NASA, Procurement, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899

70 -- PAGE COMPOSITION ENGINE SOL RFQ JM96-PG DUE 010397 POC Jeff Marshall, USK-360, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 United Space Alliance, LLC (USA), a NASA prime contractor at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL, seeks sources capable of providing a Windows NT or IBM AIX server based page composition engine which will be integrated by USA into an existing application software system for the purpose of producing and printing SGML based documents in a client-server environment. The formal solicitation for this procurement will contain specific compatibility and tool set integration requirements as well as functional requirements. The page composition engine will be a part of a software application tool suite to be used by a minimum of 500 engineers (150 concurrent user sessions) to create, manage, and deliver the work instruction content of technical procedures. This tool will enable printing capabilities and functions necessary to produce the technical documents. The page composition engine must be able to compose and paginate ASCII data streams containing SGML tagged text, postscript based graphics, and bitmap image data in a client-server environment. The page composition engine must be able to automatically determine differences between specified versions of an input data stream and highlight the differences in a specified manner (e.g. change bars) as part of the output data stream. The engine must support both foreground (interactive) and background (batch) execution and multiple instances of the engine running concurrently. The engine must generate output in the form of a postscript print data stream and a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. This synopsis is for the sole purpose of identifying prospective sources and does not commit USA to make an award, nor to reimburse costs of submitting data. Indications of interest should be forwarded to reach USA no later than 010397 and should contain data, in duplicate, of company capabilities, experience in this or related fields, an such other data as may indicate a bona fide capability to perform the requirements set forth above. Address: United Space Alliance, LLC, 1100 Lockheed Way, Titusville, FL 32780, Attn: Jeff Marshall, Mail Code USK-360. Questions may be submitted via FAX at (407) 867-7068. Office will be closed, however, from 122196 thru 010197, inclusive.***** (0353)

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