SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Request for Information for Database Applications
- Notice Date
- 10/7/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, 366 CONS, P.O.Box 4037 366 Gunfighter Ave Ste 498, Mountain Home AFB, ID, 83648-4037
- ZIP Code
- 83648-4037
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-AEFB-RFI-03-0001
- Response Due
- 11/7/2003
- Archive Date
- 11/22/2003
- Point of Contact
- Mrs Terry Oakland, Contract Administrator, Phone 208-828-3108, Fax 208-828-4031, - Aubrey Coyle,Jr, Contracting Officer, Phone 208-828-3103, Fax 208-828-6486,
- E-Mail Address
-
terry.oakland@mountainhome.af.mil, Stu.Coyle@mountainhome.af.mil
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION DRAWING PACKAGE AVAILABLE. This is a request for information only as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)15.201(e). The government does not presently intend to award a contract, but wants to obtain price, delivery, other market information, or capabilities for planning purposes on commercially available software database applications. Responses to this notice are not offers and will not be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. The Air Expeditionary Force Battlelab (AEFB), Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, is planning to conduct a study that will evaluate commercial options to solve the following problem: Currently several components of the United States Air Force use a data system built with Microsoft Windows Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and Crystal Reports. In deployed operations, databases residing on the host server can be replicated to a mobile device and updated offline. These same databases are updated on the host server in parallel. This parallel update could cause a conflict problem if the offline device attempts to update the databases on the host server. Currently, the Visual Basic and Access suite cannot perform a sophisticated case-by-case basis update of individual data cells using two versions of the same database -- it can only query the user to use 1) the database version hosted on the server, or 2) the one being offered by the offline device. The AEFB is interested in Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products that could be used as-is to solve this problem. The AEFB is seeking the following specific information from industry representatives: 1. The manufacturers suggested retail price for the commercial product. 2. The name of distributors who could sell to the Government. 3. The degree to which the product can meet or exceed the capabilities needed for the above problem. 4. The availability of any classroom training that could be purchased to obtain proficiency on the product, and its price or price range. 5. Your interest to demonstrate your product using dummy data the AEFB provides (if this is requested by the government, the contractor will be required to sign a Vendor Demonstration Agreement). Requested information must be submitted NO LATER THAN 7 Nov 03 to Major Michael Schlacter, Air Expeditionary Force Battlelab, 360 Gunfighter Ave, Suite 1, Mountain Home AFB, ID 83648. Early submittals would be appreciated. Major Schlacter can be reached at (208) 828-3541. A formal solicitation MAY NOT BE ISSUED as a result of this RFI. Information provided may or may not be included in a formal solicitation. The USAF will not release any information -- marked with a Proprietary legend -- received in response to this RFI to any firms, agencies, or individuals outside the USAF without written permission in accordance with the legend.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Mountain Home AFB, Idaho
- Zip Code: 83648
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 83648
- Record
- SN00448787-W 20031009/031007213058 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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