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D -- EXPORT CONTROL AUTOMATED SUPPORT SYSTEMS (ECASS) SOL 50-DKEX-8-90078 POC P.L. Artis, Contract Specialist; Diane C. Husereau, Contracting Officer, 301-713-0829 The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration (BXA), intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Software Design Enterprises, Inc. to add a Database Management Specialist labor category to Contract No. 50-DKEX-8-90078. The purpose of the contract is to support BXA's control and enforcement processing missions and its imaging system called IMAGEne. The Export Control Automated Support Sytems (ECASS) is comprised of a Model 204 database management system (Ver. 3.1), an MVS Operating System, a TSO On-Line Communications Package, and the ACF2 Security Package. ECASS resides on a main-frame computer under a time-sharing arrangement at the DOC Springfield computer Center located in Springfield, Virginia which is linked to users at the Herbert C. Hoover Building via telecommunications lines and modems. A password identification system is used to identify and screen all ECASS users. The government requires a Database Management Specialist with knowledge of U.S. export control regulations specifically relating to high performance computers, knowledge of BXA organizational units, familiarity with M204 programming language, and the ability to download information from a mainframe into a flat file for manipulation into an Access database. The government requires Database Management Specialist experience using current DBMS technology and DBMS internals. Specifically, Microsoft Office Suites '97 experience, to include but not limited to Microsoft Access, Excel and Powerpoint, is required to reconstruct data downloaded from the Bureau's mainframe based system and scanned in data, for the purpose of producing presentation quality charts, graphs and desktop publishing presentation. The contract includes a Base Year and four 12-month option periods. The period of performance will be through the end of the Base Year, September 30, 1998, or through the end of option periods, if exercised. The Government reserves the right not to open this requirement to competition based upon the responses to this notice. Technical responses and requests received as a result of this notice of intent will normally be considered solely for the purposes of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Interested firms must submit clear and convincing data substantiating their capability to furnish this requirement within fifteen days from publication of this notice. A SOLICITATION PACKAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE. If affirmative responses are not received, award will be made to Software Design Enterprises. All responses must be submitted in writing and reference Contract No. 50-DKEX-8-90078. See Numbered Note 22. (0084)

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