U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, ATTN: CSSD-CM-CN, PO Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801/106 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-1990

A -- COMMAND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CIMS), OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENTS POC Deborah Teague, Contract Specialist, CSSD-CM-CN/Linda N. Bentley, Contracting Officer, (205) 955-1187 The U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command (USASSDC) has a requirement for operation and maintenance, as well as development, implementation and integration of technology enhancements to its Command Information Management System (CIMS). The CIMS is the total enterprise network of Automated Information Systems (AIS) supporting the USASSDC. The major components of the current CIMS architecture include, but are not limited to: 1) the unclassified USASSDC enterprise network; 2) the CIMS Oracle database management system used for managing USASSDC costs, schedules, budgets, personnel, etc.; 3) the USASSDC classified network(s); 4) the CIMS-Library systems; 5) the Special Purpose Automated systems to include Internet and Intranet Web Sites; 6) the command standard IBM compatible personal computers (PC) supporting office automation applications and providing users access to the networks to include a limited number of special use Apple Macintosh computers with an Ethernet interface; and 7) the CIMS Help Desk providing day-to-day assistance to all CIMS users of all AIS equipment and services provided by the CIMS. The contractor is required to provide: 1) computer operations, hardware, and software maintenance for the existing CIMS; 2) acquire and integrate new hardware, software; 3) upgrade software applications for the existing CIMS; and 4) develop new software applications for existing and new hardware and software components, to include the new Defense Message System. The contractor must have professional experience in the operations, applications of software development, and maintenance of commercial off the shelf products to include: Novell Netware, Windows NT Server, Open-VMS, UNIX and UNIX derivatives; TCP/IP, Apple Talk, Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle Developer 2000, INTERSOLV PVCS Version Manager, INTERSOLV PVCS Tracker, Oracle SQL*NET Client Software, Oracle Discover 2000, HTML editors, JAVA, ActiveX server controls and search engine, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft VisualC++, Microsoft Visual Basic, the EZ-Imaging Scanner Library by ISIS, Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 97, Windows NT Workstation, the electronic FormFlow system, Microsoft Office Professional, etc. The period of performance of this effort is potentially seven years. This includes a three year basic effort with two contract options, providing a two year period of performance for each option. The acquisition is not open to Allied Participation. This sources sought announcement is not a solicitation for proposals; however, any firm competent to perform the effort described above should submit their written qualification statements to CSSD-CM-CN, Deborah V. Teague, at the address above, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. Qualification statements shall reference DASG60-97-0020 and shall not exceed five (5) pages. No telephone responses will be accepted. This announcement is for informational purposes and is not a formal solicitation for proposals. Firms responding to this notice should indicate whether they are a large, small, or small and disadvantaged business. SIC Code 7379 is applicable. (0041)

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