Social Security Administration, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1710 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21207-0696

70 -- SOFTWARE POC Joanne Tarr Tel: 410-965-9474 REFERENCE JT418CBD. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is seeking vendors who can provide the software and support tools to transition the Agency into a paperless environment. SSA's primary goal of defining and implementing an enterprise-wide solution, with the context of document imaging and paperless processing, will be the framework for eliminating its reliance on paper records. SSA requires a unique scalable and distributed architecture that offers a mainframe enterprise-wide catalog with an Oracle work management database for this initiative and all further initiatives. The software capabilities must deal with high transaction processing and be able to scale to tens of thousands of users. The software components required must provide the following: 1) A mainframe-based enterprise-wide catalog (DB2) with an Oracle work management database; 2) Year 2000 compliance; 3) Current Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 certification and near term Microsoft BackOffice compliance; LAN-based COLD technology capableof operating on the NT platform; 4) 32-bit desktop API access for retrieval and administration; 5) Common ODMS to allow both COLD and image data to be housed on the same optical platters; 6) Capability for a COLD item to be an object in the workstep process; 7) Point and click OCR technology; 8) Client Application Programming Interface must provide for the integration of imaging and workflow software with legacy or newly introduced applications; 9) Workload balancing across multiple servers within a domain and distributed workflow /backup /archive /scan capability, such that the loss of any server does not impact the ability of any client in the system to perform on-going work; 10) Support of symmetrical multi-processors (SMP); 11) Support of multiple domains across Wide Area Networks and Local Area Networks; 12) Transfer of work items from one domain to another; 13) API tools and OLE automation, and Ability to perform on a remote workstation utilizing COTS fetch ahead (server-based) asynchronous workflow. The solution must provide a two-tiered hierarchy using an enterprise catalog, an index that manages work items which may be distributed across multiple servers and systems. Documents and images are stored on local servers and a central catalog keeps an enterprise-wide directory of all documents and images. All authorized users within the network must have availability to locate any document in the system. Update methods must support both allowing for an immediate index to be written to the central catalog making the data available to the entire enterprise, or allowing for documents to be written to the central catalog as they are archived. The incorporation of central index functionality is an essential component of this requirement. To better promote security, provide better throughput and to eliminate the need for file mapping, the product must enable distributed and/or centralized scanning and archival of documents and work items as well as provide distributed and/or centralized back-up capability. The product must leverage the Microsoft Windows and BackOffice environments, as well as SSA's suite of systems management, data base and networking products and provide for easy installation and management capability in a distributed organization. The software product must be "User Friendly" and provide business managers the ability to graphically design workflows, as well as to allow workflows to be defined by technical staff. SSA also anticipates that an estimated 500 hours of technical support for the proposed software will be required. This support will involve resolution of problems and issues that may arise, and will be both remote and on-site at SSA headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland. Interested GSA schedule and non-schedule vendors who can furnish the required software and support are invited to submit in writing (NO FAXES) a substantial statement clearly demonstrating that the capability of the product offered meets the referenced requirements. Responses to this announcement must clearly state, and be substantiated by the submission of technical literature and other applicable descriptive literature, the ability to provide the required software and support. If any products and/or support are covered by a GSA Schedule contract, a copy of the contract, and/or the GSA Schedule number should be provided. Any questions or clarifications concerning this announcement and the requirements herein must be submitted in writing. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP), and the Government does not intend to pay for the information solicited or received. Respondents will not be notified of the results of any evaluation of the source data received. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. Interested parties must respond to this notice in writing within 15 calendar days from the date of this publication. ALL RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MUST REFERENCE JT418CBD. (0106)

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