NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE, CONTRACTING DIVISION, CODE N41, STENNIS SPACE CNTR, MS 39522-5001

70 -- INFORMATION HANDLING SOFTWARE SOL N62306-9154-IHSS DUE 070699 POC Contract Specialist, M.M. FLETCHER, (228) 689-8369 This sources sought announcment is issued for the purpose of identifying sources to provide Information Handling System software to meet the draft requirements described herein. NAVOCEANO requires an Information Handling System (IHS) to manage, organize, and retrieve equipment documentation quickly and easily across a network. There presently are nine (9) separate networks involved. One is the in-house network, the NAVO LAN. The others are on each of eight- (8) survey ships. One set of shipboard software for in-house management of the shipboard systems will also be required. The types of documentation to be handled by the system include CAD drawings, Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS), operation and maintenance manuals, instructions and procedures, reports, pictures, etc. Approximately 3000 drawings and 3000 pages of documentation will be stored on each shipboard system. The in-house system will be required to store all the information from each ship. Some duplication will occur, so the in-house systemcould be required to store up to 20,000 drawings and 20,000 pages of documentation. The NAVOCEANO LAN has many workstations with access to the LAN. Typically up to 5 users are expected to require access to the IHS at any given time. The eight individual shipboard systems will be used over the shipboard LANs independent of the in-house LAN. Each shipboard LAN has a small number of workstations, with typically no more than 2 users at a time requiring access to the IHS. Required salient characteristics -- In-house system must operate on a Windows NT 4.0 system, running Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, with 256MB RAM, and with the hard drives formatted as NTFS, be menu driven, be able to retrieve and display approximately 20,000 drawings and 20,000 pages of documentation in a format that provides zoom and pan. One in-house system will be required. Shipboard systems is to be able to retrieve and display approximately 3000 drawings and 3000 pages of documentation in a format that provides zoom and pan. A total of nine shipboard systems will be required. Both IHS systems are to be able to print whole or operator selected parts of documents and drawings; use "native" format of documents for storage (MS Word documents in .DOC format, AutoCAD drawings in .DWG, etc.); no conversion of documentation from native format is to be required to make documents usable in IHS; interact with other applications (e.g. MS Word, AutoCAD, MS Excel, CMIS, etc.) to allow editing of documentation by authorized users; and retrieve and display documents developed using the latest revision of application software that has been available to the general public for at least 3 months. When application software is updated after initial delivery of the IHS software, an update to the IHS software must be provided within 3 months following availability of the application software to the general public. Operate over a LAN. Allow for maintenance of documentation by NAVOCEANO personnel. Revision, addition, or deletion of documents must not require special operators or custom programs. Restrict user access to files except as authorized by a system administrator for editing, printing, adding or deleting. Allow users to quickly locate, view, and print documentation in native format without requiring the user to run the native application. Enable a user to search through all files for documents containing desired text, numbers, or combination of numbers and text (No requirement for a pre-established list of keywords or phrases). Allow new documents and files to be added at any time by authorized users. Automatically recognize and add to the list of accessible documents, new documents that are added to an authorized directory. Operate on any Windows 95 Pentium computer with 3 1/2" floppy, 1GB hard drive, CD-ROM drive, 32-MB memory, and SVGA monitor. Must require no new or specialized hardware. Have low life-cycle maintenance costs, for software and data. Include the following YEAR 2000 WARRANTY: The contractor warrants that each hardware, software, and firmware delivered under this contract and listed above shall be able to accurately process date data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including leap year calculations, when used in accordance with the product documentation provided by the contractor, provided that all listed or unlisted products (e.g. hardware, software, firmware) used in combination with such listed product properly exchange date data with it. If the contract requires that specific listed products must perform as a system in accordance with the foregoing warranty, then that warranty shall apply to those listed products as a system. Contractor is to provide with response, technical literature describing available product(s), including a description of modifications that is anticipated to be required to meet the NAVOCEANO specifications, anticipated delivery time, information on corporate capabities including background, business size, and previous customers (including company/activity names, points of contact, order/contract numbers/description of sale, telephone number) and estimated pricing for software meeting the Government's draft requirement. Responses are are to be submitted to the attention of Ms. Mona M. Fletcher, Naval Oceanographic Office, Contracting Division, Code N412, Stennis Space Center, MS 39522-5001 ((228) 689-8369, FAX (228) 689-8392, e-mail fletcherm@navo.navy.mil, by 06 July 1999. Posted 06/24/99 (I-SN346877). (0175)

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