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D -- ENHANCEMENT TO EXISTING FERRET PROGRAM. SOL 52ABNR800072 DUE 071598 POC To reserve a copy of the announcement, call B.J. Huyck at 206)526-4499 or Fax 206)526-6025. For more information call Judi Jzyk, Contract Specialist, at 206)526-6039. This publication serves as notice of intent to procure, on a sole source basis, services required by Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) for software enhancements and extensions of two existing software applications within NOAA. The work consists of evaluating software requirements, developing an object oriented architecture based on those requirements, create a design, implementation and debugging, management of operating systems, design of user interfaces and performing usability testing, and troubleshooting and correcting legacy software. The Government intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Mr. Joseph Sirott as we believe this is the only source which possesses the unique skill base and exceptional specialized expertise to produce these enhancements within these state-of-the-art software programs. Mr. Sirott was instrumental as a critical programmer working on the initial Ferret code and could provide the essential experience and ability required to work in the Ferret visualization and scientific analysis environment. All interested concerns who believe they can competitively and effectively provide these services must demonstrate experience in enhancing this system. Specifically, 1) in-depth knowledge of the Ferret program, especially the ISO/GKS, X-window/Motif programming, object oriented design, interface design, netCDF, COARDS netCDF, and CORBA distributed object standards; 2) in-depth knowledge of FORTRAN 77, C,C++ and Java computer languages; 3) in-depth knowledge of Java JDK1.1 system and "Swing" Java user interface class libraries; 4) in-depth knowledge of CORBA Visibroker for Java implementation of CORBA, Java Remote Method of Invocation (RMI) programming, Web programming/protocols/server configuration, and JAVA based Web servers and JAVA "servlets"; 5) in-depth knowledge of MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), Win32 API, OLE, Microsoft Visual C++ and Symantec Visual Caf development environments; and 6) in-depth knowledge of Unix and Windows NT system configuration and management. Responses must be sent to the above address not later than July 15, 1998. The period of performance is anticipated to be one year, starting approximately 9/30/98 with a one (1) one-year option. This notice may represent the only official notice of such solicitation. See Note 22.***** (0160)

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