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D -- CONTINUATION TO CONDUCT MODELING AND MODEL VALIDATION SOL 52-DKEX-0-90023 POC Francine Q. Bland, 301 713-0829 E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, Francine.Q.Bland@afg.noaa.gov. The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration is in the process of redesigning a major mission critical information system to support export control and enforcement business processes. DoC/NOAA intends to negotiate with Sharp Informatics on a sole source basis for the continuation to conduct modeling and model validation. The period of performance will be for a base year and two option years. Sharp Informatics has provided unique expertise in the area of model validation with an established, defined and rigorous approach for validating requirements in an information model. This notice is not a request for competitive proposals. However, interested parties may submit to the POC an experience statement for conducting analyses by addressing how their process meets the following conditions: 1. It should provide for a way to deal with the inability of domain subject matter experts (SME) to be effective in mastering the knowledge in graphical information models that typically contain a condensed, abstract form of the subject area knowledge. The procedure should provide the ability for the SME to understand the rules described in the information model in a natural way that doesn't require the SME's to possess modeling skills. 2. It should remove the barrier between the information technology professionals (the analyst eliciting requirements) and domain SME when the presentation of knowledge is expressed in a formal modeling syntax. 3. It should explain the technical specifications in such a way as to make the subject matter expert, not the analyst, capable of precisely validating the design so that the SME can provide the accountability for the resulting application. 4. It should provide a robust methodology for guarantying that the SME has been asked the necessary questions to ensure model validation using procedures that are independent of an analyst's individual modeling expertise. Responses received in accordance with Note 22 will be considered by the Government. Please refer to Note 22 for additional information. Posted 01/06/00 (W-SN413791). (0006)

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