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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF JANUARY 9,1995 PSA#1258

Westinghouse Hanford Company, MSIN G3-16, PO Box 1970, Richland, WA 99352

42 -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (REI) SOFTWARE FOR CONTROL OF MAINTENANCE & INSPECTION OF INDUSTRIAL FIRE SYSTEMS, RFI H705582 Contact, Al Krogh, G3-16, 509/376-8979. Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC), the Management and Operating Contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office, Richland, Washington is requesting informaton from vendors offering software solutions for automated tracking and control of recall testing and maintenance inspection performed on large industrial fire systems. The software product should also support fire system equipment trending, system impairment and failure tracking, inspection and repair task scheduling, pre-defined and ad-hoc tabular reports. The preferred software product would be based on 4GL and client/server technology, include an intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) and support a 386/486 PC user platform running DOS 6 and WINDOWS 3.1. A multiuser DOS or WINDOWS based application located on an application file server would also be an acceptable solutiogn. The operating enviroment is a MS-LANMan wide area network running on OS/2, UNIX and WINDOWS NT file servers. The network protocol is NetBIOS/UB-XNS dual stacked with TCP/IP. Total application user base is 5 with potential for growth. The software product should support such functions as: the ability to capture, edit and report fire system maintenance, impairments & failures; provide for a number of user defined fields; provide 'memo' text fields; able to import and export data; able to generate electronic forms and charts; provide system user audit trail; support data recovery and archiving; provide application access security; automatically schedule fire system inspections, maintenance and repairs. WHC desires responses from suppliers of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) industrial fire system inspection and tracking software. An acceptable COTS product must provide some degree of flexibility needed to "customize" for site specific requirements. WHC seeks a COTS solution and is NOT interested in a custom application development approach. Experience with federal government agencies and government contractors is preferred. Information regarding a vendor's ability to provide life cycle support of their software products is desired. Periodic on-site software support and training may be required. Vendors furnishing the above requested information should include technical literature, product price lists for government customers, delivery schedule, GSA schedule if applicable, trial package availability (include non-disclosure and release forms and/or license agreements), current and former federal government clients/users, and any other pertinent information. There is no intent to award a contract on the basis of this synopsis, but to gather information. Please reference No. H705582 in all responses to this synopsis. Affitional information, if required, can be requested by contacting Mr. Al Krogh at (509) 376-8979. Written responses should be submitted within fifteen (15) days of publication to: Westinghouse Hanford Company, Attn: Mr. Al Krogh, MSIN G3-16, P.O. Box 1970 Richland, WA 99352. Our Overnight address is 2261 Stevens Drive, Richland, WA 99352. The fax number is (509) 372-3816. (004)

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