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D -- CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATIONAL WATERWAY NETWORK GIS SOL DACW29-98-Q-0273 DUE 091898 POC Charles R. Zammit (504) 862-1164 FAX (504) 862-2889 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer (USACE) New Orleans District intends to negotiate and award a contract with Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research (VECTOR) of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN for the continued development and improvement of the National Waterway Network (NWN) geographic information system (GIS). The NWN is one component of a set of transportation geographic data sets known as the National Transportation Atlas (NTA). The NTA is a collection of geo-spacial databases developed by the Department of Transportation and other Federal Agencies depicting transportation facilities, networks, and services of national significance. They are designed to be used with GIS software packages to locate transportation features and provide a framework for transportation network analysis. Vanderbilt University facilitated the design and construction of the original NWN and to date has been responsible for NWN maintenance. VECTOR serves as the repository for the NWN andmaintains a single, current, "working copy" of the network for completing change orders (physical changes necessitated by dredging, additions of waterways, additions of ports, etc.) which are requested by the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center of USACE. This procurement is being conducted on a sole source basis in accordance with FAR 6.302-1. Interested parties should make requests regarding this notice in writing to the point of contact listed above. See Note 22. Posted 08/25/98 (W-SN241619). (0237)

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