US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), PGAS, Procurement Operations Division, 1325 East West Highway, Station 4301, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3283

70 -- QUICKIMAGE SCANNING SOFTWARE AND SCANNING SERVICES SOL 40-AANC-6-09213 POC Norbert F. Szymanski, Jr., CO; Leslie A. McDonald, Contract Specialist; 301-713-0839 The U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/Marine Chart Division intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with DATA DISC for a firm-fixed price contract for QuickImage scanning software and contractor-provided scanning services to convert all original storage files of NOAA Nautical Chart History records to digital archival media. There are approximately 83,000 pages of material currently in the storage files. All cartographic workstations within the Marine Chart Division operate on a Windows NT operating system. The software required must possess the following minimum salient characteristics: Windows NT Compliancy; the ability to scan and tag each page to provide customer-defined indexes to facilitate text searches on archived data; be able to offer a combination of image viewing, databasing and search & retrieval technologies, disc spanning and multi-page imaging. Once scanned and tagged, these images will be resident on manufactured CD-ROMs provided by the contractor. For research purposes, the images must be available for access by simultaneous users. Therefore, each CD-ROM must carry the QuickImage Search and Retrieval Reader user license in addition to the data sessions. Vendors must ensure that the scanning software be capable of achieving exact image capture of the original hardcopy source document. Hardcopy source documents are accessed daily to conduct marine research, including ongoing government litigation, and their physical absence from the SSMC complex files must be minimal. For this reason, it is desireable that the contractor be located within the NOAA Silver Spring Metro Complex commuting area. The data conversion (including contractor's pickup of government records and delivery of the deliverable products) must be completed within eight (8) weeks. All responsible sources shall respond by submitting a written narrative statement of capability, including detailed technical information and other technical literature demonstrating the ability to meet the above requirements, within l5 days of this notice, to the above address. The response must be sufficient to permit agency analysis to establish a bona fide capability to meet the requirements. It is requested that pricing data be included as part of the response, including terms and conditions. Do not request a solicitation, award will be made on a purchase order. Telephonic responses shall not be accepted. Fax responses will be accepted at 301/713-0806. Reference No. 96-09213 in your response. SEE NOTES 1 AND 22. (0103)

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