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D -- OVERSIGHT OF THE IMPAC/CRISP MIGRATION POC Valerie C. Pickett, Contracting Officer (301)496-4487 E-MAIL: Valerie Pickett, vp5v@nih.gov. The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate a 21 month h contract with the MITRETEK Systems to complete the third and final phase of the effort to redesign the IMPAC/CRISP systems to operate in a distributed relational database management environment. Activities under this project will include (1) project administration, including monitoring progress and providing oversight of development contractor activities, configuration management, and change control; (2) design and development activitie s, including monitoring of the technical system design, database security requirements, monitoring proof-of-concept and validation of the physical database and the detail applications design and interface design; (3) implementation activities, including evaluation of the data conversion loads, certification of the database and monitoring of training and documentation; (4) maintenance, production, and DBA activities, including system evaluation, planning and review and monitoring the proof-of-concept andva lidation of system security plans; (5) reinvention activities, including development of a transition plan, monitoring of the transition, and development of reinvention initiatives and model reinvention approaches, tracking of reinvention goals, evaluating reinvention initiatives, conducting benchmarking assessments and stakeholder assessments, and providing advice and assistance in transition planning. This action is being taken under the authority of 41 USC 253(c)(1) as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. The ser vices needed by the NIH are available from only MITRETEK and no other type of services will satisfy those needs. MITRETEK has performed the complete study of requirements for the new IMPAC/CRISP system, has developed the concept of operation, general functional system design, and procurement specifications for the new system, and will be involved with validating the concept of operations by simulating the anticipated system load using various hardware/software configurations. MITRETEK has gained a thorough understanding of the NIH s requirements for the new system and of the NIH user community that another contractor would not have. In addition, the awardee must be free from any real or perceived conflict of interest or any suspicion of such a conflict because it is prohibited by corporate policy and by contracts with government sponsors. The awardee must demonstrate that it is not influenced by potential subsequent production opportunities, business opportunities, or by current and previous business arrr angements. See numbered Note 22. (0090)

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