Department of State, A/IM/RM/MFA, Room 200A, SA-15, Washington, DC 20522-1502

70 -- DOCUMENT CONVERSION SOFTWARE DUE 041797 POC Ms. Ronne A. Rogin, 703/875-4801 E-MAIL: Ronne Rogin, US Dept. of State, RoginR@immfawpoa.us-state.gov. Document Conversion Software. The Department of State (DoS) seeks information on COTS software packages that meet the functional requirements stated below. Vendors that can provide such software are requested to submit descriptive literature, in sufficient detail to allow the DoS to perform an adequate market survey. Please send information to contact person listed above (for hand deliveries, address is 1800 No. Kent St., Rosslyn, VA 22209) at above mailing address. The Department will review all information received. This is not a formal solicitation; any subsequent acquisition will be conducted in accordance with the applicalbe FAR requirements. Responses due not later than 30 days after publication date. Requirements: The U.S. DoS has a requirement to obtain information on COTS software that can covert documents that are attachments to electronic mail messages. A variety of word processing packages are used at the client PCs. The conversion package must be capable of producing a recognizable word processing document when the electronic mail message is received with a document attached to it. The document conversion package must contain the following characteristics: 1) Must operate on Microsoft (MS) Windows NT server versions 3.51 or 4.0; must reside on the server and process the document conversion on the server; 2)must be capable of interoperating with MS Exchange Server Enterprise Edition, version 5.0 and Wang VS Office version 2.50 using X.400 as the transport between Exchange and Wang VS Office; 3) Must convert documents into or out of MS Word versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 and into or out of Wang WP, Wang WP+, or Wang WITA formats with high fidelity and minimal data loss; 4) Must operate through an X.400 standards (GOSIP certified) MTA (Message Transfer Agent) and be able to analyze both 1984 and 1988 message envelopes to locate word processing objects to convert; 5) Must recognize the file or word processing format by the file's binary signature or by inspecting the file's contents; must not depend on filename extensions to recognize the file type; 6) Must support long filenames. In doing so, must be able to convert files with names longer than the format of "8.3" (8 characters separated by a dot,followed by 3 characters); and 7) the vendor shall provide information on its commercial offerings, including software licensing terms and conditions, pricing for licenses (including discounts offered, if any), installation costs and system requirements, maintenance offerings (i.e., updates and debugging) and associated costs, and training (i.e., how much training is required for a LAN administrator, does your firm offer such training, location, cost, etc.), and whether or not the product described is available on GSA Schedule, a Government-wide contract, etc. (0078)

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