Bureau of the Census, Procurement Office, Room 1541, FB#3, Washington, (Suitland, MD) DC 20233

70 -- SAS SOFTWARE POC Patti Becker, 301/457-1864 The Bureau of the Census has a requirement and intends to negotiate with the SAS Institute, Inc. of Cary, NC, on an other than full and open competition basis for the following proprietary software licenses for the period October 1, 1995 - September 30, 1996 with the option to extend for four additional 12 month periods: All current and future SAS Institute, Inc. software products contained in the integrated suite of products known as the SAS SYSTEM and also, System 2000 DBMS software for two UNISYS mainframes. The SAS System currently includes but is not limited to: 1) Fourth generation language for data management analysis and report writing (Base SAS); 2) Individual interfaces that provide direct and transparent read/write links between the SAS System and a variety of database management systems (SAS/ACCESS); 3) Object oriented applications development environment for building highly interactive and intuitive applications driven by graphical user interfaces (SAS/AF); 4) Point and lick, menu-driven interface to many of the SAS System tools, i.e., data analysis, report writing, etc. (SAS/ASSIST); 5) Integrated financial consolidation and reporting capabilities into the SAS System, including multi-dimensional spreadsheet interface, interactive, integrated graphics, etc. (SAS/GRAPH); 6) Client server computing within the SAS environment supporting a variety of advanced communications, protocols, enabling clients running in the SAS environment to establish communications with one or more SAS applications or programs running in remote environments (SAS/CONNECT); 7) Data management, analysis and presentation system designed to facilitate the operation and performance management of centralized and distributed systems (SAS/CPE); 8) Portable natural language interface for querying and reporting information contained in any data format accessible by the SAS System (SAS/ENGLISH); 9) Object-oriented development environment for creating and maintaining highly intuitive enterprise information systems (SAS/EIS); 10) Integrated capabilities for time series analysis and forecasting, econometrics and system modeling, and financial analysis and reporting (SAS/ETS); 11) Facility for interactive data entry, editing, browsing, retrieval and letter writing (SAS/FSP); 12) Interactive tool for display and analysis of spacially related data (SAS/GIS); 13) Information and presentation color graphics capabilities to produce a wide variety of business charts, plots, maps in a variety of colors and patterns (SAS/GRAPH); 14) Interactive matrix programming facility for sophisticated data analysis and manipulation (SAS/IML); 15) Data exploration and analysis with ability to examine distributions and explore data through interactive histograms, box plots, scatter plots, and 3-D rotation plots (SAS/INSIGHT); 16) Guided data analysis for meeting day-to-day analytical and data presentation needs of scientist and research engineers (SAS/LAB); 17) Project optimization and decision support capabilities for operations research and management science applications (SAS/OR); 18) Clinical data review system for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries (SAS/PH- Clinical); 19) Quality management and process improvement for establishing statistical quality control and reducing variability (SAS/QC); 20) Multiple user access to read, write and update the same data sources concurrently (SAS/SHARE); 21) User access the SAS System within IBM's CICS environment (SAS/SESSION); 22) Data visualization and modeling allowing users to create, analyze and modify geometric images representing multi-dimensional data (SAS/SPECTRAVIEW); 23) Statistical capabilities for regression analysis, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, multi- variate analysis, cluster analysis, survival analysis, psychometric analysis and nonparametric analysis (SAS/STAT); 24) Users ability to extend the capabilities of the SAS System by allowing them to write their own special procedures, proprietary routines for accessing internally developed data bases or libraries of specialized routines (SAS/TOOLKIT). The SAS SYSTEM suite of products may be deployed on any owned or leased, current or future Bureau of the Census SAS System compatible platform. System 2000 DBMS software will be deployed on two UNISYS 1100/90 mainframes. The requirement also includes documentation, training and technical support. It is the Government's belief that only SAS Institute, Inc. can provide the required software and related support services. Interested firms having the ability to furnish the above described products should submit capability statements, product information and pricing information to the above address to the attention of Patti K. Becker within 45 days of this notice and reference 50-YABC-5-66009. No telephone requests will be honored, see Note 22. (0023)

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