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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JUNE 28,1999 PSA#2376NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE, CONTRACTING DIVISION, CODE N41, STENNIS
SPACE CNTR, MS 39522-5001 70 -- INFORMATION HANDLING SOFTWARE SOL N62306-9154-IHSS DUE 070699
POC Contract Specialist, M.M. FLETCHER, (228) 689-8369 This sources
sought announcment is issued for the purpose of identifying sources to
provide Information Handling System software to meet the draft
requirements described herein. NAVOCEANO requires an Information
Handling System (IHS) to manage, organize, and retrieve equipment
documentation quickly and easily across a network. There presently are
nine (9) separate networks involved. One is the in-house network, the
NAVO LAN. The others are on each of eight- (8) survey ships. One set
of shipboard software for in-house management of the shipboard systems
will also be required. The types of documentation to be handled by the
system include CAD drawings, Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS),
operation and maintenance manuals, instructions and procedures,
reports, pictures, etc. Approximately 3000 drawings and 3000 pages of
documentation will be stored on each shipboard system. The in-house
system will be required to store all the information from each ship.
Some duplication will occur, so the in-house systemcould be required to
store up to 20,000 drawings and 20,000 pages of documentation. The
NAVOCEANO LAN has many workstations with access to the LAN. Typically
up to 5 users are expected to require access to the IHS at any given
time. The eight individual shipboard systems will be used over the
shipboard LANs independent of the in-house LAN. Each shipboard LAN has
a small number of workstations, with typically no more than 2 users at
a time requiring access to the IHS. Required salient characteristics --
In-house system must operate on a Windows NT 4.0 system, running
Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, with 256MB RAM, and with the
hard drives formatted as NTFS, be menu driven, be able to retrieve and
display approximately 20,000 drawings and 20,000 pages of
documentation in a format that provides zoom and pan. One in-house
system will be required. Shipboard systems is to be able to retrieve
and display approximately 3000 drawings and 3000 pages of documentation
in a format that provides zoom and pan. A total of nine shipboard
systems will be required. Both IHS systems are to be able to print
whole or operator selected parts of documents and drawings; use
"native" format of documents for storage (MS Word documents in .DOC
format, AutoCAD drawings in .DWG, etc.); no conversion of documentation
from native format is to be required to make documents usable in IHS;
interact with other applications (e.g. MS Word, AutoCAD, MS Excel,
CMIS, etc.) to allow editing of documentation by authorized users; and
retrieve and display documents developed using the latest revision of
application software that has been available to the general public for
at least 3 months. When application software is updated after initial
delivery of the IHS software, an update to the IHS software must be
provided within 3 months following availability of the application
software to the general public. Operate over a LAN. Allow for
maintenance of documentation by NAVOCEANO personnel. Revision,
addition, or deletion of documents must not require special operators
or custom programs. Restrict user access to files except as authorized
by a system administrator for editing, printing, adding or deleting.
Allow users to quickly locate, view, and print documentation in native
format without requiring the user to run the native application.
Enable a user to search through all files for documents containing
desired text, numbers, or combination of numbers and text (No
requirement for a pre-established list of keywords or phrases). Allow
new documents and files to be added at any time by authorized users.
Automatically recognize and add to the list of accessible documents,
new documents that are added to an authorized directory. Operate on any
Windows 95 Pentium computer with 3 1/2" floppy, 1GB hard drive, CD-ROM
drive, 32-MB memory, and SVGA monitor. Must require no new or
specialized hardware. Have low life-cycle maintenance costs, for
software and data. Include the following YEAR 2000 WARRANTY: The
contractor warrants that each hardware, software, and firmware
delivered under this contract and listed above shall be able to
accurately process date data (including, but not limited to,
calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including leap year calculations,
when used in accordance with the product documentation provided by the
contractor, provided that all listed or unlisted products (e.g.
hardware, software, firmware) used in combination with such listed
product properly exchange date data with it. If the contract requires
that specific listed products must perform as a system in accordance
with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply to those
listed products as a system. Contractor is to provide with response,
technical literature describing available product(s), including a
description of modifications that is anticipated to be required to meet
the NAVOCEANO specifications, anticipated delivery time, information on
corporate capabities including background, business size, and previous
customers (including company/activity names, points of contact,
order/contract numbers/description of sale, telephone number) and
estimated pricing for software meeting the Government's draft
requirement. Responses are are to be submitted to the attention of Ms.
Mona M. Fletcher, Naval Oceanographic Office, Contracting Division,
Code N412, Stennis Space Center, MS 39522-5001 ((228) 689-8369, FAX
(228) 689-8392, e-mail fletcherm@navo.navy.mil, by 06 July 1999. Posted
06/24/99 (I-SN346877). (0175) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0353 19990628\70-0013.SOL)
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