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D -- COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT -- COORDINATE MEASUREMENT MACHINES SOL APM/GUIRULE DUE 051598 POC Marilyn H. Giles, (423) 574-2214 WEB: Further information on this project., http://www.ornl.gov/orcmt/partnering.html. E-MAIL: Contact Point:, gilesmh@ornl.gov. Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., a facility managing and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, proposes to enter into an agreement with a company to complete the development of a computer software package. The software pertains to the automated programming of coordinate measurement machines. Two existing developmental software packages consisting of several hundred thousand lines of C++ code have already been written by Energy Systems. The purpose of the proposed collaboration is to complete the development of that code at no cost to the government in exchange for granting rights to the commercial firm to market the finished code. The final code must be directly compatible (no translation) with Computer-Aided Design models created by Pro/Enginner, and must provide DMIS output with a migration path to QUINDOS. The end-user platform must be Windows NT (preferred) or Silicon Graphics UNIX; maximum evaluation credit will be given for cross-platform capability.The selection of the commercial firm to participate in this collaboration will be based primarily upon the evaluation of proposals received from candidate firms confirming their capability to meet those design requirements and showing how their firm will ensure that usable commercial-grade code will be available within two years and maintained in the future. Additional factors that will be considered are the proposing firm's willingness to fund Energy Systems' participation in the collaboration and willingness to pay royalties on future commercial sales of the resulting product. Commercial firms interested in submitting proposals for this collaboration can receive additional material by responding to this announcement and by executing a Nondisclosure Agreement to receive detailed information about the existing code. To be considered as a potential collaboration partner, interested companies must respond by May 15, 1998. This is not a procurement activity and no funds are available to support respondent's efforts. (0124)

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