USDA Forest Service, P&P, Room 706 RP-E, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090

67 -- PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT SOL 00-RGE-004 DUE 072800 POC Ronnie W. Bolden, 703-605-4778 E-MAIL: ERROR --, rbolden@fs.fed.us. USDA Forest Service intends to make a sole-source award to Red Hen Systems Inc. for Photographic Equipment. The USDA Forest Service Range Management would like to purchase equipment and software for video mapping for inventory and monitoring of the rangeland resources in the Forest Service. The video mapping is tied to a GPS signal, with the ability to put audio, video and GPS signal on the same tape. The ability to use a digital 8 video camera and produce video,audio, and images along with a GPS signal on a differentially corrected background map, along with voice recognition software, will help range share this information both inside and outside the agency.. Converting all the information collected to an .html format and being able to post to a web site will enable range management to cut costs and share our work immediately. The propriety pieces of a VMS 200 Video Mapping system are the VMS 200 Pro hardware box and three pieces of software, VMS Player, EZdiff, and Voice Recognition. This technology coupled with a digital video camcorder and video capture hardware enables the used to collect spatially-referenced video in the field and create spatial multimedia maps and documentation back in the office. Our VMS 200 Video Mapping Systems does not require use of a computer in the field, nor does it require that the equipment be mounted on a vehicle. The system is completedly mobile for all types of applications. All responsible source may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. The contracting office will accept request for solicitation no later than July 28, 2000 by close of business ( 4:P.M.) Through mail facsimile machine #703-605-5100. Posted 07/10/00 (W-SN473023). (0192)

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