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B -- EXTERNAL ASSITANCE DATA CAPTURE, MACHINE TRANSLATION, AND POST-EDITING CONTRACT SOL F33600-00-R-00075 DUE 073000 POC Contracting Officer is: Harry Oeters Contract Negotiator is Bettina Berrien,E(937) 257-7944 ext: 4543 WEB: 00R00075-eXTERNAL aSSITANCE dATA cAPTURE, MACHINE tRANSLATION,, http://www.pixs.wpafb.af.mil/pixslibr/00R00075/00R00075.asp. E-MAIL: Bettina. Berrien@wpafb.af.mil, Bettina. Berrien@wpafb.af.mil. Background "17. The National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC), Wright-Paterson AFB, Ohio is contemplating a five year single award contract to provide NAIC with translations of scientific and technical information from several foreign languages into English. The requirement levied on the contractor is to provide either (1) data capture of hardcopy text and subsequent machine translation and post-editing (2) or post-editing of digitized files either created by NAIC or commercially procured and residing on a CD. Post-editing my encompass a range of options. At a minimum it would be simple translation of not found words, but it could involve very careful editing so that the text is highly accurate and readable. The work will either be performed at NAIC will provide the hardcopy text information and software required to perform the work or a CD with the digital textual and graphic files and the software required to perform the work. The contractor will be required to provide the hardware needed to host the software of use the CD. Products provided by the contractor from a contractor facility will be in standard word processing format on a CD. This translation effort will primarily entail the processing of open-source foreign language material; however, translation of classified material (Secret and Confidential) will also be required. The material to be translated may consist of journals, books, monographs, and various types of technical documentation. The quality of the material may vary substantially. The anticipated translation volume is unknown, but may vary from 1 Million to 20 Million foreign words. The four languages primarily involved will be: Chinese, Russian, French, and German. Secondary languages are Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. Potential sources must provide: (1) evidence of previous experience or high familiarity with digital input of foreign languages, including foreign language OCR packages, experience in machine translation concepts and the use of translators as post-editors; (2) inhouse computer expertise for establishing an input/machine translation environment; (3) evidence of the ability to obtain Secret personnel and facility clearances in accordance with the Industrial Security Manual (DOD 5220.22M) by contract award; (4) evidence of TEMPTEST capability; (5) demonstrate the ability to perform 51% of all work to be levied under this contract. All responses will be evaluated against the criteria listed in this announcement. Limit responses to five pages or less. Foreign participation is not authorized. Interested sources should submit their response within 30 days after publication of this synopsis. This acquisition has been designated a small usiness set-aside. An Ombudsman is to receive and communicate serious concerns from potential offerors, when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his concerns during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. Potential offerors should use established channels to request information, pose questions and voice concerns before resorting to use of the Ombudsman. Routine communication should proceed to Mr Harry Oeters, Contracting Officer (937) 257-3215 ext 4549 and Bettina Berrien,Contract Negotiator ASC/PKWRB WPAFB, OH 45433-6503. Bettina.Berrien@wpafb.af.mil or Oetershm@pkwsmtp.wpafb.af.mil. The ombudsman is Mr. Stephen J. Plaisted, ASC/SYI at (937) 225-9095, stephen.plaisted@ascsy.wpafb.af.mil " Posted 06/30/00 (D-SN470685). (0182)

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