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J -- LICENSE FOR MIGRATION OF SAS SOFTWARE MODULES FROM MS-DOS TO WINDOWS SOL DAKF49-95-R-0005 W45MW2-5046-NX08 DUE 051595 POC Contract Specialist, JOAN MUNIZ, (210) 221-5366, Contracting Officer, THURMAN D BURTON, (210) 221-4807 This is a notice of intent: The Government intends to negotiate a Contract with SAS Institute Inc., under the Authority of FAR 6.302, for licensing of SAS software modules. SAS Institute Inc., certifies that it is the sole source for the Institute Program Products, and is the only distributor of SAS Software in North America. Further, the Institute Program Products are a proprietary development and constitute a valuable work product in the form of trade secrets, know-how, and confidential information which is the exclusive property of the Institute. The regional sales manager is Mr. Scott Turman, 11920 Wilson Parke Avenue, Austin, Texas 78720-0075. BACKGROUND: The mission of the United States Army Medical Department Center and School (AMEDD C&S), Center for Healthcare Education and Studies (CHES), is to conduct, on a worldwide basis, the AMEDD study program of the Surgeon General and to monitor and support analytical and technical studies expertise in the areas of workload measurement. Included in this mission is the formulation and maintenance of the Triservice CHAMPUS Statistical Database Project (TCSDP) and maintenance of the central design activity specifically for the Medical Analysis Support System (MASS). The MASS is an interface to the TCSDP. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT: The Medical Analysis Support System (MASS) is written entirely in the higher level software language,(SAS). SAS software is an information delivery system designed to meet data access, management, analysis, and presentation needs. Currently it requires migration of seven SAS software modules from MS-DOS to Windows: SAS/BASE, SAS/AF, SAS/ASSIST (with source code), SAS/FSP, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT, and SAS/CONNECT. This is only a notice of intent, not a notice(0088)

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