U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW, Room 413, Washington, DC 20436

R -- DATAWEB QUALITY ASSURANCE DUE 062598 POC Deborah Kearns, Contracting Officer, (202) 205-2736 The U.S. International Trade Commission is seeking information and potential sources from the marketplace for Contractor support for quality assurance (QA) for the agency's DataWeb system, an Oracle-based, web-accessible "warehouse" of international trade and tariff information. Support is also sought for QA of customized trade reports generated by the agency's computer programming staff from the DataWeb database. The overall objective of this requirement are, first, to make the database completely accurate, and then to "foolproof" the DataWeb as much as possible, i.e., to make it difficult for non-technical users operating in a self-service environment to generate results that are inaccurate or misleading. Firms having interest in providing these services should submit company's business size, a capability statement, including most recent and relevant experience and points of contact. The capability statement shall also address past experience or expertise in performing the services listed below. The Government anticipates that accomplishment of this requirement will require a systems approach to elimination of sources of error in the database and query software, and application of expertise in Oracle databases and various access tools, as well as knowledge of international trade and tariff data or related fields and formal methods of quality assurance in a data warehouse environment. The service shall consist of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following tasks: (1) provide QA for DataWeb warehouse and (2) provide QA review for individual tabulations (per piece or per hour). Any business or firm that believes they are capable of providing this service, should submit a brief capability statement to the above address to the attention of Deborah Kearns, Contract Specialist. Statements should be received NO LATER than JUNE 26, 1998. This is not a request for proposals (RFP) and contract award will not be made on the basis of the RFI. (0167)

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