National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Attn: PCO-E MS D-5, 4600 Sangamore Road, Bethesda, MD 20816-5003

76 -- DIGITAL NAUTICAL CHARTS SOL NMA30197P0300 DUE 081597 POC Contact Ken Popkin, Contracting Officer, 301-227-1904, FAX 301-227-4793 The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) intends to issue multiple Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQs) contracts for the generation and maintenance of Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) libraries. Performance requires digitizing/scanning of litho or film separates which are converted into topologically structured vector data, tagged with feature and attributed information, transformed to geographic referencing schemes, edge matched, and separated into tiles. Maintenance will require updating of libraries from hardcopy and/or softcopy GFI. A DNC library has filed data covering both contiguous and non contiguous areas in one of four chart scale bands: namely, Harbor, Approach, Coastal, and General. This effort encompasses NIMA's full inventory of nautical charts. Contractors will be required to prepare and deliver a final product on a 2.4 Exabyte Magnetic Tape in accordance with Military Standards for Vector Product Format. Requests for this solicitation must be made in writing. All reponsiveand responsible offerors will be considered. No telephone requests will be accepted. See Note 23. (0177)

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