EPA, ADP Placement Section (3803F), 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460-0001

70 -- SAS SOFTWARE SOL SAS SOFTWARE DUE 080597 POC Ben Fulton, 202-260-6213 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to negotiate a sole source contract with SAS Institute, Cary, NC. The anticipated contract will contain a base period and six one-year option periods totaling eighty four months and will contain provisions for the renewal and acquisition of new SAS licenses for additional SAS components or future additions to the existing EPA's computing hardware base. EPA's requires an Agency-wide multi-platform license for SAS source-code-compatible software. EPA currently uses SAS software for its data access, management, statistical and graphical analysis requirements. Currently, EPA has 25 SAS software products (e.g., BASE SAS, SAS GRAPH, FSP, IML, AF, OR, ETS, SHARE, AccADABAS, INSIGHT, AccS2000, CALC, C, EIS, and Assist ) installed on various platforms such as IBM 9021-9x2 OS/390 mainframe, DEC VAX, HP, SUN, and IBM Unix, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and Macintosh. EPA has a number of mission-critical applications which rely on SAS code and a substantial amount of mission-critical data in SAS format. SAS software is the established Agency-standard software for EPA's data analysis requirements, and EPA does not use any other software for its advanced statistical analysis and data management requirements. EPA requires SAS source-code-compatible software which can be run off all of the above platforms and provide the following functionality: 1) serves as an integrated tool for complex statistical analysis, interactive applications development, menu-driven user interfaces, multi-platform financial analysis, client/server processing, development of executive information systems, full-screen data entry, editing, and querying, and color graphics capabilities; 2) provides flexible tools for reading data in non-standard input formats; 3) includes interfaces to various DBMS software used in the EPA including DB2, ORACLE, and System 2000; 4) provides a comprehensive programming language and supports the use of other 3GL and 4GL programs; 5) provides for the portability of applications developed on one platform to all other platforms listed above, without significant modification; 6) provides Internet/intranet access from commercial WWW browsers to EPA data residing on all platforms listed above; 7) provides the ability for remote WWW users to use EPA-SAS applications using commercial WWW browsers; 8) must be commercially available off-the-shelf product with extensive documentation, technical support and established nationwide training curriculum. EPA is not aware of any SAS-source-code compatible software offering equivalent functionality that will allow EPA to use and build upon the extensive set of mission-critical data and applications residing on the various platforms listed above. Therefore, EPA intends to make a sole-source award to SAS Institute. Interested vendors who have SAS-source-code-compatible software that meets the functional requirements stated above must submit documentation supporting their claimed capability. Vendors' response shall include information on proposedproduct(s) including literature, brochures, and other documentation which clearly supports the product's ability to meet each of the requirements stated above. The intent of this sources sought synopsis is to determine if any other source(s) exist, therefore, no RFP is available. Consequently, any responses failing to provide the aforementioned data but instead choosing to merely submit their routine letter requesting a copy of the RFP will be ignored. Written responses must be received on or before August 5, 1997. Responses shall be submitted to: EPA, Bid/Proposal Room, Attention: Ben Fulton (3803F), 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460. Vendors written response must reference SAS Software. See Numbered Note 22. (0197)

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