Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, FOB #3, Room 1541, Washington,(Suitland, MD) DC 20233

D -- SAS SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SOL 52-SOBC-0-00002 DUE 030300 POC Beth Brooks, 301-457-4421 The U.S. Census Bureau has a requirement and intends to negotiate with SAS Institute, Inc. of Cary, NC on an other than full and open competition basis for continued licensing and support of the following proprietary software licenses for the period July 1, 2000 -- June 30, 2005. The license is for all current and future SAS Institute, Inc. software products to be licensed on any current and future U.S. Census Bureau platforms. The SAS Institute product suite currently includes but is not limited to: 1) Fourth generation languages, data access and storage facilities for data management, analysis, presentation and report writing (Base SAS, SAS/SPDS, SAS/MDDB SERVER, SAS/Secure, Enterprise Miner, Enterprise Reporter); 2) Individual interfaces that provide direct and transparent read/write links between SAS products and a variety of database management systems and file formats (SAS/ACCESS, SAS/ODBC); 3) Object oriented applications development environment for building highly interactive and intuitiveapplications driven by graphical user interfaces for both WEB based and non-WEB based applications (SAS/AF, SAS/EIS, AppDev Studio, SAS/INTRNET); 4) Point and click, menu-driven applications to many of the SAS tools, i.e., data analysis, report writing, etc. (SAS/ASSIST, SAS/ADX, SAS/PROJMAN); 5) Integrated financial consolidation and reporting capabilities, including multi-dimensional spreadsheet interface, interactive, integrated graphics, etc. (SAS/CALC, SAS/GRAPH, JMP, SAS/INSIGHT, SAS/GIS); 6) Client server computing within the SAS environment supporting a variety of advanced communications, protocols, enabling clients running in the SAS environment to establish communications with one or more SAS applications or programs running in remote environments (SAS/CONNECT, SAS/SHARE, SAS/SPDS); 7) Data management, analysis and presentation system designed to facilitate the operation and performance management of networks, phone centers, centralized and distributed systems (IT Service Vision); 8) Object-oriented development environment for creating and maintaining highly intuitive enterprise information systems and related data warehouses (SAS/Data Warehouse Administrator, SAS/EIS); 10) Integrated capabilities for time series analysis and forecasting, econometrics and system modeling, and financial analysis and reporting (SAS/ETS); 11) Facility for interactive data entry, editing, browsing, retrieval and letter writing (SAS/FSP); 12) Interactive tool for display and analysis of spatial related data (SAS/GIS); 13) Information and presentation color graphics capabilities to produce a wide variety of business charts, plots, maps in a variety of colors and patterns (SAS/GRAPH); 14) Interactive matrix programming facility for sophisticated data analysis and manipulation (SAS/IML); 15) Data exploration and analysis with ability to examine distributions and explore data through interactive histograms, box plots, scatter plots, and 3-D rotation plots (SAS/INSIGHT); 16) Guided data analysis for meeting day-to-day analyticaland data presentation needs of scientist and research engineers (SAS/LAB); 17) Project management, optimization and decision support capabilities for operations research and management science applications (SAS/OR); 18) Quality management and process improvement for establishing statistical quality control and reducing variability (SAS/QC); 19) Multiple user access to read, write and update the same data sources concurrently (SAS/SHARE); 20) Data visualization and modeling allowing users to create, analyze and modify geometric images representing multi-dimensional data (SAS/SPECTRAVIEW); 21) Statistical capabilities for regression analysis, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, multi-variate analysis, cluster analysis, survival analysis, psychometric analysis and non-parametric analysis (SAS/STAT, SAS/STATVIEW, SAS/Analyst); 22) Users ability to extend the languages of the SAS products by allowing them to write their own special procedures, proprietary routines for accessing internally developed data bases or libraries of specialized routines (SAS/TOOLKIT). SAS Institute software products may be deployed on any owned or leased, current and future U.S. Census Bureau platform. This requirement also includes documentation, training, consulting and technical support services. The Government has determined that SAS Institute, Inc. is the only source who can provide the required integrated software products and related support services due to their intrinsic knowledge and understanding of the software; and there are a significant number of applications that have been developed and are in production within the Census Bureau. Interested firms having the ability to furnish the above described requirements should submit their capability and product information to the above address to the attention of Beth Brooks within 45 days of this notice and reference. No telephone requests will be honored. See Note 22. Posted 02/18/00 (W-SN426800). (0049)

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