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R -- PERFORM A SITE CRITIQUE OR HEURISTIC EVALUATION OF THE AMERICAN MEMORY PAGES SOL RFQ98P-24 DUE 071598 POC Charlotte A. Mathis, ph: (202) 707-8604 fax: (202) 707-8611 WEB: The Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov. E-MAIL: The Library of Congress, c mathis@loc.gov. The National Digital Library Program (NDLP) of the Library of Congress has a requirement for specialized services to evaluate the portion of the Library's Website that pertains to the digitized historical collections known as American Memory. Two dozen collections of unique holdings from the Library of Congress represent a full range of media and formats including documents (ranging in length from one page to book length), black-and-white and color photographs, maps, sound recordings and motion pictures. The Learning Page and its associated pages contain resources for educators and learners to facilitate use of the American Memory collections. The Library seeks qualified experts to perform a site critique or heuristic evaluation. The focus will be on the American Memory pages including The Learning Page. The evaluation should include technical consideration of navigability, searchability and contextual information. Offerors may choose to focus the evaluation on a particular criteria depending on their primary area of expertise. A technical response is necessary to evaluate the offeror's capability to meet the stated requirement and provide the deliverables specified in the Statement of Work (SOW). The technical and cost response shall be separate. The offeror shall describe a minimum of two (2) other efforts performed during the past three (3) years that demonstrate ability and experience including, but not limited to: Analysis of World Wide Web-sites, technical understanding of how to build a Web-site, understanding of interface design principles and knowledge of search and retrieval systems. The description must include names, titles, and phone numbers of project reference contacts, and dates during which the related work was performed. The offeror shall provide specific responses to the following: an outline or plan of the evaluation process to be followed. This should include: a description of the proposed methods for gathering information, explanation of the evaluation criteria or usability heuristicsto be used and indication of the individual(s) who will perform each part of the process. Offerors shall identify proposed key personnel and shall provide resumes that indicate experience in the area relevant to work on the project. All interested parties shall request BY FAX, the Statement of Work (SOW)on company letterhead to: Charlotte A. Mathis (202) 707-8611. This contract will be awarded on Best Value to the Government. Posted 06/29/98 (0180)

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