Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, Code 220000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

70 -- SOFTWARE AND MAINTENANCE-RFQ CANCELLATION AND SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT SOL N68936-00-T-0167 DUE 063000 POC James L McCormick, Contract Speicialist, (760) 939-7953, Theodore W Fiske, Contracting Officer, (760) 939-8182 Amendment 0002 to Request for Quotation (RFQ) N68936-00-T-0167 for software and software maintenance. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake, CA, seeks a more thorough understanding of the capabilities of commercially available financial management software. To that end, NAWCWD is taking the following actions: (1) RFQ N68936-00-T-0167 for DIFMS software and software maintenance is hereby cancelled. (2) Potential sources are sought for software and software maintenance for the Defense Industrial Financial Management System (DIFMS). The Schedule Number for this Sources Sought announcement is N68936-00-R-0006. This is NOT a Request for Proposals, it is a "Sources Sought" announcement issued only for information and planning purposes to identify potential sources for the acquisition of these products. Information submitted by interested parties will be used to assist NAWCWD in its survey of the commercial marketplace. Unless they wish to update their original responses, respondees to the first announcement appearing in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) May 25, 2000 and Amendment 0001 appearing in the CBD June 8, 2000 need not resubmit a statement of interest and capability, since the original responses are already on file. The Government's requirements are as follows: Software for Microsoft NT server; software for web server; viewing software license for 250 concurrent users for internet and desktop viewing; 50-user license for analysis; 10 days on-site support; 1 year software maintenance for first year; option for one additional year of software maintenance. Software capabilities shall include but are not limited to the following: Retain the original format of each document i.e., the original document will not be converted in any way in order to store the document; restrict any modifications to the original document, i.e., safeguard and guarantee the integrity of the original source data; no document-embedded security rules i.e., security rules can be applied but should be independent and not embedded in the document for which those rules apply; does not store archives in a proprietary RDBMS; complete server transparency, i.e., enables a document to be located and retrieved without the user knowing where it is stored while providing platform independence by allowing users to simultaneously view documents on multiple servers in multiple formats, including character, laser print-format, or image; extract specified fields from multiple original DEPCON files and PDF-formatted documents and sort, perform arithmetic calculations, graph, and analyze the extracted data; save extracted data into a native XLS format without any customer code, additional user manipulation, or the aid of Excel wizards; FAX directly from the desktop; download and print a single page from the browser without having to perform the action on the entire document; use all Windows utilities i.e., cut, paste, find, etc.; and index documents in any way i.e., provide the ability to index documents independent of the document or server, regardless of format, across varied retention periods, in a virtual format, for example, provide the ability to create a virtual folder that archives Word, Excel, PDF files and text reports where each document could have a different retention period and be archived on different media, but could still be retrieved by a single set of indexed criteria. Due to budgetary restraints, total cost may not exceed $500,000.00. The contractor should appropriately mark any data that is proprietary or has restricted data rights. Responses should be sent by mail to Commander, Code 220000D, Building 982 Bowen Ave., NAWCWD, China Lake, CA 93555-6100, Attn: James McCormick; by facsimile to (760) 939-3095, Attn James McCormick; or by e-mail to mccormickjl@navair.navy.mil. Interested parties are encouraged to provide an on-site technical presentation/demonstration. Those interested parties wishing to schedule a presentation should contact Roy Dyarman, Code 76E000D, area code (760) 939-2119, e-mail dyarmanre@navair.navy.mil. Presentation content should include software licensing structure, pricing structure, and a non-binding estimate of approximate cost. At this information-gathering stage presentations are not expected to exceed two working days. Closing date and time for this Sources Sought announcement is June 30, 2000, 3:00 p.m., PDT, after which no responses or requests for presentation/demonstration scheduling will be accepted. The Government will not pay for any effort or materials expended in responding to this announcement. All information submitted shall become the property of the Government. This announcement does not obligate the Government to issue a solicitation or award a contract for any items for which information is voluntarily submitted for assessment. Posted 06/15/00 (W-SN465131). (0167)

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