Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Contracts and Procurement (NAD-30), 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590

R -- MOTOR VEHICLE IMPORTATION INFORMATION SYSTEM SUPPORT SOL DTNH22-98-R-01126 POC Rose Watson, Contract Specialist, (202) 366-9557 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) intends to negotiate with R & E Science to provide technical and operational computer system support for the Motor Vehicle Importation Information System for the Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance (OVSC). The NHTSA, primarily the OVSC shares the responsibility with the U.S. Customs Service for monitoring the importation of motor vehicles and motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. The Motor Vehicle Importation Information System was developed for this purpose. The system is currently being upgraded and is being designed and developed using case tools with Oracle Designer 2000 and with an Oracle 7 server running under a Windows NT and Windows 95 client/server environment. The original program was designed to operate utilizing a software package and computer system that is no longer being supported by its developer. In order to maintain the old database and new test data, a new program is necessary. The program will focus on and require experience in system design and re-engineering, system integration, relational database design, and data modeling, system application development, system implementation, system networking design and configuration including installation of the operating system, network system administration, LAN administration, life-cycle development management and familiarity with Oracle 7, Designer/2000, on Windows NT platforms, and System 1032, Cobol, Fortran on a VAX/VMS environment, interfacing with IBM mainframes and Unix. Interested firms must provide written response that includes detailed information as to professional qualifications and relevant expertise, specifically addressing skills and technical expertise in Oracle 7 and Oracle 8, Designer 2000 in Windows NT combined with System 1032, Cobol and Fortran in a VAX/VMS environment. Expressions of interest without sufficient detail to permit evaluation of capability will not be considered. Oral expressions of interest will not be considered. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals nor is a Request-for-Proposal solicitation document currently available. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive contract action. In the absence of responses from interested firms demonstrating their capability, NHTSA intends to request a proposal from R & E Science on a noncompetitive basis for the work described. Responses must be received by the listed procuring office within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of publication of this notice. (0152)

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