Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Procurement Operations Branch, MS2500, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817

D -- PETROLEUM ECONOMIC EVALUATION SOFTWARE SOL RFQ 16154 DUE 090299 POC Ms. Dotty Quinn (703) 787-1365 The United States Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS), intends to aquire commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, maintenance and technical support services to perform case studies on offshore oil and gas field production histories in conjunction with economic policy analysis. The Government will conduct this acquisition using a streamlined competitive process pursuant to the Federal Acquisition regulation Part 12 (Acquisition of Commercial Items) and Part 13 . BACKGROUND The application component is a complementary subsystem of MMS's Technical Information Management System (TIMS) which supports MMS mission critical information needs. The TIMS is the information technology infrastructure (hardware, software and telecommunication) the MMS Offshore Program uses to store and process all of its technical data. The subsystem consists of exploration and production data management, reservoir engineering and economic evaluation subcomponents, and automates a part of the MMS mission-critical activities in the oil and gas economic analysis program. The software supplier will provide technical support for product implementation, a training program for end user personnel and product maintenance and support. The purpose of this acquisition is to provide a vehicle for expanding MMS's economic analysis capability. MINIMUM MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR GENERAL OPERATIONS. The software shall interface with: Microsoft Windows 95/98 Office Suite, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle; personal computers having a 300Mhz CPU, 64MB of RAM, 6GB hardrive, 32X CD ROM; and support monitors having 1000x760 screen resolution and both standard and color laser jet printers. MINIMUM MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR TECHNICAL FUNCTIONALTIY. The software shall provide for the following capabilities: deterministic reserves estimation using decline curve analysis, probabilistic reserve estimation using Monte Carlo simulation methods, economic modeling, and integrated data management with ODBC compatible production databases, i.e., TIMS. The data management module shall provide for: a library of graphical forms and reports for production and economic data; data loaders for ASCII files in various formats; support of SQL loader functions; run data loaders interactively or in batch mode; and support corporate or project databases by extracting some or all of one database and inserting or updating that data in another. PROVIDE a price for the initial software license fee, training, maintenance and support over the three year contract life. Must be Year 2000 compliant. This includes training approximately 5 MMS personnel, and provisions for maintaining and any upgrade replacement software through September 2002. Additionally, the submittal must include clear and comprehensive documentation that the software will meet all the minimum mandatory requirements contained in this notice. All software shall be in full production as of the date of this notice. Beta versions are not acceptable. The corporate plan identified above and the ability ofofferors to adequately document compliance with the minimum mandatory requirements will be a major factor during the evaluation process and selection for contract award. Submittal is due twenty (20) calendar days from the publication date of this notice. Send an original and two copies to Ms. Dotty Quinn, Contracting Officer, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817. Posted 08/19/99 (W-SN370109). (0231)

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