Sandia National Laboratories, Attn: James Eanes, MS 0218, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0218

70 -- WORKFLOW SOFTWARE POC Grant Claycomb, phone no. (505) 845-8808 or by fax at (505) 845-9512. Responses to this notice will be used to develop a source list for a Request for Quotation (RFQ) which we anticipate will be issued in mid 1995 for a Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) procurement. SNL is one of the nation's largest and most diverse research and development laboratories. Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, manages and operates SNL for the United States Department of Energy. Sandia's mission is to provide scientific and engineering solutions to meet national needs in nuclear weapons and related defense systems, energy security, and environmental integrity, and to address emerging national challenges for both government and industry. Sandia is also developing a manufacturing role as it assumes increasing production responsibilities for non-nuclear components. Sandia is interested in looking at alternatives to provide electronic workflow functionality within a client/server distributed computing environment. Desired electronic workflow functionality includes: transaction routing, transaction approval/disapproval/delegation of approval, notification/ confirmation of required actions, transaction tracking, version control, audit, and reporting; user autehntication and authorization through a single user logon provided by Kerberos-based security routines, or integrated with locally-installed Kerberos-based security facility; scaleability to a large client base; and TCP/IP network compliance. We are interested in modern, integrated, application-independent, turn-key workflow products that interface with our business applications in areas such as: Manufacturing; Acquisition & Materials Management; Financial; Program/Project Management; Human Resources; Payroll; Facilities; Logistics, including Property Management; and Environmental Safety & Health (ES&H). Sandia's business processes operate under the general constraints imposed on federal contractors through flow-down requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cost Accounting Standards, OMB regulations, and other requirements. The following is a summary of the Sandia Information Architecture that is being put into place. The environment under which the desired workflow solution would operate is Open environment client/server. It is a 3-tiered (presentation, function, and data layers) implementation; Multiple, open systems desktop environments, Windows, Mac and Unix, integrated with Mosaic viewers and personal productivity tools (word processor, spreadsheets, graphics packages); Integrated with e-mail; Integration with and support for electronic commerce: EDI, electronic forms, and workflow; Integrated relational data base and data warehouse with fully documented data base schema; Application development tool set; Transaction processor plus batch facility; and Support for configuration management and automated software distribution. Interested suppliers of workflow software who can address our workflow needs within the architecture discussed above are invited to furnish five (5) copies of a written response to this notice to Sandia within thirty (30) calendar days from the date of this CBD notice. The response should include a description of the supplier's ability to meet the needs discussed above as well as providing information on: Assistance in contacting and visiting clients with business needs similar to Sandia'a who have implemented the supplier's workflow software; Typical timelines and resources needed for implementation; integration/implementation strategies; Training, support; Security issues; Operating considerations (also internal people resources needed); Options for tailoring the workflow application and impact on maintainability; and, Integration with other vendors' application software. Supplementary information that the supplier may wish to provide could include user documentation, price lists, installation manuals, periodical articles, and other product evaluations. Any information furnished should NOT be company sensitive or proprietary. Submit all documents to Sandia National Laboratories, ATTN: James Eanes, MS 0218, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0218. (100)

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