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70 -- COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE SUITE SOL N00140-00-RFI3 POC Point of Contact -- J.J. Swizewski, Contracting Officer 215-697-9630 E-MAIL: CLICK HERE TO CONTACT THE CONTRACTING OFFICER, james_swizewski@phil.fisc.navy.mil. The Joint Experimentation Directorate (J9) of United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has a requirement for a Collaborative Workspace Suite that will provide a variety of collaboration functions for the Directorate to work in synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with internal staff and external distributed experimentation partners. The collaborative tool will be hosted on the USJFCOM unclassified network, but may eventually be used on the classified network as well. Specific functionality desired of the tool includes the following: audio conferencing, whiteboard, document storage, document version control, document sharing, application sharing, text chat and virtual conference spaces. The product must support various file types including images, text, audio and video. Specific design principles include ease of use for the end user, open systems environment (OSE) compliant architecture, scalable to support up to 500 concurrent users in multiple collaborative sessions, and integratable into the existing infrastructure of USJFCOM, which at present is NT 4.0 operating system. In addition, the product should be extensible to add further functionality in the future as may be required by the Directorate. Vendors who respond should include comments regarding technical support provided during testing and implementation as well as training provided to system administrators and end users. In addition, the government requires product specifications, hardware and software requirements, bandwidth requirements, company history and a list of customers and points of contact who are now or intend to be using the product. This request is for information only. Industry is requested to identify features or performance requirements in the specification that may incur unwarranted cost or schedule risk. In addition, the identification of requirements that should be added to the specification is also encouraged. As industry may expect to see portions of submitted information in future solicitations, no proprietary information should be submitted. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS REQUEST FOR INFORMATION OR OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of the submission of industry information. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified. Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulation! s. In addition to the above information, you may submit information regarding existing contracts where the products and services you offer are available, i.e. GSA or other contract vehicle. Interested parties are requested to submit a one page statement demonstrating their capability to perform the services listed above, provide information regarding their manpower resources, previous projects, and experiences with this type of effort. Comments should be received by5 June 2000. These responses may be submitted via e-mail to cocciokl@jfcom.mil or via hardcopy to Karen Coccio, USJFCOM, 1562 Mitscher Ave., Suite #200 J9, Norfolk, VA 23551-0001. Posted 05/18/00 (D-SN456249). (0139)

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