Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Procurement Operations Branch, MS2500, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817

70 -- MODELING SOFTWARE SOL 98-15170 DUE 071598 POC Jackie Halprin 703-787-1341 WEB: For more information about MMS and its programs, click, www.mms.gov. E-MAIL: Click here to contact the contracting officer, jackie.halprin@mms.gov. The Minerals Management Service (MMS) intends to issue a sole-source award to the Minnesota IMPLAN Group, Inc., 1940 South Greeley Street, Suite 101, Stillwater, MN 55082-6059, for IMPLAN Pro modeling software, training, and county-level data bases for all coastal States in the continental US. The MMS will modify existing IMPLAN data bases to specify more accurate, first round, onshore spending patterns for oil and gas projects on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and will use the resulting data bases and IMPLAN Pro software to estimate the regional economic impacts of proposed OCS activities on nearby onshore areas. The MMS knows of no widely available, nationwide, standardized data series that distinguish between data from shallow-water and deep-water oil and gas projects, or from onshore and offshore projects. IMPLAN Pro software: 1) allows the user to create and save customized IMPLAN data bases, which is crucial; 2) meets all the Service's technical needs, providing comparable data for usein all coastal regions, the ability to update such data from year to year, and offering considerable flexibility; 3) allows the user to develop customized multiplier tables, to develop a complete set of social accounting matrix accounts, to print a variety of reports to examine model assumptions and calculations, to modify any component of the systems, products functions, trade flows, or data base, to group and regroup coastal counties for different analyses, and to create custom, predictive impact analyses; 4) contains built-in and editable deflators for analyses of historical data; 5) has been tested extensively; 6) allows geographically dispersed staff to use without on-site technical support; 7) is Year 2000 compliant as defined in FAR 39.002. IMPLAN Pro is used by the MMS' contractors to perform economic impact analyses, promoting consistency across a variety of studies. Award will be made under FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. Authority for sole source procurement is FAR 6.302-1. This synopsis is an intention to award and no solicitation is available. Responsible sources who are interested in this procurement may respond by providing clear and convincing evidence of their capability to fill this requirement, including technical and pricing data. All responses must be faxed to the Contracting Officer at (703) 787-1387 or e-mail to jackie.halprin@mms.gov . Phone calls will neither be accepted nor acknowledged. (0169)

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