U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, Room 1230, 844 North Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611-2092

D -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INCLUDING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SOL rfi 99-c-32 DUE 090299 POC Velinda Nix 312/751-3387 -- fax 312/751-4923 PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS SUBPART: SERVICES CLASSCOD: D -- Information Technology Services, including Telecommunication Services OFFADD: U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, 9th Flr., 844 North Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611-2092 SUBJECT: D -- DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE FOR AN INTRANET-BASED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SOL 99-RFI-32 POC Velinda Nix (312) 751-3387 Fax (312) 751-4923 DESC: The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) seeks sources to provide software for an intranet-based information distribution system to replace our current mainframe-based system. The package(s) offered should have the characteristics and capabilities described below. Companies having the ability to furnish this software are requested to provide written notification (including telephone number for a point of contact). The written notification must contain detailed data about the software, price, provisions for conversion of the procedure documents currently stored on the mainframe to the intranet, whether software can run on an NT server or mainframe OS 390, and whether a test period is possible. The notification should be sent to the processing office in this notice within 15 calendar days from the date of this synopsis. The RRB is a Federal agency with approximately 1,200 end users, 60 of which are procedure and information writers. The RRB's current documents are stored and viewed electronically through a mainframe product called TextBOOK by Document Sciences Corporation. The majority of the documents are procedural based used to administer the agency's benefit programs. The documents are text only. Graphics are not part of the current online presentation. The source documents are stored in the TextBOOK database in SGML. The documents use just under 500 megabytes of storage. The documents are organized into libraries, manuals, chapters and sections. Information on how suggested products perform the following functions and exhibit the following characteristics is required: 1. Search function. * Search on single and multiple words. * Ability to limit search to a specific document(s). * Search on parts of words and long phrases or sentences. 2. Print function. * Flexible to print as little as a sentence to as large as a whole document. * Print viewer selected highlighted areas. 3. Allow for the integration of graphics into the text. 4. System generated highlights of latest revisions to the documents and display revision dates. 5. Bookmark function. 6. Viewer can annotate document for personal use. 7. Provide for ease of navigation by displaying a menu, outline or hierarchy of documents. 8. Allow for the setting of hypertext links between documents. 9. Online help or training function. 10. Pend or staging area to review and edit information imported to the intranet before it can be viewed by all. 11. Multiple author environment which permits intermittent updates. 12. Accept varying levels of WordPerfect and Word additions and updates. 13. System generated menu for the initial conversion and as documents are added, changed or deleted. 14. Access to view documents can be limited to authorized users or groups. 15. Allow certain documents on our Intranet to be viewed by the public from our Internet site (security issues, storage/retrieval issues). 16. Does product allow for future expansion? For example: * Search across multiple file servers, allowing users to access networked data throughout our agency (e.g., data from our imaging system, memos). * Track documents (workflow). * Maintain a document history (log of every activity performed on a document). * Incorporate Department of Defense standard DOD 5015.2-STD, the Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications. Upon written request, the RRB will provide a document detailing the current software and hardware in use at the RRB. Requests may be submitted to the address identified above or faxed to 312/751-4923. No telephone calls will be accepted. The software packages(s) offered must have the characteristics and capabilities described below. Companies having the ability to furnish this software are requested to provide written notification (including telephone number for a point of contact) and detailed data regarding this software to the processing office in this notice with in 15 calendar days from the date of this synopsis. CONTRACTOR/CONTRACT INFORMATION A. CONTRACT Information (Circle One & fill in applicable information) 1. GSA Contract No. -- ________________________ 2. Government Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC)**_________________________, Agency ____________, Contract Number **Provide copy of GSA or GWAC terms and conditions, price schedule, etc., with offer. RRB does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this request or to pay for the information solicited. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR OFFERS OR BIDS. No telephone calls will be accepted. The RRB shall not transmit acknowledgment of receipt of vendor submissions. Posted 08/18/99 (W-SN369476). (0230)

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