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D -- NATO: ACE ACCIS CORE CAPABILITY INCREMENT 1- INTEGRATION SOL CO-9111-ACE DUE 041700 POC Alexis Kemper (202-482-1512) The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) invites bids for the acquisition of the ACE ACCIS Core Capability Increment 1- Integration. The Allied Command Europe Automated Command and Control Information System (ACE ACCIS) Core Capability is planned to provide the Allied Command Europe (ACE) commanders with the information system they require for decision-making in peace, crisis, and war in both static and mobile headquarters. ACE ACCIS will support the consultative process in the changing political and military situation between senior NATO commanders and civilian and non-NATO military agencies in crisis management situations, civil emergencies and confidence building measures. In technical terms, ACE ACCIS is a distributed information system responsive to security and technological developments. It is composed of information-systems nodes, consisting of a Core capability and associated Functional Area Sub-Systems (FASSs), dispersed throughout ACE. The Core capability is the critical foundation of the ACE ACCIS. It consists of an infrastructure, equipment, and software to provide a range of basic services to users. It is required to be interoperable across ACE, and where possible integrated with all related sub-systems. Currently, activities are ongoing by several different independent contractors to implement additional hardware and software to the existing capabilities at a number of sites. In order to standadize the existing parts of the Core capability, an Integration contractor will be selected through this ICB to select, procure, and implement additional Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software products and integrate them to achieve a coherent capability. These products include system management services (e.g. Enterprise Management System) security services, document management map viewer capability, and a collaborative tool. In addition, the Integration contractor will integrate the Core capability into a coherent whole and bring it under complete Configuration Management (CM). The integration contractor will be responsible to complete ists effort at a variety of some 15 sites throughout NATO. The number of software licensesis estimated at 7000 per application. The ACE ACCis Core comprioses the first three planned increments of the ACE ACCIS program and will provide the basic core capability foundation for the subsequent ACE ACCIS FASS projects to build upon. All applicants must be certified by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Telecommunications. Submit all nomination request to Alexis Kemper (fax: 202-482-5834) by COB 17 April 2000. Posted 03/14/00 (W-SN434379). (0074)

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