MODIFICATION
70 -- Search Broker Capability
- Notice Date
- 6/19/2002
- Notice Type
- Modification
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Acquisition Directorate, DITCO-NCR, 5111 Leesburg Pike Skyline 5, Suite 900A, Falls Church, VA, 22041-3206
- ZIP Code
- 22041-3206
- Solicitation Number
- NAICS511210
- Response Due
- 6/28/2002
- Archive Date
- 7/13/2002
- Point of Contact
- Charlotte Hunter, Contract Specialist, Phone (703)681-0923, Fax (703)681-1211,
- E-Mail Address
-
hunterc@ncr.disa.mil
- Description
- This action was originally published 28 May 2002 as Solicitation Number NAICS511210. All technical questions regarding this RFI should be directed to the Technical Point of Contact (POC): Ginny Parsons, Email:parson1g@ncr.disa.mil. Responses are due no later than 3:00 PM, EDT, 28 June 2002. Responses received after this date may be evaluated at the Government's discretion as time permits. As a result of vendor questions and to further clarify the Government's requirement, the following additional information is provided. Question: You want a broker to go across multiple databases. Is there any concern about the security of this type of operation? Answer: The broker will need to go across multiple sources (both structured and unstructured data). Security is indeed a concern (e.g., access control, transmission encryption). Question: Please provide projections as to project size/scope. How much data is the search component of your RFI needing to index? How large is the source pool of data? How many pages/documents overall would you estimate we need to serve? What is the estimated number of searches per day? Answer: The potential scale of the system may be a user community in the tens of thousands. There exist a variety of product collections with each collection containing hundreds of thousands of discreet products. These collections of documents will have a variable spoilage rate both between and within a single product collection. Number of searches per day will be variant. Estimates based on a user and product constrained implementation in place set a 30 query per second peak usage. Question: What does DISA want to do with schema modification? If you modify the underlying schema of a product, it is no longer a COTS application and could cause a large increase in on-going maintenance. Answer: DISA would prefer the ability to modify and extend the schema used to tag information products so that the system may be customized to the needs of the user community. Question: If DISA moves forward with this project, what time frame is the RFP anticipated? Answer: Unable to provide a timeframe at this time. Question: Is the general view that DISA is looking for a BIZ Talk platform with an application on top of Biz Talk? Answer: The scope of this research is unrestricted, and DISA has not committed to an application platform. Question: How can we obtain copies of the following documents, referenced in the RFI: Global Information Grid (GIG) Capstone Requirements Document (CRD, Information Dissemination Management (IDM) CRD, Joint Vision 2020? Answer: GIG CRD: http://www.dsc.osd.mil/gig/GIG_Arch_v.1.0_(Final)/GIG_CRD_(Final).pdf; IDM CRD: The GIG CRD now encompasses everything originally found in the IDM CRD. Joint Vision 2020: www.dtic.mil Question: Request for more information about the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). Answer: The SIPRNet is a government-owned TCP-IP network, similar to the Internet. Question: Can we have access to the [table of specific requirements the product must target] mentioned [in the RFI Description section]? It was not located on the FedBizOpps site with the RFI Synopsis. Answer: The information originally formatted in a table is provided in the "Description" section of the RFI under "Items of Consideration", and is enumerated 1-20. Question: Can we have clarification on the requirements listed as [they] relate to a search engine? (Reference: the capabilities identified for the IDM Metadata Search Engine in accordance with DOD enterprise service requirements). Answer: The requirements are a reflection of the complexity of the IDM project effort. Some of the requirements extend the classic definition of a search engine toward the information management goal of IDM. Identify how your search application and/or other corporate products meet the need expressed. Where multiple products are identified, describe the interface between the products and how/if they fuse to provide a greater capability. Question: What is meant by the following terms: 1. Brokered Requests. Search requests processed by other instances of a search engine or other search engines on the network. 2. Metadata Catalogs is a catalog of links to information products. 3. Source Attribution. With each returned search item, append a notation of the owner of the referenced information product. Question: (reference: "Items of Consideration", #10) "The product shall serve as an information source to other search products." What do "other search products" mean? Answer: In addition to the search capability requested, other search capabilities will exist on the network. These will exist in the form of COTS products as well as interfaces to COTS products. Question: (reference: "Items of Consideration", #11) "The product shall operate in the DII COE operational environment secured for use in the classified environment." What is meant by "DII COE...classified environment."? Answer: Instead, describe the capabilities of your product to include industry standard security mechanisms. Question: (reference: "Items of Consideration", #14) "The product shall provide the ability to use external directory services for authentication." What directory services are being used? Answer: Various directory services may be used. Please enumerate your capabilities. Question: (reference: "Items of Consideration", #16) "The product shall allow the import and modification of the schema used to characterize the information products." Please clarify "import and modification of the schema". Answer: The schema used to describe the information products must be open to extension and modification. Question: (reference: "Items of Consideration", #17) "The product shall allow policy based operations constrained by user, resource, and access." Please clarify "policy based operations". Answer: Prefer to leave this term open to interpretation by the responders. Question: Please clarify the various criteria that will be used to evaluate the Metadata Search Engine products for implementation of IDM enterprise services. Answer: No clarification will be given identifying the rating systems or scale used to assess these areas. Question: May we demonstrate our capabilities? The purpose of the RFI is to perform market research in obtaining information technology capabilities via contractor written capabilities summaries. Upon review of capability summaries submitted, the government may request those firms, whose capabilities are deemed most applicable to the requirements identified to provide a demonstration of their capabilities. Due to the anticipated high volume of response, the Government reserves the right to invite selected contractors to provide a demonstration. The Government is under no obligation to allow all contractors an opportunity for a demonstration. For those companies invited, it is the Government's intent to limit the time for each demonstration to approximately forty (40) minutes for the actual demonstration and another twenty (20) minutes for a question and answer session. All other information publicized in the original RFI remains the same.
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