U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, ATTN: SMDC-CM-CN, PO Box 1500, Huntsville, AL 35807-3801/106 Wynn Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-1990

A -- DASG60-97-0092 -- COMMAND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CIMS), OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENTS SOL DASG60-98-R-0001 POC Deborah Teague, Contract Specialist, SMDC-CM-CN/Linda N. Bentley, Contracting Officer, SMDC-CM-CN, (205)955-1187 The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) has a requirement for operation and maintenance, as well as development, implementation and integration of technology enhancements to its Command Information Management System (CIMS). The CIMS is the total enterprise network of Automated Information Systems (AIS) supporting the USASMDC. The major components of the current CIMS architecture include, but are not limited to: 1) the unclassified USASMDC enterprise network; 2) the CIMS Oracle database management system used for managing costs, schedules, budgets, personnel, etc.; 3) the USASMDC classified network(s); 4) the CIMS-Library systems; 5) the Special Purpose Automated systems to include Internet and Intranet Web Sites; 6) the command standard IBM compatible personal computers (PC) supporting office automation applications and providing users access to the networks to include a limited number of special use Apple Macintosh computers with an Ethernet interface; and 7) the CIMS Help Desk providing day-to-day assistance to all CIMS users of all AIS equipment and services provided by the CIMS. The contractor is required to provide: 1) computer operations, hardware, and software maintenance for the existing CIMS; 2) acquire and integrate new hardware, software; 3) upgrade software applications for the existing CIMS; and 4) develop new software applications for existing and new hardware and software components, to include the new Defense Message System. The contractor must have professional experience in the operations, applications of software development, and maintenance of commercial off the shelf products to include: Novel Netware, Windows NT Server, Open-VMS, UNIX and UNIX derivatives; TCP/IP, Apple Talk, Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle Developer 2000, INTERSOLV PVCS Version Manager, INTERSOLV PVCS Tracker, Oracle SQL *NET Client Software, Oracle Discover 2000, HTML editors, JAVA, ActiveX server controls and search engine, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, the EZ-Imaging Scanner Library by ISIS, Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 97, Windows NT Workstation, the electronic Formflow system, Microsoft Office Professional, etc. The period of performance of this effort is potentially seven years. This includes a three year basic effort with two contract options, providing a two year period of performance for each option. The acquisition is not open to Allied Participation. The official copy of this solicitation will be provided electronically on the Internet at "www.smdc.army.mil". The solicitation can be located under "Business Opportunities" from the USASMDC Home Page. To view this solicitation, a user should have the Windows 95(tm)(i.e. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) the Adobe(tm) Acrobat (tm) version 3.0 or Adobe (tm) Reader, and WinZip (tm) version 3.1. The solicitation is configured for Netscape Navigator (tm) Version 3 with Microsoft Office (tm) plug-in viewers. The schedule of events for responding to this solicitation include:1) A letter of intent to propose shall be provided to the address above within ten (10) days from the issue date of this RFP so a date and time for the presentation of the oral part of the proposal can be scheduled; 2) The written Past Performance volume of the offeror's proposal shall be provided to the address above within thirty (30) days from the issue date of this RFP; 3) The Executive Summary, General, Resumes, and Cost volumes of the proposal shall be submitted to the address above within forty five (45) days from the issue date of this RFP. Presentations of the oral part of the proposals will begin within five (5) days from due date for receipt of proposals. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. No telephone inquires will be accepted. The RFP is expected to be available on or about 10 Nov 97. This acquisition is a small business set-aside. The SIC Code is 7379. This acquisition is not open to Foreign Participation. (0281)

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