proposals for a single ADP firm to provide an off-the-shelf, automated Collections Information System (CIS) that will be separately implemented in each of the Smithsonian's six art museums, which together house over 280,000 works of art (five of the museums are located on or near the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the sixth museum is in New York City). The general functionality the Smithsonian art museums require in a CIS are: 1) At a minimum, the application must support cataloguing, object tracking, inventory control, loan management, acquisitions, and exhibition management, all of which are museum functions; 2) At a minimum, the application must provide data entry, editing, authority control, search, and retrieval, all of which are system functions; 3) The application must have security features to control access to information by password, user group, record, function, and field; 4) The application must have some flexibility in it's "look and feel" permitting museum variations in entry screens, headings, field order, help, and local fields; 5) The application must be capable of integrating images into it's screen displays; 6) The application must have graphical user interface with standard navigational features like menus, function keys, and commands; 7) The application must have an easy to use, powerful report writer; and 8) The application must support the export of data to other systems. The Smithsonian art museums require a non-proprietary solution that runs in a Novell 3.X or 4.X environment and utilizes the installed base o IBM-compatible PCs at the 486 or higher level as well as a smaller number of MacIntosh computers. It is important to note that the proposed system must not be based on the Mac System 7 operating system. Offerors are requested to recommend an appropriate server for each of the six museums that takes into account each of the museum's data requirements and existing hardware, and network configurations. The successful Offeror will be responsible for procuring and installing new hardware (server) and software. Copies of the Solicitation No. 9736SOL0007 are available upon written request mailed or faxed to Smithsonian Institution, Office of Contracting & Property Management, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Suite P-114, Washington, D.C., 20027, Attention: Melissa D. Howard (Fax No. 202-287-2008). Firms desiring to be considered for this requirement will be required to submit Business/Cost and Technical proposals which will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria stipulated in the solicitation. (0337)

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