U.S. Geological Survey, Branch Of Acquisition and Federal Assistance, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046

D -- COTS SOFTWARE FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT, ORDER ENTRY, ORDER PROCESSING, RETAIL SALES, CUSTOMER ACCOUNTING AND RELATED MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND CUSTOMER SERVICE FUNCTIONS SOL 98CRSS0008 DUE 051799 POC Teresa Henninger, Contracting Officer, (303) 236-5900 x335 The U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division (NMD) has a requirement for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software to support the inventory management, order entry, order processing, and customer accounting functions involved with managing NMD's inventories of products and the dissemination of those products. The COTS software provided shall require little or no modification or customization. Period of performance is for a basic period of twelve (12) months and includes four (4) one-year option periods. The base year includes the delivery and installation FOB destination to Denver, Colorado, one-year maintenance, training, and Evaluated Optional Requirements for interfaces for implementation and support services. Option years I through IV include maintenance and training. Optional items during the option years include additional functionality at the first installation site and/or installation of the COTS software and training at additional locations, as well as maintenance and support services at some or all installed locations. Optional sites for software delivery, installation, and training include Reston, VA, Washington, D.C., Sioux Falls, SD, Menlo Park, CA, Rolla, MO, Salt Lake City, UT, Spokane, WA, and Anchorage, AK. Before award, the otherwise successful offeror will, at the Government's option, be required to pass a demonstration of satisfactory performance of the COTS software. After award, delivery and installation of the software shall be completed within 45 calendar days after award date of the contract. This software will replace customized COTS software, the Inventory subsystem of the Federal Financial System and the custom software that the Government has developed around it. The current hardware will be replaced by two Sun 450 servers (one for production, one for testing and backup) running the current version of Solaris, Oracle RDBMS, a shared 109-gigabyte RAID disk array, and other hardware more fully described in the RFP. (The proposed software shall use the Government furnishedequipment or furnish all hardware required to meet the Government requirements.) The system is connected to the Novell local area network, which in turn connects to the USGS wide area network. Connected to the system are postage machines, various printers, Intermec spread-spectrum radio-frequency data communication hardware; point of sale retail sales systems and Verifone credit card machines are in use but not integrated with the present system. The Government has approximately 250 registered users, some of whom are at remote locations, and approximately 60 concurrent users at peak use periods. The current system processes an average of 2000 orders per week, $8 to $10 million in annual sales; the inventory has approximately 100,000 different items, some of which have multiple locations. The current database (in Ingres) occupies approximately 13 gigabytes. Issue and due date specified above is estimated. Request a copy of the solicitation by US Mail at the above address, or by fax at (303) 236-5859. All responsible sources may submit an offer which will be considered. Posted 03/30/99 (W-SN314247). (0089)

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