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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF OCTOBER 30,1998 PSA#2212BLM, BC-660, Bldg #50, Denver Federal Center, P.O. Box 25047, Denver,
CO 80225-0047 76 -- INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SOL nar990006 POC
Marty Coffee, 303/236-9439, Procurement Clerk E-MAIL: click here to
contact the procurement technician via, M30coffe@sc.blm.gov. The Bureau
of Land Management has a requirement to provide advanced digital
multimedia technology. This requirement proposes to build upon a
successful prototype model(The Aurora Project) which includes the San
Pedro River in Arizona.The Aurora Project created an exciting new
interactive and educational communications paradigm for natural
resource projects. This project combines the latest digital multimedia
techniques with examples of sound field science portraying community
watershed partnerships. The BLM has identified additional potential
projects using the Aurora techniques. Projects may be located in the
Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West and Northwest US and northern Mexico.
Shooting locations are in rugged remote natural areas. These
requirements shall produce the following three distinct products: (1)
CD-ROM or possibly a DVD-ROM (which has the capacity of almost seven
CD-ROM's) shall be used as a stand alone product to provide a rich and
fast interactive, non-linear, multimedia experience to apopulation of
all ages of individuals, families and small groups who plan to visit
the San Pedro River area. Schools, educational and conservation
organizations and travel agents would also be audiences. Sites shall be
selected where QTVR panoramas would be photographed and digitized, and
shall incorporate hot spots highlighting special historic, geological,
biological, archaeological, cultural or other features with video,
still images, and narration. This content could easily fill up a CD-ROM
disk of 650 megabytes. An interface design that uses QuickTime Virtual
Reality (QTVR) movies (360 degree panoramas in which the user can move
freely -- horizontally, vertically and zoom in and out)shall be used.
Interactive hot spots in the QTVR's shall present short audio-visual
and digitized video stories. Animated USGS digital elevation
models(DEM's)(realistic landscape representations)low elevation aerial
videography and on-the-ground glide cam video footage moving through
the environment could introduce each QTVR; (2) Computer Kiosk. The
CD-ROM with slight modification shall also be produced as an
interactive computer Kiosk CD-ROM for placement at public locations
such as the future San Pedro River Interpretative Center, other visitor
centers, and Government building entry ways. Visitors would be invited
to use the kiosks to get immediate and rich multimedia information
about various features of the Conservation Area; and (3) Internet Web
Site. This CD-ROM shall also be used in conjunction with a San Pedro
Internet Web Site which has already produced a web site with a San
Pedro component. The Web site shall provide the primary source of
current graphic elements such as QTVR panoramas and other more static
information during the time that the project is being produced. Links
to new dimensions of the Conservation Area which become available after
the CD-ROM is mastered and duplicated for distribution ahall also be
added to the Web site. This requirement shall be produced in sequences
that make the interactive QTVR panoramas and other very attractive
audiovisual information available on the Web as soon as possible.
Continued production of a more media rich and interactive CD-ROM and/or
DVD-ROM shall follow. The Internet site shall be updated as the project
progresses to include appropriate new information and also new media
rich technologies such as attractive narrated slide shows and video
clips which are already becoming available at common intenet modem
speeds such as 56 and 28K/second. Firms must have the capability to
produce in the Spanish language as well as English. It is anticipated
that a one-year IDIQ contract with two one-year options will be awarded
to multiple firms. Firms will be required to demonstrate a completed
digital interactive multimedia CD-ROM. Solicitation documents should be
available about mid-November. A preproposal conference demonstrating
the Aurora Project will be held in Boise, Idaho around the first of
December. See Note 1. Posted 10/28/98 (W-SN266371). (0301) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0239 19981030\76-0001.SOL)
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