DOC, CAMS Support Center, NOAA/Systems Acquisitions Office (SAO), 209 Perry Parkway, Suite 5, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

D -- COTS SCHEDULING SOFTWARE DUE 012500 POC Carol Silverman, Contract Specialist/Gary Rice, Contracting Officer/301-258-4505 The Department of Commerce, Commerce Administrative Management System (CAMS) Support Center, is seeking sources interested in providing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) scheduling software. This is not a request for competitive proposals. The purpose of this notice is to develop a list of qualified firms that can provide the required software. The scheduling software must allow the user to submit batch jobs with little or no human intervention. (Example: A user submits three batch jobs. The first and second jobs can run independently, but the third job should not be processed until the first two jobs are complete. The scheduling software must permit the user to submit all three jobs simultaneously and process the third job when the first two jobs have been successfully completed or hold the third job if either of the first two jobs fail.) This scheduling software must be able to support multiple operating systems (IBM AIX, DEC UNIX 4.OE or higher, Solaris 2.6 or higher, Sun OS, and Windows NT 4.0 SP5 orhigher); support Oracle versions 7.3.4.X, 8.X, 8.0i or higher; support TCP/IP and SQL*Net; be capable of initiating batch jobs by time of day, successful completion of prior steps, the presence of run on-demand values contained within specific fields, the arrival of new ASCII files or Oracle tables; provide the capability to support static time-of-day constraints as well as specific values placed in an Oracle table, and/or job success and stop completion logic; support variable job streaming; support static and dynamic parameters or arguments; support routing of job results and error messages; have the capability to minimally monitor and control jobs on a real-time basis from one or more administrative nodes on a network (a graphical user interface (GUI) is required); support auto restart and recovery; have the capability to support access control for specific users; and be Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant. Interested firms should submit a letter of interest and a description of their product to the Contract Specialist indicated above at the address indicated above or sent via facsimile transmission to 301-258-4525. Responses will be accepted until 1/25/2000. Firms responding to this announcement are not guaranteed to be included on any resulting source list for future Requests for Proposals (RFPs) related to this requirement. Posted 01/05/00 (W-SN413224). (0005)

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